#To do

[neon-junkie]

always told myself that i’ll be that bride who posts a new chapter to AO3 on her wedding day. i will make it happen. i wanna be sitting there on my laptop, ready to walk the isle, but be like “hold up, i just need to post this final draft!”

#ao3 #to do #wedding #marriage #archive of our own #archiveofourown

[csuitebitches]

Things I Have to do for My Sanity

1. Wake up at the first alarm - no snoozing and no going lying around in bed. Getting up straight away and head to the bathroom. It’s going to suck initially but you’ll get used to it in a few days.

2. Mental self care: 30 minute meditation, brain games mental math, reading, news. Knowledge is sexy and don’t deny yourself sexiness.

3. Daily review in my diary at the beginning and end of my day: what went well, what didn’t, what I need to accomplish to achieve my goals. This has tremendously helped my goals and keeping my motivation more consistent, especially at work. Analysing and correcting incremental changes creates long term success.

4. Cleaning up before bed - clothes, shoes, organising my bag, etc. I set a timer for 5 minutes and try to get as much done as possible.

5. Pick out my clothes the night before and steam iron them for the next day.

6. Face masks twice a week, a hair mask once a week, I scrub the soles of my feet with that foot scrubbing thingy once a week. Manicures every month because my nail beds are too sensitive to do it biweekly, iron supplements so that I’m not a moody bitch. Matching underwear to feel good about myself. Lavender spray on my pillow before sleeping so that I don’t get weird dreams.

7. Reading biographies and autobiographies. My mentor had suggested this to me and it’s amazing how literally I don’t have a single original experience - everything I’ve felt or mistakes I’ve made have already been done by someone else.

I’m going to curate a list of business books that I feel that have helped me the most recently.

8. I write a short essay everyday in the language I’m currently learning. I also end my day by talking about my day for at least 2 minutes in that language and I record it in voice memos to keep a track of my progress. I want to be fluent to a level where I can think in this language.

✨

I don’t generally share a lot about my personal life - none of you know my name or where I’m based and I feel comfortable doing that. But I do want to start giving out more insights to what I’m doing personally in my career - the good, the bad, the ugly.

Being self aware and honest to myself has helped me improve a lot. I know that shame is my Achilles heel, so now I’m reading books to combat that. I’ve caved in and decided to try therapy for a bit to see if what I’m doing is useful or not. My first session is tomorrow. Staying disciplined was my initial hurdle but the systems I’ve set (waking up early + habit stacking) have helped me slowly overcome that.

Work side, I’ve started establishing myself publicly more. I don’t want to reveal too much about what I do exactly but the good news is that our biggest competitor has noticed my progress (a former employee of that company came to us for an interview and directly asked our top management about me). It’s been 4 months that I’ve been working here but I know that next year I really have to swing the bat and hit a home run. I’ve decided to work on the field more and less in the office to really understand people’s needs and create unique solutions.

The daily/weekly/quarterly diary is definitely credited to my recent wins. That’s the biggest change I’ve made in my routine and i can already see that it’s working well. I’m going to continue refining and implementing that method.

Recent work methods I’ve decided to start working on (I’m not required to do these but I do it for my growth):

1. I’ve started studying popular companies’ business and revenue models in detail. Everything is adoptable and adaptable, you just have to figure out how to tweak something for your company’s clients and needs. Now I’ve decided that I want to keep a track of our competitors, their business models, their owners names, pricing strategy, their target audience etc etc on an excel sheet so that I’m aware with what’s happening in the market. 

2. I’ve started making client profiles. Every time I meet a client, I note down their name, the company name, what they were like, anything specific they seemed to like or want, how much they had paid us for a service, what their paying capacity could be, etc. 

#c suite #powerful woman #strong women #ceo aesthetic #personal growth #that girl #productivity #getting your life together #balance #to do #to do list

[yeonjune]

jjukkyumiz resting

#moacentral #beomgyu #yeonjun #tomorrow x together #gifs #creations #to do #wabisarah #tusercelia #skyehi #useryeonbins #userbbie #🥺💕 #q

[guqin-and-flute]

Wangji trying to convince his brother to immediately turn on Jin Guangyao and help Wei Wuxian after the Koi Tower Debacle™ feels very [no_take_only_throw_dog_meme.jpeg]

Lwj: Xiongzhang. Help.

Lxc: Okay, but I need to understand the whole situation.

Lwj: ... >:( No nuance. Only help.

