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Small achievement you managed to do today....How did it make you feel? Did it help you feel better today?

Ggrand
Community Champion
Community Champion

Hi everyone..

Their are days when just getting out of bed is a huge achievement...Other days we can achieve things like washing up the dishes or clothes, sweeping the floors, mopping the floors..very mundane and automatic robot like chores for the mentally well...They do these chores without even thinking about them...for people struggling with their mental health..these are huge tasks...

Very often I’ll get my vacuum cleaner out to vacuum ...then it will sit their for days, me looking at it, walking over it...until I can get motivated enough to vacuum..after I do find the motivation to vacuum...I am pleased with myself...
Right now I have a small foot cycling peddle machine, sitting on my front veranda..I got it out last week..to start exercising..it’s still their, I’m still looking at it...My thoughts each night is I’ll use it for a few minutes tomorrow..

My car hasn’t been washed getting close to a year now I think...Today I did managed to wash it....and discovered that it has a nice shine on it.....I did it...I achieved something positive today..which made me feel better in myself...

Have you achieved a little something today...and how did it make you feel...If you want to share that achievement it might make other people a bit more motivated to achieve something they need/want to do..

Looking forward to hearing about your achievement....and how it made you feel..

Little steps and achievements can lead to bigger steps..and bigger achievements...

My kindest and most caring thoughts...everyone.
Grandy...

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I managed to remain calm when a person told me I had no right to have opinion about someone else. Person became very angry and out of character. I just remained c@lm @nd waked away. Then after we chatted .

hi guys

today i picked up clothes from the floor and put them in my washing basket

Guest_1643
Blue Voices Member
Blue Voices Member

hi ggrandy

i hate washing my hair and drying it as well

it's a lot of work!

Harpbird
Community Member
Having a sleep in, getting up to almost no flood water, in awe how fast it ran off last night.

Guest_1643
Blue Voices Member
Blue Voices Member

i cleeaned the floor in my bathroom

i couldn't be bothered with a mop so i cleeaned it with rags and just shuffld them around, and also wiped down th walls a bit with spray and a fresh rag

now i have to just throw away /cleaen the rags and hopfully the bathroom will look fresh!

Wish I had your energy Sleepy21, I used to clean my bathroom with rags too, the tiles come up much shinier.

Ggrand
Community Champion
Community Champion

Hi everyone...

I mowed my lawns today....without the catcher..much easier and lighter to push the mower....plus grass clippings going back into the earth......

Well done everyone...I think the bathroom is one of the hardest rooms to clean....after the kitchen...

Walking say for me is easy....but I do know for a lot of people it’s hard to do that...when someone is nasty to us....You done very good Quirky...

I had to wash my hair today after I mowed..it was mostly green with the grass clippings going everywhere.....Won’t straighten it tonight..will be hard to brush tomorrow morning 😣...

Harpbird....I think I will sleep in tomorrow....

Enjoy your evening everyone...Cheers to us all...🥛🥛🥛..

Grandy..

ecomama
Valued Contributor
Valued Contributor

Grandy, GREEN hair is in fashion atm lol... my youngest daughter's beautiful hair is now green and blue! and I helped her dye it lololol.

Ahem Grandy this was a "small achievement" thread and you go and MOW YOUR LAWN!
That's a thousand high fives there young lady lol.

Well done YOU!

My "small" achievement today was to be POSITIVE to one of the most negative people I've ever met. Well worked with is more accurate.
THE most negative person at work just GRUNTS when I say hello lolol! omg.
The lady comes 2nd.

Anyway - lady asked me how I was and I (BRAVELY) said "Happy happy".
She rebuffed but hey I said how I felt!

It's funny that she's so negative when she has an audience... when it's just the 2 of us, she's alot more pleasant.

Great achievements everyone!

Love EM

Guest_4643
Community Member

Not really an achievement in my eyes, but:

Contacted my Psychiatrist about something traumatic that happened online for me yesterday, haven't heard back yet but as the receptionist said, at least he's aware.

Guest_1643
Blue Voices Member
Blue Voices Member

good work all!!

well done on pushing urself that tiny bit - it is all amazing!!

Thanks harpbird and shelll - i am glad u can understand the difficulty sometims tackling the bathroom. I will try now to take the rags to be washed. It really helps to breeak things into teeny steps.