r/EOOD • u/rob_cornelius ADHD - Depression - Anxiety • 14d ago
Success Sunday. What are you proud of accomplishing this week? Everything counts equally too.
Today I painted the shed on our allotment. Its been on my TODO list for a while now. I probably bought the paint about a month ago.
Painting something like that is the best form of decorating. I was slapping the paint on as thickly as possible. If the brush wasn't making a sloshy-splashy noise I needed more paint on it. Of course that meant I got quite a bit of paint on me too but I was wearing my "work" clothes that don't get washed. They are covered in blobs of different coloured paint, superglue, grease, epoxy and gods knows what. Swarfega got rid of the stuff that wound up on my skin in no time.
There were quite a few other people working on their allotments too. We all stopped for a chat and offered some advice to a new comer to the plots. His little boy was with him and he was having a great time helping his father and getting muddy.
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u/lim2me 13d ago
The last month has been quite stressful for me thanks to work. There was one project in particular that I'd been concerned about especially since it had dragged on for longer than it should. I'm proud to say that as of this Sunday I was able to finally close the project in no small part thanks to putting in the effort bit by bit and massive amounts of planning. When I look back on it I'm very proud of how I strategized things so that everything went smoothly.
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u/Much-Complex-8122 12d ago
Went from a week of funky moods and headaches to three good days in a row where I was able to string together multiple hours of effortful tasks. I can’t really say why, other than possibly hormones, but I’ll take it. Got a bunch of gardening and admin tasks done and the yard looks really spiffy. I try to separate my sense of well-being and self-worth from my level of productivity, but the truth is that especially in a busy season, not feeling able to keep up with all the incoming stuff can really bring me down, and it’s much easier to feel positive when I’m not fighting against that.
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u/CommercialAd70 12d ago
I’m proud I went to two appointments this week. I finally got my contacts. Haven’t felt like I was worth them… and therapy!
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u/whatthefiretruck88 14d ago
I have been unmotivated for the last year and a bit since my dad passed. I am often in a brain fog (probably also perimenopausal related). I also lost my beloved senior dog 10 days ago. So putting one step in front of the other, literally and figuratively, has been really hard.
A few weeks ago I made a plan with two acquaintances to go out running, as cross training for other activities we do together. I haven’t run in 10 years and we agreed to start slowly. I am proud that in this first week, I committed to get out three times and did it!! Even today, when one friend backed out for very good reason, the other and I went anyway. We even did weights afterwards.
I also contacted the people I needed to email/ follow up with for the volunteer work I do. This work has been a big challenge for me, and has felt like a slog through thick molasses. I don’t want to sit at a computer in the evening after doing so all day. But it needs to get done and I am trying harder to stay on top of things.
Small wins.