#i saw the 'oh wangji brought home an arm' and imagined him as a dog with angry eyebrows standing proudly in the Hanshi door with it #in his mouth #refusing to give it up OR put it down #and this popped into my head #give me time #there will be an edit #to do #my stuff #lwj #lxc #wangxian #NO UNDERSTANDING FOR YOUR MURDEROUS NECROMANCER GREMLIN BOYFRIEND. ONLY MINE.

[theres-an-endless-starry-sky]

who wants a shitty mini oneshot of like 600 words about aussie trucker remus and rich french hitchhicker sirius?

#harry potter marauders #marauders fandom #marauders #sirius black #remus lupin #wolfstar #mine #to do

[nansheonearth]

 A Boston shelter tried a new approach to finding women stable housing. Three years later, its success is clear.

Since launching its stabilization program in July 2020, Women’s Lunch Place says that 97 percent of women who found housing are still living in their homes.

By Alysa Guffey Globe Correspondent,Updated August 30, 2023, 5:51 a.m.

Nancy Edwards in her apartment.SUZANNE KREITER/GLOBE STAFF

Two years ago, Nancy Edwards fell into homelessness after being priced out of rent in Southern California. With her two dogs, Roo and Tink, in tow, she decided to drive across the country with all her belongings packed in her small sedan. Her final destination would be Boston, the home of her only child and the last place she says she received adequate mental health care.

She arrived in Boston in September 2021, and later that month met Lianne O’Reilly, a behavioral health and stabilization clinician at Women’s Lunch Place, a daytime shelter and advocacy center serving people who identify as female.

With help from O’Reilly and Women’s Lunch Place, Edwards, 65, was able to receive the mental health care she needed and took the first steps in applying for housing in the city.

“I was able to make heads or tails out of life and rescue myself from being homeless,” Edwards said.

Edwards is one of 173 clients who Women’s Lunch Place has helped to secure housing since the organization launched its housing stabilization program in July 2020. Three years later, the organizaton reports that 97 percent, or 167, of the women are still living in their new homes.

At Pine Street Inn shelter, a mother and daughter persevere and find communityNew housing strategy behind Mass. and Cass cleanup offers ‘hope, dignity’ — and may be a solution to homelessness, officials say‘Permanent supportive housing’ may be controversial to would-be neighbors, but it’s been beneficial to those who live in it

Located on Newbury Street in Back Bay, the stabilization program is designed to provide clients at Women’s Lunch Place with wraparound services before and after they receive keys for an apartment, said Doris Romero, the center’s housing and stabilization manager. Often times, women who walk through the doors have a steep learning curve when living on their own and can be evicted if they do not have continuous support.

“The last thing that I want is after getting someone into housing is for them to lose their housing,” Romero said.

Romero facilitates conversations with landlords, property managers, leasing officers, and even other tenants to ease the burden on clients. Each woman seeking housing is paired with a full-time advocate from the organization, and the team has doubled in size since its inception, she added.

For some, the housing search can take years, with some guests only moving into homes now after originally starting a housing application five years ago, said Romero. Other times, partnerships and applications with the city can speed up the process for those who really need housing. For instance, Edwards submitted an application to the Elders Living At Home Program through Boston Medical Center.

“In the application you have to explain why this person needs housing, and as soon as I met [Edwards,] I knew that housing was really key to her stability and moving forward,” O’Reilly said.

As a result, Edwards moved in to her new home about seven months after connecting with Women’s Lunch Place.

“It’s nice and quiet and I feel secure,” Edwards said on a recent Friday in her one-bedroom apartment in the South End.

Nancy Edwards in her apartment.SUZANNE KREITER/GLOBE STAFF

While stabilization programs are not necessarily a new invention, Women’s Lunch Place’s method of keeping tabs on and tracking women it helps find housing is encouraging, because it shows “obvious and dramatic evidence that it works,” said Susan Sered, professor of sociology at Suffolk University.

For the past 15 years, Sered has been following a group of about 50 women in Boston who fall in and out of homelessness. In her research, she has seen women lose housing because of substandard living conditions or abusive men in their life who visit homes and cause trouble — issues that can often be prevented with robust stabilization services.

“A lot of these problems are dealt with before they get out of control,” she said of the system in place at Women’s Lunch Place. “They can provide this kind of really intensive support that can help people get through that difficult period or a difficult incident and hold on to their housing.”

Romero said she poses as many questions as possible to find a strong fit for each individual client.

“Do they want to stay in Boston? Do they want roommates or their own space?”

However, even though the program is run through the shelter, women who seek the stabilization services have their own agency throughout the process, choosing where, when, and what they apply to.

“We can provide them options of different opportunities, but they get to choose where they want to apply to,” Romero said.

