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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.

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Hi comrades and welcome to the first improvement megathread of February!

I hope everybody had a great January and is ready to continue making progress and kicking ass this month.

As usual, some discussion ideas:

  • Do you want to share something you've done in the previous week? Everything counts, nothing is too 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?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Things I'm proud of:

  • finished a feature-complete draft of my dissertation. Now pending approval from my chair to schedule my oral defence
  • started rock climbing again after years. One session and I'm still sore days later, but it feels good
  • been getting daily exercise, mostly drumming, for about a month now
  • kept myself limited to 1 alcoholic drink maximum per outing. This week my friends and I went out twice, so this was my first week with more than one drink since Christmas
  • came out to some friends and it went well

Sites for improvement:

  • get back on a consistent sleep schedule
  • snap back to former life-work balance from before my dissertation writing binge
  • the constant productivity felt good, but I'd like to avoid these writing binges in the future to prevent burnout

Upcoming this week:

  • having some 1:1 conversations with grad students about unionizing
  • a ludicrous amount of prep work for academic job applications
  • goal to get outside the house every day
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Ur life sounds cool as hell nice work kirby-spin