What accomplishments are you proud of having achieved recently?

For this past month, I'm proud to have been regularly journaling! I encourage everyone to give journaling a shot, actually!!

Journaling has a lot of value:

- it helps you save ideas that you may otherwise lose track of and helps clear mental space

- it helps you organize ideas that occur in a sequence or relate to one another

- it helps you keep track of ideas you've already explored to avoid redundancy

- it helps you to process and analyze ideas and thought patterns

- it gives you memories to look back on 

- it can be a tool you use to present your ideas to others in a concise way

- so much more!

In addition to working on my journaling, especially as it relates to sorting through my own mental health related challenges, I'm hoping to get back into listening soon. I find myself being active on this site in phases, where sometimes, I'm active for several months and other times, I'm inactive for several months too. Whenever I find myself going through hard times and despite hard times affecting my thoughts, feelings and behaviors, I always come back to 7 Cups. Listening to others does a lot too:

- Helps others in need -- contributing to society makes it better for everyone!

- Contributes to a greater sense of self worth

- Connects me to other people

- Teaches me about the experiences and backgrounds of others which are often eye-opening

- Challenges me to be a better listener in my personal life

- so much more!

I hope everyone is having a pleasant day and that you're able to overcome any challenges you're going through. Perhaps, by setting goals and accomplishing goals, we'll not only make progress towards overcoming challenges and achieving fulfillment in the long term - we'll also find joy and fulfillment in the short term by having a vision to look forward to and by celebrating the smaller victories along the way!