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Do you believe you can make positive changes in your life?

Yes, of course
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No, you must be joking
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Sometimes, if I'm feeling up to it
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Post by limestone » Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:16 pm

Is there something you want to change in your life?
If so, what's your action plan going to be? :uhhh:

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Post by sassy koala » Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:19 pm

I want to be something other than a secretary

my action plan is that in december I am going to take the LSAT and apply to Law School. If that doesn't work, then I will look into other types of education that I"m interested in and persue a Masters Degree in something (prob. psychology of some sort)

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Post by kazeldya » Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:33 pm

How bout "most of the time, but not always" b/c sometimes strikes me as meaning "seldom," and I want to say yes now but not all the time.
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Post by Alone » Fri Oct 01, 2004 10:09 pm

i voted sometimes..

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Post by Strange Glue » Fri Oct 01, 2004 10:14 pm

I definitely think I can make positive changes in my life. I can't change everything, of course, but I can always make changes to *something*. The capability to do it is always there (even if sometimes I forget :oops:).

Right now, I need to study more to get what I want. Yick. :-?
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Post by Nicksy » Fri Oct 01, 2004 10:59 pm

i have trouble imagining the future at all, so i cant really think of what to change because i dont know wat i'm aiming for.

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Post by gui hong » Fri Oct 01, 2004 11:10 pm

I've changed my eating habits and my housekeeping habits in the last 2 weeks :)

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Post by littlethings » Fri Oct 01, 2004 11:31 pm

Positive changes you say?

Ha! I'm soooo on top of that (for possibly the first time ever). What I plan to do this weekend:

1. Finish coping box that includes the following
a. origami paper
b. abridged list of coping mechanisms
c. mix CD of safe songs
d. hand bound book of safe quotes
e. poems and things worth memorizing
f. painter's tape for tying myself up
g. colored pencils (or crayons, whatever catches me in the store)
h. stationary (for writing myself/others letters)
i. sachet of hot chocolate
j. individual dose package of Advil
k. list of art projects I've been meaning to get to
l. any other little kids toys I find in store
m. photocopy from Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind about meditation.


2. Take all tools out of my purse and duct tape them together so it takes a long time to get to them. There is no way I could hunt down everything I've used to SI, but those tools are the most physically dangerous ones, and the only ones I use often.

I would have a longer list, but since number 2 is going to be so hard I'm going to stop with those 2.

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Post by Licentia Poetica » Sat Oct 02, 2004 8:32 am

Yes, of course.... if I wanted to and thought I deserved it :(
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Post by Seeshellz » Sun Oct 03, 2004 1:07 am

With me it's a constant stuggle to be healthy, with my bipolar. So I put sometimes because when I am really sick, I don't care, but when I'm just depressed my goal becomes to feel better and be someone in life.

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in the phase you may have just completed.

Maybe that's what it's all about after all..."

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Post by 8586 » Sun Oct 03, 2004 2:12 am

Is there something you want to change in your life? SI, most importantly, and not so much change things but accomlish dreams.
If so, what's your action plan going to be? Get out there and do my best at everything, and don't give up until I've got what I want. And for SI - try to stay positive and get help when I need it.
Cry as I may, but these tears won't wash you away...

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Post by kurdt_kobain » Sun Oct 03, 2004 2:29 am

I can't control my life. It always seems so out of control. I can't control it at all. How could I be expected to change it?
trying to follow in the footsteps of the masters,
but it's a lot harder than it looks because even though
they had the same size feet as us, they weren't looking
down the whole time while they walked to make sure
they were doing it right.
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Post by lazypirates » Sun Oct 03, 2004 3:09 am

:oops: :oops: love

Plan: Stop being such a doof.

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Post by mywildrainbow » Sun Oct 03, 2004 3:36 am

i'm done with cutting. i decided that 2 weeks ago and haven't cut since then.

my action plan: i started EMDR in therapy to help with flashbacks of past abuse and other distressing thoughts that make me want to cut. It really seems to be helping, even though I've only done one session thus far.
also, playing with play-dough helps. You can mush it and pound it and beat it and cut it...and it just goes back to its original form when you're done beating it up.
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Post by fairy_punk_princess » Sun Oct 03, 2004 5:37 am

my plan is to get out of bed and go into uni.
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Post by jollene » Sun Oct 03, 2004 5:39 am

i am trying my best-step by step.
i started going to the gym four times a week since may 2004 so i am doing ok. i am eating better-and losing weight. good.
trying to stay on my medication and trying not to feel the way i do sometimes. anxiety attacks are less frequesnt. i don't hate me, i more or less hate the fact that we are born into a world and a society with constructs that not all fall neatly into. i being one of them. resistance is futile-in one way or another. sigh. be machiavellian or you're skrewed!

i can't commit to much and i have problems making decisions but-i do know that i want to live and that i want to get into a graduate school!

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Post by angelic81 » Sun Oct 03, 2004 10:24 am

ok for me, I am going to stay on my meds and make sure I go to my pdoc appointments, might not sound like much but I have been struggling with my bipolar recently :(
luv kiara
reading this thread was so inspiring, so thankyou for all so far

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