ЯSmogul: Editorial Wonderzine on personal achievements in 2018

Summing up the year - good practice, but not everyone has the time and passion to do it. The easiest way is to remember that you managed in the outgoing year, and from the bottom of your heart to praise yourself - even if it is something quite small. Tell us about your achievement under the # yasmogla2018 tag in instagram - we will read everything and we will be proud of you, and we will award prizes to the authors of the most touching stories. And let's start, of course, with ourselves.

Sasha Savina

Editor section "Life"

This year turned out to be intense - there were many good, new and interesting, and not the simplest moments. All, of course, you will not retell, but, for example, this year I was able to reconsider views on alcohol. I don't drink much and often, but I am generally positive about alcohol. In the fall, I was unexpectedly prescribed a course of treatment, which meant complete sobriety for several months. I met this news with horror - not because I have a dependency, but because alcohol is important for me primarily as an element of social interaction. I am very uncomfortable in large companies, and I was afraid that without a glass of champagne I could not be as cheerful as I would have liked.

The reality turned out to be better than I expected: I went to several parties, corporate parties and parents' wedding anniversary, everywhere I was sober and everywhere I had fun. It turned out that I was quite comfortable communicating with people and so (except perhaps for unfamiliar companies), and in order to start dancing, it is not necessary to wait for a few glasses of champagne. Bonus - the absence of a hangover, money saved and less carbohydrates in the body (given my love for pizza and fast food, this only benefit). If you do not consider the obsessive questions about pregnancy (although, probably, I would have thought exactly the same), everything went very calmly and well.

I do not plan to completely give up alcohol, but I hope that this will help you to treat it more consciously - it will never hurt for sure. The main thing to withstand the long holidays.

Olga Lukinskaya

Health section editor

Especially for this material, I opened my plan for 2018 (I usually do this later, because you can still have a lot to do in a week). I realized that, in general, I managed to accomplish all the big tasks (to pay a loan for a car four years earlier and go on the desired journey). I over-fulfilled something and knew in advance that it would be so - for example, I read two times more books than in the plan. Something did not work out, and I also knew it beforehand - well, seriously, how did I guess to write into the plan “to cook at least three times a week”? I would like to call the release of my book my biggest achievement, especially since the first edition was quickly bought, and now the second one is on sale. But I finished the book and passed it in 2017, and in 2018 I did not put effort into it.

I think my real achievement this year is that I learned to perceive comments in my address much easier - they no longer bring me to tears, do not make me not sleep at night, compose bold answers in my head, and generally do not interfere with life. I think I gradually got used to not please everybody, but I also realized that most often the haters talk not with me, but with a fictional opponent, and I and my text just fell under my arm. Maybe this is a trifle, not an achievement - but it seems to me that in an era when we are all constantly under a magnifying glass or even a microscope of social networks, and life online and offline is not very divided, it’s very useful and cool to take at least one step to your own peace of mind.

Anya Aristova

junior editor

Usually I don’t give due attention to my achievements, considering them to be something insignificant and something that goes without saying. But at least once a year, habits must be changed: I praise myself that I could quickly pull up the French language with my will, collect all the papers and go to one of the best communication schools in France - and also begin to understand the intricacies of independent life in another country ( now I can read a whole lecture on the French bureaucracy, which scares me a little less). I am proud of myself for not depending financially on my parents and learning how to allocate my own budget and time, and also to suffer less from the impostor syndrome.

This year I decided to fulfill my old dream and start making music (thanks to Anton Maskeliada) - and found that people like it. I was able to write material about "tourist chic", which changed the lives of some members of our editorial board, and mine too (long live balaclava and "daddy's" sneakers). Finally, I praise myself that I learned how to take better care of myself this year, not to sleep, if I need one, and to eat better, I plan to continue in the same spirit in 2019.

Dima Kurkin

Opinion Editor

One hundred and seventy pages of text that lie in front of me (in fact, they “hang” in a text editor, but this doesn’t sound so poetic), is just a loose draft that the ruthless editor’s scissors will repeatedly redraw to unrecognizability. And yet - this is the first book translated by me, and next year it will most likely be on the shelves. Awareness of this pleasantly tingles, and to this feeling I walked for ten years. All this time I translated the little things, but as soon as it came to great difficulty, it was like waiting for a supreme edict: the heavens would open up, a ray of divine light would blow over my head and echo "Stand up, sir knight, for now you are a translator!" Nothing of the kind, of course, is happening, and it is even strange that, having allowed yourself to do one, second, third thing, you go in circles around another one - and you cannot decide. And this is for me, a person who has “can!”, Probably the favorite answer in personal and business correspondence! For the year, a lot has happened, but this "self-imposed!" is still as pleasant as all the previous ones. Try it, it's easy.

