Many times over the past month I’ve thought about writing, but would be in the middle of assisting Jayden with her home-school assignments, or cooking a meal, cleaning, or off getting supplies for us. In addition, I’ve also been to three in-person interviews and one over-the-phone, in an attempt to find a customer service position. I’m hoping for a stay-at-home position, that way I can work from the comfort of home and it will be easier on my body. Coming to think of each day as a list of goals to achieve, has helped me to feel more accomplished.
Recently, I asked in my groups if anyone else had things to work along with or around to achieve activities of daily living. Which I discovered, many of us do have to work around certain aspects to get daily goals achieved. Whether it be to retrieve the mail, send off emails, or clean. Every day I have either a mental list or an actual list of tasks to get done. That way, it’s more concrete. Plus, seeing it checked off the list just makes me feel better about those daily tasks I like to call “the damn dailies”. I love to feel as if I’m constantly moving forward. So, learning to live a productive life has been a challenge but necessary. Sometimes though, I’ve wanted to move forward so badly, I have made rash decisions to force my journey along. Which has resulted in finding myself in some enlightening but rather complicated situations. To my advantage, even though I’m a head first type of person, I have learned to sit on things, have a bit of patience. I think that’s one major lesson being stuck in homelessness for 32 consecutive months taught me. I’m sure we’ve all heard the saying: “Rome wasn’t built in a day”; anything worth having is worth the wait to do it right. In relationships, spontaneous moves, and other sporadic decisions I’ve found out the hard way that every situation doesn’t call for the “go all out, you only live once” attitude. Over the past several years of living with chronic daily pain, I’ve had to learn a few lessons about doing physical, mental, and emotional work, which I would like to share.
I’m sure everyone has different techniques to staying motivated and productive while living with disabilities, limitations, and medical issues. These are just the ones I find important to keep going through daily life.
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Authors:James and Katherine are a transgender couple raising two kids. They were southerners when coming to understand themselves as trans. Ultimately it lead to a nearly three year road trip to find home. Now they are re-housed and still focused on outreach in the transgender community! Archives
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