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innerstoryI often struggle with the mode of doing things to the point that I end up doing nothing. Its a really bad habit that I have traditionally gotten around by having a simple system in place I just commit to. For many reasons those systems have fallen away in recent years as I struggle to maintain any level of productivity. Over the last few months I have been trying really hard to get my act together. This now extends to my time in this community.
My post system for here needs to be regular, positive, productive, and frank. These reliable traits are the ones I personally celebrate the most and they are the ones I most struggle with very often. The following is how I will address these areas.
Regular: I do best with writing if I'm constantly doing it. I have a reminder to post here daily, but its not structured enough. My plan is to start something in the morning and add to it throughout the day. I rarely have the time or the gumption to just sit and write for 40 minutes these days anyway. My job affords time for personal projects and its high time I took advantage of that fact.
Positive: This is my life long biggest struggle. I have a very hard time being positive for its own sake. I tend to be a cynic, pessimistic, and introverted. I present well and am able to be a positive force, but in my own head its simply a mask I wear so that I'm not ostracized. As I have aged though, the negative impacts have started to mount in the form of depression and hopelessness even in the face of success. In my writing I am now adding a "negative first draft" that is written the way I naturally am to give voice to that part of me, but in subsequent drafts I am working hard to flip the narrative or at least remove negativity taking the attitude that if I have nothing positive to say, I probably have not much useful to say at all.
Productive: Productive is positive's less scary cousin to me. If I don't have good cause to be negative, but just cant muster positivity, I shoot for being productive. Personally, this could be doing anything that isn't sitting on my ass being hopeless. In writing, its about creating something that is useful to me and my own improvement or that maybe useful for whomever reads my posts.
Frankness: I really have no trouble with this, unless its about difficult topics. I need to work on being frank with myself, with topics I am uncomfortable with, and doing it in a way that others do not find off-putting.
The actual structure of post will center around my successes with a focus on sustainable change. Negative issues will only be engaged from the standpoint of how I addressed them, simply stating the problem is not productive. The main focus will be surrounding what I've actually done related to being kind to myself and actually adding to society.
This post really exists for me to refer back to in order to keep myself on track, but if you have found value in it that is great too!
My post system for here needs to be regular, positive, productive, and frank. These reliable traits are the ones I personally celebrate the most and they are the ones I most struggle with very often. The following is how I will address these areas.
Regular: I do best with writing if I'm constantly doing it. I have a reminder to post here daily, but its not structured enough. My plan is to start something in the morning and add to it throughout the day. I rarely have the time or the gumption to just sit and write for 40 minutes these days anyway. My job affords time for personal projects and its high time I took advantage of that fact.
Positive: This is my life long biggest struggle. I have a very hard time being positive for its own sake. I tend to be a cynic, pessimistic, and introverted. I present well and am able to be a positive force, but in my own head its simply a mask I wear so that I'm not ostracized. As I have aged though, the negative impacts have started to mount in the form of depression and hopelessness even in the face of success. In my writing I am now adding a "negative first draft" that is written the way I naturally am to give voice to that part of me, but in subsequent drafts I am working hard to flip the narrative or at least remove negativity taking the attitude that if I have nothing positive to say, I probably have not much useful to say at all.
Productive: Productive is positive's less scary cousin to me. If I don't have good cause to be negative, but just cant muster positivity, I shoot for being productive. Personally, this could be doing anything that isn't sitting on my ass being hopeless. In writing, its about creating something that is useful to me and my own improvement or that maybe useful for whomever reads my posts.
Frankness: I really have no trouble with this, unless its about difficult topics. I need to work on being frank with myself, with topics I am uncomfortable with, and doing it in a way that others do not find off-putting.
The actual structure of post will center around my successes with a focus on sustainable change. Negative issues will only be engaged from the standpoint of how I addressed them, simply stating the problem is not productive. The main focus will be surrounding what I've actually done related to being kind to myself and actually adding to society.
This post really exists for me to refer back to in order to keep myself on track, but if you have found value in it that is great too!
