• Connection to Others
  • Spend time with my family together and individually
  • Help my family out when they need me
  • Maintain healthy boundaries with my family
  • Have a healthy and loving romantic relationship
  • Build the foundations I need to become a foster (maybe adoptive) parent e.g. have a successful relationship, my own home, financial security and spend some time volunteering with kids e.g. Scouts
  • Seek out communities which feel safe and affirming
  • Build my social life around those communities - continue attending We Got You Boo events, as well as trying out other social groups e.g. ND Club and climbing socials
  • Find friends who want to go out for coffee sometimes or go for a walk or something
  • Work on developing better professional relationships (where I don’t feel like a kid)
  • Meet local people while travelling, listen to their stories and learn from their ways of life

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• Connection to the Natural World
  • Spend time outside every day
  • Wander off the track
  • Climb trees and rocks
  • Learn more about the things I see around me
  • Eat blackberries off the hedgerows and learn to forage mushrooms and things
  • Spend more time doing outdoor activities, especially paddleboarding and hiking
  • Buy only what I need
  • Be aware of the environment in my daily life
  • Reuse and repurpose things instead of buying new
  • Leave as little an impact on the physical world as I can
  • Dedicate some time and money to travel every year
  • See different parts of the UK
  • Travel to all 7 continents (Australia, South America and Antarctica to go)
  • Experience diverse ecosystems and natural phenomena
  • Climb more mountains

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• Creative Productivity
  • Create a working prototype for Caylex
  • Show Caylex at a game cafe or convention
  • Work on a diverse range of other creative projects which could be developed in the future
  • Pass piano grade 5
  • Go to live music events
  • Read often
  • Write more often in my free time
  • Develop fiction projects, especially The Ninth Sense and Good Influences, maybe also The Dreamers
  • Write at least one book from beginning to end
  • Create a ‘bible’ using quotes from my reading which reflect my personal philosophy
  • Gain confidence in sharing my ideas / creations with others

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• Freedom of Expression
  • Be confident in what I believe and comfortable with what I don’t know
  • Allow others to experience life however they want to, where their behaviour is not harmful to others
  • Live my own truth, being myself and living by my own values, regardless of what others think
  • Take time out for sensory seeking, hyperactivity and daydreaming (when safe and appropriate to do so)
  • Meet myself where I am, rather than holding myself to others’ standards
  • Work on expressing my ideas in different settings e.g. at work, socially etc.
  • Develop confidence in sharing my opinion and engaging in different conversations
  • Worry less about how people might perceive me and my ideas
  • Cultivate a more professional image

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• Freedom to Explore
  • Engage with interesting materials - articles, books, podcasts
  • Explore the world around me
  • Learn through the activities I do at work
  • Carry out additional research around areas of construction
  • Use travel as a means of learning about the world
  • Study more ancient history and learn more about how things work
  • Become fluent in Cymraeg
  • Try out new recipes often
  • Learn to climb more challenging walls
  • Go to new places, even if they’re not that far away
  • Try new things
  • Attend classes and conferences
  • Be open minded about different activities and ideas

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• Joy-Seeking
  • Love / enjoy as many things as possible
  • Experience those things as often as possible
  • Engage in comfort activities in order to wind down
  • Rewatch episodes of shit TV shows that make me happy
  • Stand barefoot in the grass
  • Listen to lots of good music
  • Play with cats
  • Have fun

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• Pacifism
  • Find courage in peace
  • Be respectful and kind to others
  • Treat all living things as I would like to be treated
  • Distance myself from negative topics and opinions
  • Learn to respectfully disagree with unpleasant opinions instead of becoming angry or upset by them

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• Personal Growth
  • Find strategies for becoming more confident in social and professional settings
  • Develop confidence in my ability to be productive and responsible at work
  • Use this to develop my career and in promoting myself
  • Get to know more people who I feel confident around
  • Put myself out there into more social situations
  • Make an earnest start at dating
  • Actually contact people instead of thinking about them
  • Learn to control overthinking about how people will perceive my actions and words
  • Get into the habit of texting / emailing people back as soon as possible
  • Continue working on knowing and understanding myself
  • Use yoga to help clear my mind and allow me to be present in the moment
  • Talk to people to gain different perspectives and help me work through different ideas

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• Personal Security
  • Keep track of my incomings and outgoings, preventing the latter from exceeding the former
  • Be able to afford my needs and wants
  • Invest in my future (saving for a house, future family, potential career moves, pension)
  • Increase my earnings
  • Budget for things I want to have (car, phone) and experience (travel, concerts)
  • Cultivate an environment in which I feel safe to be myself
  • Cut out things in life which do not make me feel safe
  • Have a place of my own and enough money to maintain it

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• Positive Health
  • Walk a minimum of 6000 steps every day
  • Spend more time doing adventurous activities
  • Extend my workout routine beyond walking and yoga
  • Try running
  • Do yoga at least twice a week
  • Keep myself nourished with healthy food, cooking for myself as much as possible
  • Drink more water
  • Keep up with daily tasks and positive self-care habits e.g. washing myself, brushing teeth, skincare, laundry
  • Know what’s going on with my body
  • Look after myself, particularly when I’m not feeling so good e.g. around my period or when I’m tired
  • Take the pressure off when I need to
  • Use the values throughout this list to help maintain good mental health
  • Don’t be afraid to talk about how I’m feeling in different situations