goals_on_dw | Introduction / Friending Meme

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About You
Username:
Your other online venues:
Your approximate location (e.g. city, state, country, and/or bioregion):
Any other important personal details you want to share:

Your Goals and Resolutions
Your list(s) of goals or resolutions:
About how often do you post about your goals? (e.g. annually, monthly, weekly)
What kind of goals or resolutions do you typically make?
When is your favorite time(s) for setting goals?
What are some of your favorite goal-setting frameworks?
What do you find challenging about goals?
Are you looking for goal partners or moral support, or people to follow?
What do you hope to find in this community?

Your Interests and Activities
What languages do you speak?
What are some of your favorite hobbies?
What television shows and movies do you like?
What books or other written fandoms are you into?
What kinds of music do you enjoy? Listening, playing, or both?
Do you have a transformative works statement / blanket statement?
What are some worthy causes you support?
Do you have pets or livestock, and if so, what kinds? Do you watch wildlife?
Do you enjoy gardening or houseplants, and if so, what kinds?
What does your average day look like?

About Your Blog
What is your Dreamwidth blog like?
What is your blog metaphor?
How active is it?
What are your most common topics? (Use Manage Tags and then Sort by: usage to find this.)
How do you feel about crossposting?
Is your blog more text-heavy or image-heavy?
Do you paste in or link to a lot of audio or video content?
Do you use recurring posts, and if so, what topics?
Is your blog more personal, professional, topical, or a mix?
Is it all open, all friendslocked, or somewhere in between?
Do you use filters, and if so, what kinds?
What kinds of friends would you like to attract to your blog?
Do you participate in creative bingo, fests, challenges, memes, holiday festivities, or other blogging events? If so, what are some of your favorite ones?
What are your policies on friending and granting access, if any?

Your Blog-reading Habits
How often do you check your friends feed?
About how much time do you spend reading blogs?
How active do you like a blog to be?
What kinds of blogs or topics do you most enjoy reading?
What are some of your favorite individual blogs on Dreamwidth?
What are some of your favorite communities on Dreamwidth?

Currently...
Listening to:
Reading:
Watching:
Playing games:
Wondering about:
Planning for:
Proud of:

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About You
Username: jake67jake
Your other online venues: None really, I do FB under my actual name
Your approximate location (e.g. city, state, country, and/or bioregion): Little Rock, AR (armpit of USA)
Any other important personal details you want to share: not that I can think of at the moment

Your Goals and Resolutions
Your list(s) of goals or resolutions: TBD (I will come back and edit once I sit down and figure some out
About how often do you post about your goals? (e.g. annually, monthly, weekly) *have you SEEN my DW?* I think it’s been 3-4 years since I posted anything
What kind of goals or resolutions do you typically make? Totally unrealistic ones that fall by the wayside within a week – want to change that this year
When is your favorite time(s) for setting goals? New Years
What are some of your favorite goal-setting frameworks? ?? I definitely need to break them down better
What do you find challenging about goals? Everything – attaining them 100%
Are you looking for goal partners or moral support, or people to follow? Not sure – will probably follow this group
What do you hope to find in this community? Some ideas for goals, some ideas for breaking them down into bitesize steps

Your Interests and Activities
What languages do you speak? English
What are some of your favorite hobbies? Reading, cross-stitching (although that has fallen by the wayside badly)
What television shows and movies do you like? I like crime drama, true crime, medical drams on TV; Movies – pretty much anything except gory horror (suspense horror, great! Showing all the blood all the time, bad!)
What books or other written fandoms are you into? Anything by Stephen King, Science/fantasy, Science Fiction, Fantasy, I read a LOT on ff . net usually Harry Potter (but others as well)
What kinds of music do you enjoy? Listening, playing, or both? I don’t play. I usually listen to some kind of pop/rock/classic rock/country (but not hokey country… lol)
Do you have a transformative works statement / blanket statement? SSDD (Same shit, Different day) is one of my go-to’s
What are some worthy causes you support? Several local women’s shelters and animal shelters. I used to donate thru Amazon Smiles to St. Jude until they killed that program.
Do you have pets or livestock, and if so, what kinds? Do you watch wildlife? Have one very spoiled beagle-mix named Sparky; I watch a lot of birds at the feeders and hummingbirds during their seasons
Do you enjoy gardening or houseplants, and if so, what kinds? Not really.
What does your average day look like? Depends on the day. I technically have 3 jobs: 4 days (10am-5pm) I work in a swimming pool company in the service department (desk job), 2 nights (Mon/Thurs) I do the books for that swimming pool company, and 1 day (9am-?? Usually 4ish) I work from home for a lady that dissolved her company but we do stock trading.

