Regular posts!

I am going to try posting on a regular basis. I'm not always so good with follow through so I'm not sure how consistent I'll be but I am going to do my best. I am going to aim for three weekly posts, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Learning the Basics will be Tuesday's post (first one to follow later today) and it will be me working my way through some of the links about emotional skills that ysabetwordsmith was kind enough to share a while back.

Thursday will be Language Time, me writing a small paragraph in French with an English translation. This is in an attempt to improve my French into something usable. Feel free to prompt for topics of interest and to comment on the posts in English or French. I will answer in whatever language you comment in, unless you ask otherwise.

Saturdays will be Fandom Discussion day and will consist of me talking about fandoms I enjoy. I will probably start with Marvel, though I may talk about others ocassionallly as well. Feel free to prompt for Saturdays as well, either with a fandom, a speicifc character or item in a fandom, or with a soecific topic about fandom in general that you want to see discussed.

I'm hoping I will be able to stick to my plan and get some good discussions going. If nothing else, this should help give me a reason to work on going through the links and improve my French.

Fingers crossed this goes well!

Learning the Basics: Change

Welcome to my first weekly post about Learning the Basics! Thanks for joining me on my journey to pick up skills that I'm lacking that I really probably should learn. Based on excellent earlier advice, I'm going to stick to picking one thing at a time so I don't get overwhelmed; I have a lot of helpful links to look through.

Today's topic was the Stages of Change. I had three links from ysabetwordsmith about this.

Stages of Change pictures

Stages of Change

Worksheet on Change

I found the second link most helpful because it described the stages as well as naming them. I think I am currently hovering between the Contemplation stage and the Preparation/Determination stage. I know I need to change things but it still seems like a LOT of work and I'm not entirely sure how to go about changing. I also need to think a little more about specifically what I'd like to change, instead of just "I need to change".

To continue on from today, I may do some research and see if I can find sheets on how to plan things. Then again, I may not commit to that and instead continue muddling through it as I go. I do have a plan for next week's post though; Coping Skills. Mine are seriously lacking and I believe I will need them for the rest of my journey. The end goal of all of this is to have better social skills, better awareness of other people and their needs, and how to assert/keep in mind my own needs. No being a martyr.

In between now and next week I am going to endeavour to read the link about Goal Setting. I forgot I had a link on that and it will probably come in handy for planning the rest of the things. Yay for making change and yay for baby steps! I will get there. Eventually. :p

(Links for goal setting and following through on things: Goal Setting Follow Through)