currently

• saturday, 13th september
• week 2 of 5
• summer

calendar

• 3: charity shop volunteering
• 6: at dads
• 8: start college
• 12: charity shop volunteering, outside film, puppy
• 13: at dads
• 22: autumn start; september equinox
• 28: big brother's birthday
• 29: nephew's birthday
• 30: end of month

goals/tracker

• 5hr limit on phone
• don't bite nails
• brush teeth, day and night (y/y/y/y/y/da/...

focus

• read all of highway code. and then do it again.
• gift planning
• finish reading fight club

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• e-mail back
• glue doodles in sketchbook
• get hair bleach
• finish gem art
• get a library card

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• organise art wardrobe drawer
• organise wire drawer (plastic bags from packaging?)
• index coats
• delete accounts i don't use

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self-improvement

• be a kind, open, and compassionate person
• sleep consistently for a month (10/30)
• go one month without biting nails (10/30)
• live independently
  • perform personal hygiene and tidy room regularly (2/12)
  • be able to speak comfortably in regular situations
    • develop and use techniques that help with my anxiety
    • graded exposure plan; build up confidence
  • get a job
• exercise more
• eat healthier

antanaclasis

• noun: the repetition of a word within a phrase or sentence in which the second occurrence utilizes a different and sometimes contrary meaning from the first.

cosmopolitan

• adjective: containing or having experience of people and things from many different parts of the world.
• adjective: (of a plant or animal) found all over the world.
• noun: someone who has experience of many different parts of the world ; a plant or animal found all over the world.

guerrilla

• noun: a member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger regular forces.
• adjective: referring to actions or activi...

• Never let perfect be the enemy of better.
• Ask yourself if you're genuinely hearing someone before responding, and be sincere in your response.
• Do what is needed for the situation you are in—not the situation you wish you were in; not the one that is fair; not the one that is more comfortable.
• When you first fail to speak, don't panic. Take a moment and try again. Remember all the times you have spoke.

Challenges to an unhelpful thought

• Is there any evidence against this thought?
• Is there any evidence for this thought (based in fact)?
• Can you identify any patterns of unhelpful thinking?
• What would you say to a friend who had th...

• 1: full days, saw's ending
• 2: going out with everyone, laughing with my sister
• 3: the nice people at the charity shop, sites that have a decline all cookies option instead of making you deselect everything, good fanfics
• 4: the feeling of being Locked In, poppy (cat) hanging out with me while i'm in the bath, how my body feels in pjs after a wash ^_^
• 5: finding a more optimal way to code something, pizza for tea
• 8: competent teachers
• 9: days out with my mum, iced buns
• 10: menial tasks and sorting
• 11: kinder chocolate, toasties
• 12: when i spot the stain on a donated item instantly, that swanky 7up bottle