Most of the clients would prefer to stay in Boston, Romero said, but that doesn’t always work out. Sometimes, after looking at options in Boston, she encourages clients to look elsewhere, such as the North or South Shore, to set realistic expectations. Romero added that the center has had luck stabilizing people in Medford and Watertown homes.

The stabilization program is unique since it doesn’t end once women get the keys to their new place.

“People really assume like everything’s like sunshine and flowers once you get housed,” O’Reilly said. “And it can be, but for a lot of people it can be traumatic in many ways.”

The length of stabilization looks different for each client, Romero said. Advocates visit the homes of their clients as much as they need to help with everything from setting up cable to finding a church community nearby.

Women’s Lunch Place also assists clients facing possible eviction — a vital component of stabilization services, staff members say.

Estella Green, 55, credits the program for her finding stable housing and avoiding eviction after she had been sleeping on the streets or couch surfing for almost three years.

“I was in a place where I was about to go downhill, but I came here and I asked for help and they helped me,” Green said.

With help from her advocate, Christina Labossiere, Green has lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Brighton for more than two years. Since March, the organization has assisted Green in applying to the city’s Residential Assistance for Families in Transition program, which helps keep households in stable housing situations when facing eviction, loss of utilities, and other housing emergencies.

Green said she loves the apartment, especially the bed to sleep in, but still comes to Women’s Lunch Place almost daily because that — not Brighton — is her community.

“You can relax, be comfortable, and you can always find someone to talk to,” Green said.

Alysa Guffey can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her @AlysaGuffeyNews.

Edit:

Here's a link to donate to Women's Lunch Place

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If you reblogged the previous version, reblog with the donate link.

#radfem #alysa guffey #women's lunch place #boston #massachusetts #new england #housing #sisterhood #solidarity #resources #welfare #ideas #to do #o #boston globe

[drkiezalel]

Alan Wake finally having a rest in a cabin drinking coffee.

(Ignore the name, I don't know who Ilkka Villi is)

#ilkka villi #to do #our handsome egomaniac guy #I want to know what the heck he uses for that soft hair

[tomorrowxtogether]

#txt #tomorrow x together #240129 #twitter #soobin #choi soobin #p: selca #to do

[po-1-yb-1-us]

the cutest guy everrrr!!!!!

#i have a level coursework #to do #. #scarab #scarab fionna and cake #fionna and cake #adventure time #fionna and cake fanart

[hobiesdump]

Miles having feels about Margo

He's like

"Gwen. Gwen! Oh my God. Hobie! You saw right?? Did you see how cute she is? Like.... look at her tho! Ok fine. You're right we hafta go. But Imma look one more time tho."

#lol #let's go #flowerbyte #so cute #not hobie? #my posts #screenshots #screenshot #source #monochrome #atsv #no mask #miles morales #miles is gonna get polysaturated so fast #he's looking at Hobie #to do #“ultimate” spiderman

[kociokwiki]

send me your iterator ocs to doodle !!! (sometime. maybe. perhaps)

#to do

[wiirocku]

Psalm 40:8 (KJV) - I delight to do Thy will, O my God: yea, Thy law is within my heart.

#Psalm 40:8 #I delight #to do #Thy will #wisdom #my God #Thy law #my heart

[yeonjune]

Beomgyu licking Yeonjun because his cologne smells good...

#moacentral #yeonjun #soobin #beomgyu #tomorrow x together #to do #gifs #creations #wabisarah #tusercelia #skyehi #useryeonbins #rosieblr #megtag #userbbie #heyiri #userzaynab #kpopco #ultkpopnetwork #the best product placement i've ever seen 😂

[befuddled-calico-whump]

i'm no expert, but the best way to prevent your powerful character from winning fights too easily is to keep them in a constant state of "just got drugged/sick/injured/tortured"

#'but if they're so powerful how do they end up drugged/sick/injured/tortured?' easy. betrayal #oh no blorbo was drugged at a party #oh no blorbo had their morals used against them #oh no blorbo was jumped and outnumbered #its that easy #/hj but the side thats not joking is dead serious #whump prompt #whump prompts #noncon drugging #torture #powerful whumpee #fave #to do

[neon-junkie]

I am having many thoughts, especially after @imperial-science-officer's recent post...

#mypost #mymeme #the bad batch #tbb #to do

[warandpeas]

Make Me Cry

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#clown #clowns #comic #comic strip #Comicstrip #cry #do it #elizabeth pich #funny #humor #jonathan kunz #lol #make a clown cry #to do #to do list #war and peas #webcomic