MOTIVATION CLUB

[tindercylinder]

Post your goals, post your progress, post your shame, post your encouragement. And whatever else might fit in here. Let's figure out how this is going to work!

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#SQUAD GOALS

[tindercylinder]

[tindercylinder]

Noelle's November Goals (as of Nov. 9):

-Finish JP Unit 5 + 6
-Finish at least 10 Sketchavembers
-Lose at least 5 lbs
-Read at least one book
-Keep my desk and bedroom floor from falling into chaos
-Don't forget to come back here

[kyaaa]

in the interest of just picking an easy list to see how this format might work, my immediate task list for tonight that I'm ALREADY procrastinating on

1. change into comfortable clothes
2. eat dinner
3. take out trash

TIME TO SEE HOW I WILL CHOOSE TO REPORT THIS!!! god I should be commenting on my rp journal I have way more icons

[tindercylinder]

THERE'S STILL TIME

DO IT

[imitations]

GOGOGO YOU CAN FINISH THESE

[nature_heart]

go GO

[imitations]

nolvember goals: destroy all sleeps (as of November 10th 2017)

- Sketch more for Conatus project; Red (done), Penelope (need more), Alan (haven't started)
- Brainstorm more for the upstart twins in Conatus
- Look into stuff about Thanatos and Hypnos
- Finish the Inferno portion of the Divine Comedy
- Start reading Lore Olympus
- Try to sleep before 11...
- Try tagging out in Recolle

[nature_heart]

BABE YOU KNOW I GOT YOU BACK srsly I love hearing about your thesis stuff

[tindercylinder]

You should totally put your thesis stuff somewhere we can all gaze at it longingly.

[imitations]

Today's update:

- Slept at 10.30 last night!
- Currently reading the 9th canto of Inferno
- Posted all of my Forest Covered stuff in one place, at last.
- Finalized some designs for Ellie and the upstart twins
- Sketched a bit of Alan Pretty much sketched more of him the rest of the night, expressions for him are ridiculously fun.

Stuff I failed
- Tagging: I logged into Juri's account for a brief second after I finished posting an art dump over at lifebotp then... Did everything but tagging, including watching an hour video of Pan Pizza's room tour which is just him throwing stuff and then I went rereading a fanfic. Had the spark for it honestly but then it disappeared in a flash and all I wanna do is art and do motorcity fanart.

liz's stuff for november

[nature_heart]

- Make Winter/Christmas cupcakes before the end of next week
- Prep for TWO cupcake jobs Thanksgiving week
- Finish Frankenstein and The Prince books.
- Continue to update cupcake Facebook
- Keep house in good order
- Christmas gifts by the end of this month

[tindercylinder]

So many cupcakes... YOU GOT THIS.

[imitations]

Oh man Frankenstein is a fun one from what I heard, enjoy that one! FIGHT ON WITH THE CUPCAKES, you got this down.

[caligraphunky]

Goals for tomorrow:

-Wake up when my alarm goes off instead of sleeping for an extra 4 hours again
-draft at least 4/19 of my ebay listings
-Clean the rat cage...
-Check if I can grab some more shifts at work
-Buy my mom's b-day present

BROADER NOVEMBER GOALS:

-CONTINUE RPG MAKER TUTORIAL (my two pet projects aren't going to make themselves...)
-Continue hunt for affordable job coach
-Get yonder ebay store up and running fully
-30 minutes of walking every other day (at least until my ankle stops twinging then bump it up maybe?)
-Continue reading Jazz (NO MORE LIBRARY BOOKS UNTIL I CLEAR OUT MY BOOKSHELF)
-Clean out my desk
-Get back into an RP rhythm or if I can't, finally retire.

[tindercylinder]

NO MORE LIBRARY BOOKS UNTIL I CLEAR OUT MY BOOKSHELF

Oh god. SAME. And then people keep asking me if I want books for Christmas. THE STRUGGLE NEVER ENDS.

[nature_heart]

Sounds like you have a lot of opportunity here. Especially the eBay store...If you're getting a job coach, I really do hope it helps you!

[imitations]

You have a lot of opportunities up. And yeah, tutorials are usually the boring part, but it pays off when the project starts. I'd love to hear more of your pet project!