Ksyusha Petrova

editor of growth and distribution

Among friends, I am famous for the ability to devalue my achievements and virtues: “so what, that the text is good, nobody reads it anyway”, “so what, that the new hair color is cool, still everyone looks only at the pimple on the forehead”. This year I honestly tried to tie it up - so that I can perform in the genre of "I could" with two whole important points.

Achievement one: I realized that there are many interesting programs for journalists in the world, where I could theoretically go, I sent a request for a three-week internship in the USA - and passed. The trip was very useful, primarily because I talked to other journalists, looked at the editorial staff, and realized that in general I was no worse. Now I have a new rule: I see a suitable program - I immediately send a request, without wasting time talking about whether "I am worth it." To get somewhere, you need at least a little to move the most - for some reason, this simple idea was given to me just now. Moreover, I have a suspicion that it will work in other areas of life.

The second, a bit gloomy, but with a good end: after a two-year break, I went to therapy and started taking antidepressants again - an achievement in that I did not wait until my condition rolled away completely into a ravine, and in time asked for help. In the list of my priorities, mental health is now confidently taking the first position: I am very proud that I managed to take care of myself in time, and I feel much better.

Julia Taratuta

Chief Editor

This year I quit smoking. In principle, I was planning to quit. But smoking only seems to be a harmless, albeit harmful, habit. In fact, dependence it remains in full.

I started to smoke late and quite deliberately. I always liked the image of a smoker - bohemian and emancipated. Smoking was also fashionable and even useful. It was not by chance that a cigarette became a cinema clapboard, symbolizing trust and sex. Many professional conversations and important news began in my life with the ignition of a cigarette. It was pleasant to smoke with alcohol and coffee, with a girlfriend and under the morning news, getting into the car and getting out of it, in company and alone, in grief and in joy. Gradually, you begin to perform a daily ritual that more and more resembles a vicious circle. So I wanted to quit smoking as deliberately as I did.

I have ceased to like that I can no longer smoke or not smoke, but always choose only the first. Smoking ceased to be an entrance - only an exit, it took to search for special zones, to leave people, and not to unite with them. I didn’t like that cigarettes simulated employment: you don’t seem to be idle, but you smoke thoughtfully. And finally, they just went out of fashion.

Do not think that now only conformists do not smoke. When smoking in the world began to be banned at the state level, I wanted to protest rather - after all, a person is able to deal with his addictions himself, without paternalism. But the very format of existence with a cigarette has ceased to seem to me as contagiously beautiful, and an unhealthy lifestyle as a whole has long been not the main marker of creativity and independence.

To quit smoking, pregnancy, like many women, helped me. But not at all the legendary toxemia, which supposedly discourages the very desire to smoke - I have never been sick. A banal bronchitis - my cough, of course, gave me a smoker. At this point, smoking seemed to me not just a stupid, but also an irresponsible act. I just did not smoke again, and I still do. It turned out not to smoke, like smoking, quite pleasant.

Dasha Tatarkova

Deputy Chief Editor

I usually end the year with a completely different attitude, not even closer to "I could not", but to "what became of us." This time, however, I want to break the toxic pattern and praise myself - I was finally convinced that I should praise myself for any reason, even the smallest, and as often as possible. Removed the bed? Well done! Brush your teeth before bed? Delightful. Has it been recycled for recycling? But who is this heroine, I want to meet her!

In short, this time I will try to praise myself: this year I was able to look at my way of life with my unknown awareness so far and change it where it upset me. I replaced the diet of pizza, burgers and cookies with a balanced diet, greatly reducing the amount of added sugar in the diet. You eat what you want and do not demonize, please, the food - I just felt very bad at one fast food, I wanted to sleep all the time and could not find the strength for anything.

Instead of being tormented by FOMO, I started building social connections myself (in other words, calling friends somewhere), I stopped avoiding conflicts (which only strengthened the connections above) and I believed in myself a little more. And finally, (that is, literally by the end of the year), I began to drink responsibly! To praise yourself for anything that you did in the past year - I think this is a useful practice that will help us all to love ourselves a little more.

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