About Your Blog
What is your Dreamwidth blog like? D.e.d. I need to revive it
What is your blog metaphor? Hmmm… usually home and personal content (although I have done LJ Idol)
How active is it? Uh, it’s not.
What are your most common topics? (Use Manage Tags and then Sort by: usage to find this.) Usually life in general and my grands in particular
How do you feel about crossposting? I don’t do it generally. I started on LJ, so was cross-posting to DW for a while, but I’m not going back to LJ.
Is your blog more text-heavy or image-heavy? Text for sure
Do you paste in or link to a lot of audio or video content? Not ususally
Do you use recurring posts, and if so, what topics? no
Is your blog more personal, professional, topical, or a mix? personal
Is it all open, all friendslocked, or somewhere in between? I think it’s friendslocked; but honestly, it really doesn’t matter
Do you use filters, and if so, what kinds? Not usually
What kinds of friends would you like to attract to your blog? ?
Do you participate in creative bingo, fests, challenges, memes, holiday festivities, or other blogging events? If so, what are some of your favorite ones? I have in the past, not so much recently
What are your policies on friending and granting access, if any? None particular

Your Blog-reading Habits
How often do you check your friends feed? Usually daily
About how much time do you spend reading blogs? Maybe 10-30 minutes a day? Depends on what the topics are that I’m reading about
How active do you like a blog to be? Daily at least, which is why I suck
What kinds of blogs or topics do you most enjoy reading? General. I like to learn new things, I like to have to think, I like peeks into people’s lives that are more interesting than mine.
What are some of your favorite individual blogs on Dreamwidth? Ysabewordsmith, dreamsrundeep, enchanted_jae
What are some of your favorite communities on Dreamwidth? therealLJIdol, journalsandplanners

Currently...
Listening to: my go to is my starred list on spotify
Reading: a long HP story on FF
Watching: enjoying Brilliant Minds and High Potential
Playing games: bought Uzzle for the grands for Xmas – looking forward to that!
Wondering about: why this season is so freaking hard
Planning for: next year on a lot of levels!
Proud of: my grands… they are my world!

>> Your approximate location (e.g. city, state, country, and/or bioregion): Little Rock, AR (armpit of USA) <<

*laugh* Well, you're not wrong. At least it's not Texas?

>> What kind of goals or resolutions do you typically make? Totally unrealistic ones that fall by the wayside within a week – want to change that this year <<

That's a common problem, but there are lots of other options to try. The first step is just acknowledging that your previous goal approach was ineffective and deciding to experiment with something else. The masterlists are just getting started, but check Alternatives for a few new ideas.

>> What do you hope to find in this community? Some ideas for goals, some ideas for breaking them down into bitesize steps <<

There are already lots of ideas, and some are bitesized already. The section on Timeframes has one day, weekly, monthly, and seasonal goals for things smaller than year-size.

>> What is your Dreamwidth blog like? D.e.d. I need to revive it <<

This community might help with that too. If you make a list of goals, you could post that. Recurring Posts has a section about blog prompts, but for minimal effort, you could choose a recurring post where you just copy-paste the same text every time. Also, a goal of one post per month is much easier than one a week or day.

>> How active do you like a blog to be? Daily at least, which is why I suck <<

There's nothing wrong with that. Some folks have a read-only account and never bother to post.

Texas is worse, true -- but AR is fighting hard to catch up. Our state legislature only meets every other year -- they are gearing up for a Jan session -- just in time for tRump's new presidency. *sigh*

Yes, I read your annual posts about goals and think -- gee, I need to do that. LOL. And yes, if I can manage to make a few goals to track, I will definitely post about them. I'm also in therapy and I need to start journaling for that as well (those will probably be locked posts).

>> Texas is worse, true -- but AR is fighting hard to catch up. Our state legislature only meets every other year <<

That sucks.

>> Yes, I read your annual posts about goals and think -- gee, I need to do that. LOL. <<

Yay! I'm glad I could inspire you.

... don't try to emulate that whole thing. It is the product of many years of trial and error. If you look at the older year versions, you can see how it has evolved over time.

Start with something smaller and simpler that you think will work. Test it. Keep what works, fix what's broke, and try new things.

>> And yes, if I can manage to make a few goals to track, I will definitely post about them.<<

I look forward to seeing that.

>> I'm also in therapy and I need to start journaling for that as well (those will probably be locked posts).<<

Think about what you want to keep locked online, what should stay Secure On Paper Only, and what isn't safe to record at all. Many people on DW use a mental health filter so they can converse with a few friends about their healing journey. That's an option if you want moral support, but don't want to share everything with everyone.

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