Snowflake Day 15

[prisca]

Challenge #15
In your own space, create your own challenge.

I would love to offer you two challenges - one RL related and the other one fandom related.

1. Real Life
We all are struggling with our goals and plans now and then. I challenge you (and myself, I use to forget this all too easily, and the chance that I will give up is big) to be nice to yourself and not to force you too much. Even a small success is a success.

My challenges for this year:
Losing weight: Remember, that you don't have to lose 10+lb within one week; this may look great in TV shows, but it is much more realistic to make mini-steps. Just go your way. Don't be mad at you if you fail now and then. Be proud of even the smallest loss of weight.

Sport: If the only sport you did so far was watching Football or Tennis on TV, don't expect that you will turn into a sports ass overnight. Take it slow. A ten-minute-walk once a week is a beginning; you can think about running a marathon next year when your condition has improved.

2. Fandom Life
I already did mention it before. There are so many great fandom-related communities out there. Sadly a lot of them are very quiet or even abandoned.

I want to challenge you to pick one or two of these communities you are interested in (or you loved once but have left them behind because there are so many new, interesting communities you want to try out).

Give them a (new) chance. Complete a table you have started ages ago but never finished. Grab a new table. Participate in a challenge. Leave some new prompts. Or, if getting active seems to be too much for you at the moment, read some older stuff; leave a short comment. Readers are as important for a community as writers.

Just help to keep a community alive.

Comments

[muccamukk]

I really like the community one. All it needs to get started again is 2-3 people posting.

[prisca]

Yes, it's so sad when an cool community 'dies' because of a lack of interest.

[jenab]

I really like both the be nice to yourself and the community one.

[prisca]

Being nice to yourself is so important, and it gets forgotten so easily.

[spikedluv]

Even a small success is a success.

This is so true. Thanks for the reminder.

And yes to helping keep a community alive!

[prisca]

It was more reminder to myself; so often I tell me not to put me under pressure too much when it comes to writing, but every time I take a break for a day or two, I start to panic even if I'm still on a good way to my goal ;)