Doesn’t have to be a big thing! For me, I just managed to handle an entire move all on my own, without help from friends or family.
I finally got myself to work on voice training exercises at home 😌
That’s been something I’ve been struggling with just to start. It’s been almost two years now and I’m sick of boymoding. Kinda surprised nobody’s said anything about my breasts, because I don’t think I’m fooling anyone anymore. You can do it!
Thank you! I believe in you too! I was boymodeing until verrrry recently. I was closeted for years. Never too late though, youve got this 🤗
I’ve been on and off voice training for ages. It really makes my dysphoric and I can’t manage to do it consistently :(
🫂 I know what you mean. I hate listening to my recordings 😔. I hope you’ll be able to do it someday. I believe in us <3
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Well done, keep that momentum up! Improving oneself is an investment in the future that’s always worthwhile
Congrats!! I’ve been procrastinating for 2 years, maybe it’s time to start too.
I responded to someone’s call for help (assistance, not life-critical), even though I had just gone to sleep. Got up, dressed, went out into the world, and met someone to get tools to help someone who still relies on me.
Yay, me. :)
You’ll be able to carry around that warm fuzzy feeling from helping someone in need for quite a while - well done!
Yay for helping a friend in need!
Do you also have this weird thing that helping others is much easier than doing something for yourself?
It’s tough not to get annoyed at those late night calls, but you’re a better person for it.
Um, well, helping with Beehaw. Many projects I’ve seen to fruition that are pretty cool like docs.beehaw.org and the demographics survey.
Every time I see your username I think to myself “I’m glad he’s here working to make the site better!”
As someone who is only online sporadically, thus cannot contribute, I salute you!
Thank you!
There’s so many other people doing work though! Alyaza, Gaywallet, Chris and PenguinCoder do a lot of work. There’s also other people working on the backend and all our amazing mods. I’m really grateful to be around such great people.
Yeah, it looks like a good team, and I’m glad you’re a part of it too :-)
Redditfugees really appreciate your efforts ❤️
I applied for a great job that I’m definitely not qualified for, and I’m through the first two rounds of interviews. I didn’t even think I’d go to the first interview purely because of my agoraphobia, so I’m proud of myself for pushing through it.
Fing imposter syndrome! Good luck!
Wrote a short story I was really happy with. I mean, I’m always writing something, but I’m usually kind of ‘meh’ about what I come up with. Every once in a while, though, I write something and I just know that it’s good, like I can feel it, and I can say to myself, ‘yeah, this is really hitting the mark.’ As a writer, I’m always chasing that feeling. It’s like a drug. So last night I wrote 2,000 words of a new 3,500 word story that just came to me, all in one shot, like a vision, and I’m so enjoying how this one is coming together.
That sounds very rewarding (coming from someone who sometimes thinks about writing, though I lack the commitment).
Are there any Lemmy communities for short stories where you can share it?
I just got hired! Just need to process some papers which will hopefully be quick but I just landed my first job!!
I’m so happy for you!
Nice! I hope it goes well and you learn lots of useful skills from it, I’m old and still use things that I learned from my first job
Congratulations 🎊
i built a rigid heddle loom and wove myself a scarf! it sucks and is super wonky looking but i love it, and its been neat learning about how weaving works and the history of textiles and all that junk. did you know that weaving is one of the oldest crafts in the world? we were doing it back in the paleolithic, like 27,000 years ago! its very neat. it took me like a month to build the loom, and a few days to weave the scarf, and its the first time i’ve felt this much consistent focus on a hobby in a long time. it also coincides with me getting new brain pills (and estrogen) that are working really well at restoring my passion for life.
Clothing is something I take for granted. That’s a really cool that you are exploring the craft, not only building a whole loom, but appreciating the history and context of this technology in humanity. Cool as hell
Awesome, well done! A photo of the scarf would be good to see
I’ve always wanted to try weaving 🥰 please post your projects and your process in the creative community so I can live through you 😂
I got a glowing review from work (I was promoted 6 months ago) by both my boss and boss’ boss. ’
I hate to admit it but it’s pretty amazing the impact on your confidence that feeling good about work can have.
WOW! That’s a pretty big undertaking to move by yourself. I’m teaching myself a new skill to change careers, although I haven’t gotten there yet, I’m proud that I’m taking myself seriously now.
Nice! Best of luck to you. :)
Switching careers is scary as anything, but well worth it … first careers are a matter of guesswork, but with more experience you can make good choices that really help. Keep at it!
I started processing trauma memories and working on maladaptive survival behaviors in January. Running and dissociating always seemed better for some reason.
I guess I was afraid I’d learn that I deserved abuse growing up. It turns out that it wasn’t about me at all.
Mindfulness practice has brought more agency and intention to my life. Despite this being the hardest and most painful thing I’ve done, it’s also been one of the most rewarding.
It is not as much as others, but:
- I actually submitted something that resembles a game, though, more of a prototype, to a lisp game jam that happened a while ago
- This time I pulled off in total, 60 hours of reading, books.
- I am still studying Japanese daily
- Still alive :D
Those are all nice things, the last one in particular deserves a lot of praise!
Those are brilliant achievements you should definitely feel proud! I wish I could get back into reading to that extent. I can manage an hour but that’s about it. Hopefully now online life is starting to slow down a bit it will encourage me to have more perseverance.
Ah. I do have similar issue, that usually, at once, I will struggle to read for over a hour. Thankfully, found a way, that works. 10-40 minutes reading -> 5 minute break -> 10-40 minutes reading of different book -> and so, loop this. And if I do this often enough, there will be times, where I actually do manage to somehow pull off more than an hour, without said break.
Anyhow, take your time :D, and make small steps. I myself, went from reading ~10h a month at the start of the year, to then 30h, and… the amounts that I am pulling off now. I believ in you
I played a concert with my orchestra today and absolutely nailed my solo.
wow, good job!! that sounds very nerve wracking haha
Everyone in this thread, you’re doing amazing things!
About 3 months ago I finally started HRT after several years of being too scared!
I passed my cell and molecular biology paper (which was pretty hard and mostly irrelevant to my consumer food sci degree ) and found out that the one paper I managed to pass during the year I was fucked up by SSRIs means that I’ve already met all the requirements for my minor!
What’s a consumer food degree like? What kind of stuff did you study/research?
So far I’ve mostly just been learning how food works at a chemical and biological level with a bit of food marketing/product development thrown in but in the next few years I’ve got a couple of sensory science papers, a decent bit of statistics, and a year-long product development project!