[caligraphunky]

UPDATE:
-B-day presents are happening Saturday, because the family is coordinating because there is "hard to buy for" and then there is Nightmare Mode, and guess which she is.
-A lot of the Ebay pictures turned out blurry and washed out, which I couldn't see until they were full-sized. NOT IDEAL. I will keep writing copy until I have it in me to spend another 2 and a half hours taking pictures.
-Day 1 of sleep schedule: kept to!
-Add on: change out my lj icons, most of these suck. Do general icon coms still exist on dw or is it all tumblr now?

Anyway, how about them personal systems

[tindercylinder]

So just before September I got pressured into the Bullet Journaling thing and surprisingly, I didn't just forget all about it a week later like I do with most planner/journal/lists. I have no idea what happened there, but I'm not going to complain. (If you happen to miraculously come across a dotted grid journal in a dollar store it's worth giving a try.)

Anyway, I made myself a daily schedule and a "don't break the chain" for art and Japanese in there and managed to stick to it pretty solidly for a little while. I've fallen off my own wagon since then but it's been good for keeping track of my personal to-do lists and stuff, too! I still forget things, but far fewer than I used to. Probably.

Part of the reason I stopped adhering so strictly was due to not having any kind of reward system that I cared about enough to try to earn, as I whined about in the plurk that started all this. But after thinking it over tonight I am having some thoughts...

-Public accountability: This comm. I can gloat about what I manage to do or else wear a cone of shame if I don't. I'm the kind of person that this is probably going to help a lot.
-Rewards?! Witholding Ososan from myself sounds like a good motivator, but I'm not sure if I should only reward myself when I get all the big tasks of the week done, or every goal of the week done, or what... Also trying to think about different levels of rewards for a good month/not breaking either chain for a certain amount of time. I shouldn't go for anything food based, but I can't really think of other inexpensive/free things that would work. Also, trying to figure out how forgiving to be over bad fibro days. Actually bad ones, and not ones where I can still do at least a little bit at a time. >:| Keep it honest, me.
-MONEY? Hey Noelle you massive tool did you know that if you make art and improve at it maybe you can profit off it too? Huh? Why don't you do it already.

I dunno! Blabber about your personal systems a little here, if you want.

[nature_heart]

Honestly, having a rewards system is a good step to getting yourself to keep at it. Like, I used to plan trips to Starbucks while I was at college if I worked on enough of my studies. I was fairly broke, so they weren't very frequent trips. Which made them worth it. However, if you're looking for non-food and inexpensive based stuff...maybe a few of us could get together a movie night on a semi-weekly basis? Like, we pick a movie and set a date. That way, you can put all what you need to do...and then reward yourself with good old fun quality time with pals.

[imitations]

I think the reward system is always ideal or the best go-to, just depending what kind of reward it is. Different levels of rewards work! Smaller or weekly stuff get say, like an hour of a video game while a bigger reward can be a movie night, like Liz said.

On the art thing, maybe we could hold like a practice day in a week and critique each other's works? I find that working with someone or drawing together helps improving art.

Personal System: Be Better

[nature_heart]

This had been a rather roller coaster year for me, in good ways and bad.

So much good had happened, like getting my name changed and moving to a house I own and pay for. Yet I also hit a rather big existential crisis while I was under a lot of stress and pressure...which led me kind of down a downward spiral.

I plan on making myself say by the end of this year, that I've completely overcome this stage.

Already, I have seen a doctor about my anxiety and have gotten a treatment that has ACTUALLY BEEN WORKING, I have found a creative outlet that I can profit from happily on the side, and my career job has gotten to a new high.

Financially, I'm doing pretty good but I can always be better on my own lifestyle choices. I hope to one day grow confident enough to build my relationships and keep on self improving as I'm now growing older. Not just for me, but for my family and loved ones. Like you guys.

[imitations]

I'm cheering on your personal goal in self improvement! It makes me happy to know that making and selling cupcakes has been going well for you, seeing updates and new ideas you have for it is always fun.

Personal System (of a down)

[imitations]

Disclaimers: I don't listen to System of a Down despite proclaiming to listen to metal, I thought the name sounded dumb and thought it was a punk pop band.

2017 marks the year where things have really changed, I feel. I had an internship that often I forget it's not a full time job, my social life's been busy and lots of personal matters in-between. My two lovely but talkative nieces came to the world and I take moments now and then to babysit them. I've been gearing up on personal art projects and occasionally hit across an identity crisis regarding myself as an artist or not.

