Self Improvement

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A community which focusses on improving yourself. This can be in many different ways - from improving physical health or appearance, to improving mental health, creating better habits, overcoming addictions, etc.

While material circumstances beyond our control do govern much of our daily lives, people do have agency and choices to make, whether that is as "simple" as disciplining yourself to not doomscroll, to as complex as recreating yourself to have many different hobbies and habits.

This is not a place where all we do is talk about improving "productivity" (in a workplace context) and similar terms and harmful lifestyles like "grindset". Self-improvement here is intended to make you a generally better and happier person, as well as a better communist, and any other roles you may have in your life.

Rules and guidelines:

Posts should be about self-improvement. This is obviously a wide category, and can range from advice, to finding resources, to self-posts about needing to improve in a certain area, or how you have improved, and many other things.

Use content warnings when discussing difficult subjects.

Do not make medical decisions solely because of a discussion you have had with any person here (e.g. whether to take or not take medications; diagnoses; etc.) as we do not vet people. All medical problems should be discussed with a real-life medical professional.

Do not post harmful advice here. If this is seen, then please report it and we shall remove it. If you are unsure about whether it's precisely harmful advice or not but feel uneasy about it, please report it anyway.

Do not insult other users and their lifestyles or their habits (unless they ask, I suppose). This is a place for self-improvement. Critique and discussion about a course of action is encouraged over shit-flinging. Don't talk down to people.

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Weekly Improvement Megathread - Jan 7th (hexbear.net)

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Hi comrades, welcome to the Improvement Megathread! unity

I plan to post a new weekly megathread here every Sunday. I think Sunday is a good day to review the previous week and make some plans for the following week. If somebody else wants to post a new megathread anytime, just let me know.

Here are some ideas for discussion:

Do you want to share something you've done in the previous week?

Even if you did only 1 push-up, read 1 page, meditated for 1 minute, or touched 1 blade of grass, let us know about it. When it comes to making progress, everything counts. The most important thing is to make progress, no matter how small.

What would you like to do next week?
What aspect of life would you like to improve?
Do you have any streaks? For example, "sober for one day." Feel free to post your streak every day in this thread.
If you don't have a continuous streak, did you manage to abstain from something for a day or more?
Did you come across some useful information or resource that might help others?

Of course, this is not a definitive list. And feel free to make a separate post in the comm for any of these topics. This is just a megathread for all the stuff that you want to share but don't feel like making a new post.

Let me know if you have any suggestions.

And remember the Golden Rule of Hexbear:

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I already posted about my attempting to get our house organized. I got my desk(me space) almost done and it is already starting to feel less noisy.

We took a bin and put it on our water cooler and filled it with our meds. So that clears a bit of my cooking space over that I've been trying desperately to reclaim.

Unexpected but also completely expected but I think I'm going down a rabbit hole of neurodivergent focused texts and suddenly wanna know everyone's story. Got done with "Unmasking Autism" and started on "What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic" by Annie Kotowicz and although it feels like she wrote it for NT's to read, I feel like it's very apt for newly diagnosed Autistics because you get a view into another NDer's life and get a better understanding of how we are all different and also very similar in many different ways. I literally want more of this. It's a super easy read too so it's going in my rec pile.

This next week I wanna do a bit of digital decluttering. I'm gonna finally migrate my comms from lemmygrad over to Hexbear and actually set up a sub list. I love my lemmygrad comrades but I feel more at home here. I've been hanging out here and neglecting a wider community I feel like and wanna get more active across both servers.

I think that's my big one.

I need to re-edit this story I'm working on because I use Transhuman as a main story device but I really don't like how that word looks, especially after reading a bit more on Epstein. So that's another big one.

I got a double session with my therapist coming up by my request too. I have a lot of shit I need to unpack after the holidays and after finally reading more about my diagnosis and wanna start working on how to both still be me but also how to mask when I need to(or should? Like with meeting new people or interviewing for jobs and such.)

That's sort of my current stack.

I'm also gonna look into what I can actually do locally to help ND friends and other marginalized people. I used to say I wanted to get into politics and fix it that way but our local politics is an absolute clown show. I think I might be better suited just pissing them off instead since they don't wanna work to better improve our lives unless we are old, rich, white, trad nuclear marriage enjoyers. I have no idea what this idea will look like as it develops, or where it goes but I feel like maybe it's finally my mark to leave on this shit hole town.