Monday 21st Oct

I had a funny old weekend - spent most of it in bed to be honest as my sleep pattern has gone a bit off the wall again - slept until after 3 today (but i was awake all night) hate being out of sync 

Well despite wanting to stay curled up under my duvet i did manage to do a few things yesterday, not that much granted, but it was more than i would have done if i hadn't written my positive steps.  

Todays goal(s) are to:

Tidy the house
Do some basic self care tasks
Organise my selling activities
Do something i enjoy

I have a few things i didn't manage to do yesterday so i will roll these over to today as well as add a few more things to work on:


Tidy the house

finish clearing kitchen table - done :)
clear the living room floor

I also managed to sort through a bag of medications and medical supplies - old stuff now bagged up to go to pharmacy :)

Do some basic self care tasks

have a shower - done :)
plan dinner - done :)

Organise my selling activities

parcel up ebay/fb sales 
gather up all listed items and put in one place - started 
try and max out ebay - 11 spaces to fill

Do something i enjoy

do some work on book
cut out more squares for india quilt
sort out wadding for christmas quilt - done :)

I also did a little bit of crafting - working on a lamp base :)


that seems like quite a lot to me right now so stopping there! 

As always, if you would like to join me in the positive steps challenge, just comment below saying what you would like to achieve today :)

Happy Stepping! xx

Welcome to the Positive Steps Challenge

How it works is easy - I set myself some small goals to work on in any given day.  The number of goals depends on just how i am feeling - on a particularly difficult day it could be just 1 or 2 goals, on a great day it could be 10 or 20 even.

During the day i will go over the goals for the day and mark off any i have achieved.

The most important part of the Positive Steps Challenge is it is about focussing on what i have accomplished during the day - it is not used to beat myself up with when i don't manage to do everything i have aimed for.  It is also about recognising the small steps i take towards my goals.

For example, for today my goal is to simply tidy my house - its common for people with depression to struggle with doing something like this because it can get to the point where it is completely overwhelming.

Today i feel overwhelmed by it, and usually this would mean i don't know how or where to start and i either do nothing or i do little bits of different things, but get no-where.  To make it easier, and much less overwhelming i will break that goal down into small steps:

Today i would like to:

wash the dishes - done :)
clear the kitchen table - started
clear the living room floor
put the clean washing away - done :)
hang up the washing that i did yesterday - done :)

Thats it, nothing more is going on the list for today.  My house may well not be tidy by the end of the list, BUT it will be better than it was before i started.

Later i will come back and mark off whatever i have managed to do.

I might also manage to do some other positive things today, and if i do i will add them below:

Listed some more items on fb selling page :)

If you would like to join me in the positive steps challenge, just comment below the current days blog post saying what you would like to achieve :)  Simples :) 

Happy Stepping :)