It's been busy but I've been having fun. It feels like I'm almost an adult, or something.

My organization's been all over the place though, I've had like a book to write down activity at work, a notebook formatted to a bullet journal for my project, a notebook to write down tags, a sketchbook that has random thoughts every now and then and a diary to write whatever I want instead of properly recording events. Writing downs manually is a soothing process and I love doing it, but rather convoluted that I separate things to separate books that also doesn't count Plurk and the app Daylio as mood trackers. Come by the new year, I'll just narrow down to a bullet journal, sketchbook and a diary. Once I ran out of pages for the diary however thoughts and recording events just be moved to the bullet journal too.

Reward system doesn't personally do me too good because I'd pause and question myself whether it's been sometime since the last treat or not. Maybe when the bullet journal happens I'll record my spendings and earnings so I'd feel less guilty of giving myself a treat. BUT, while working on my first game project, near the peak had been intense with school report and Comic Frontier that it became the decisive moment I hold off my birthday present until late into September to ask for a portable vinyl player. So the reward system on/off works, I need to like reevaluate it further and tweak it as I go.

With my internship ending mid December, that left me anxious this past few weeks. I love my job and the people there, but understandably on my plans for next year I couldn't go for full-time at least until late 2018. Needless to say though it's gonna be a lot of hermitting next year since I have plans to open up commissions and a small brand to compensate my lack of means to get funds on my own for this animation project. It's really about a good time to readjust and fix my system before I end up mostly binge reading fanfiction or watch anime.

I dunno what this will mean for RP in the mean time, it's all massive changes and reworking my schedule and life currently.

SPECIAL: Creative Goals

[caligraphunky]

If we're doin' this...Like DOIN' this, I might as well list some details of my creative endeavors, video game edition. Right now I've got two ideas that I can call together enough that I can post what they MIGHT be at this moment while I try to figure out how to start making them.

Thing number one: The thing I plan to work on first because it's smaller and less complicated. Here's what I've got so far:

Mrs. Bunny lives happy in the forest in her burrow with her husband, Mr. Bunny. One night, the Beaver family dam breaks and floods her home which washes all her furniture out! She can't move it all herself, but her husband is away so she must find someone to help! In her desperation, she trusts the wrong group of animals (birds, probably?) who steal all her stuff! Mrs. Bunny has to hunt down those animals and get her furniture back! ...But then, of course, it turns into a horror game when Mrs. Bunny chases one of them into a cave and then finds out that the forest has been corrupted in horrific ways by an eldritch abomination. She eventually beats it/convinces it to leave!

...And then the forest loses all of it's anthropomorphism, and Mrs. Bunny goes back to being a regular bunny and is eaten by a bear in the end.

I'll be honest: this was kind of inspired by an assload of totally non-scary Sonic creepypastas. Like...what would it actually take to make something like that effectively scary? Also, I had this idea WAY before I played Doki Doki Literature Club, but that game did galvanize some things about what is/is not scary for me...

Thing number second: I...really didn't mean for both of these to involve anthropomorphic animals. Guess I'm still just a fucking furry after all!

A human mage gets sent to an animal kingdom to help them with a plague that seems to be ravaging the land. Once they arrive at the castle, the Boar King drops dead. The Mage is suspect number one as far as the characters are concerned, but the player is given a handful of characters with motivation and method to kill the King and also the MC is being 100% framed...but by WHO?!?! And they must adventure with these characters in some capacity without really being able to trust them.

I'll be honest, the characters are the most developed part of this so far? The King is personable and likable but also wasteful and enjoys the royal luxuries more than keeping the kingdom functional. The Captain of the Guard (a goat) lived through the first king and thinks this one is a disgrace. The cook is a rooster who is overworked and anxious and close to his breaking point. His personal seamstress (a fox) expresses anti-royalty sentiments and tries to be sly, though she's more just forceful and bullying. His daughter seems to resent him for treating her more like a trophy then a successor to the throne. And then his owl advisor is just weird and off-putting and controlling.

This game has...gone through a lot of incarnations. First it was a murder mystery, than a traditional JRPG, then an adventure game, then like a Yume Nikki/IB sort of art game...when you don't know how to use your tools it's hard to know what you can do with them, and programming is so far out of my wheelhouse that I am more-or-less totally unmoored as of yet. It is probably so far out into the future that it'll go through 10 more iterations by the time I even start working on it, who knows!