Personal Traits Challenge – Day 4

Day four. The rules.

Write ten positive things about yourself, every day, for seven days, and post them in a Public Entry.
There are rules, of course. You want to think positively about yourself, so the statements all have to be positive in voice. This means no words like “no”, “not”, or any contraction ending in “n’t”. So, if one thing you want to talk about is your driving habits, then instead of saying “I didn’t speed today” you should say “I drove at or below the speed limit all day”.
It can be an overall personal trait that you admire about yourself, or a small personal triumph, such as the driving example above, but it needs to be about you, and it needs to be positive. It can be in the past, but it should be in the present as much as possible. And it has to be on public! NO hiding behind favorites-only entries. You can censor names of people and places for privacy’s sake, but you deserve to crow about yourself on your diary, and you deserve to have people read about it.
So, there’s the challenge. I encourage you, at the end of the week, to tag favorites with the assignment as well. It’s not bragging when someone asks you to do it!

1. Even though I had a bed to sleep in here at my parent’s house, I slept in my truck so the cat wouldn’t be lonely.
2. I care about the environment.
3. I served four years in the U.S. Navy. There will be no laughing at the picture!

4. I am a good listener.
5. I am working at cleaning my truck up now to make the move easier later.
6. I placed a call to the Employee Assistance Program today to seek some mental help.
7. I am going to call the therapist on Tuesday, after I know I’m going home to clean my truck out, to set up an appointment.
8. I do a decent job of working with wood.

Eight isn’t bad. It’s one more than I did yesterday.

Calling that number and actually speaking to someone was a huge step for me. I have always been the one to say that I’m the last person that needs any type of mental health help and even went as far as to tell my Mom and Dad when I was younger that they would be paying for something I wouldn’t use when they wanted to send me to see someone. It seems I’ve gotten not only older, but wiser too.

Riverwolf