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sunshine_revival has officially started, kicking things off with the first prompt!!

Challenge 1 Journaling Prompt: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.

Making goals for myself is always a bit of an interesting task for me b/c I either have trouble making them, trouble sticking to them, or BOTH! xD This year and beyond, I wanna start actively making an effort, so I feel like typing these out helped me visualize them and subsequently get them out in the open so I can start DOING instead of THINKING. xD

Without further ado--

Long term goals:

↳ “Enjoy” myself: Love the skin I’m in b/c I only get one shot at being me, so I might as well love me and make the most of it.

↳ Improve my finances: I need to stop being so afraid of money (I grew up dirt poor, SUE ME xD) and make it work to my advantage. Start REALLY saving for my future and taking things more seriously.

↳ Write more: I’m still discovering what I want this to mean, but I know I want to get back to a place where I “write like no one’s reading” (aka “dance like no one’s watching”, you know the drill xD). I’ve seen both friends and mutuals alike just power through 7k+ words in one sitting sometimes simply b/c they needed to see their ideas REAL, and mentally I’m trying to be THERE. xD Not comparing my journey to theirs per se, but it’s been long overdue for me to work through my whole “desperately wanting people to read my stuff when I shouldn’t give a fuck that deeply whether they do or don’t” thing.

Short term(?) goals (could PROBABLY be done by the end of the year if I played my cards right xD):

↳ Finish my OC’s long fic that I’ve been putting off for what feels like EONS. I know for a fact I want to finish it b/c I want my OC to face his trauma and get his happy ending, just beat myself up too much and lost steam on it when I felt like no one was reading it. I’m at that point where I’m just starting to say “screw it” so that I can hopefully get that and other long fics I want to do in the future done.

↳ Go for a walk twice a week: starting off small, then hoping to gradually raise it to twice a day, 7 days a week.

↳ Get through my reading backlog: thankfully it’s only 20 books, but I’ve put them all off for long enough! xD Making it a point to not buy anymore books on my wishlist until I finish the ones I have! (My Junji Ito collection specifically side eyeing the FUCK out me xD)

This isn't what I'd consider a full list, just some things that I felt were easily attainable with enough inertia that would hopefully inspire me to be more proactive about making and fulfilling goals, so WE'LL SEE!! 🤞

I also have a fic coming for the creative prompt, but that'll get attended to after I cool off from the 4th of July shenanigans. xD Take care out there, and happy Sunshine Revival! ^ 0^)/