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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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  1. 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.

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Hello comrades and welcome to the third improvement megathread of April! There are nine more days left until the end of the month, which is plenty of time to get stuff done and make some progress.

As usual, some discussion ideas:

  • Do you want to share something you've done in the previous week? Everything counts, nothing is too small.
  • Do you have any goals for next week?
  • 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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Good luck with your goals unity

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

actually i was about to ask to be taken off the list. "self improvement" at this point is just trying to figure out being trans and i post all those thoughts in the trans mega

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

No problem comrade, thank you for your service rat-salute-2

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I know it's not a super ambitious goal, but I want to read more books again. I started 'Bloodlines,' which is a Warhammer noir novel. I'm not expecting anything mind-blowing, but just getting back into reading books again is a good thing for me. It doesn't really matter that much what I'm reading, as long as I'm reading something once in a while.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That's a great goal, I would also like to read more books. There are a bunch of books I want to read but it's really hard for me to find the time. I'm trying to prioritize good habits like getting enough sleep, cooking healthy meals, running etc, so I have very little free time. But I would like to carve out at least 20 minutes a day for reading, that would be awesome

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I ran a few miles today, first time in months

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Press Rolls:

[ ] 3 Stroke 150 2x5 mins

[ ] 4 Stroke 70 2x5 mins. Use 3 for reference.

Traditional Grip:

[ ] RLRRLL starting on upbeat, triplets. 70bpm 10 mins

[ ] Left Hand index bounce 70bpm

[ ] Left hand thumb with index finger bounce. 80bpm

Left Foot technique:

[ ] Bounce knee on pedal 65 bpm

[ ] ankle tech 70bpm

[ ] Heel toe 70 bpm

[ ] Sit high, heel down, see knees move. Knee is at wide angle 130ish degrees. 70bom

Groove Studies:

[ ] Rhythm Scale Benny Greb App 10 min x2 40BPM.

[ ] Gap Click 16th Note Grid, creative 70

[ ] Gap Click KKRRKK swing @160 bpm

[ ] Gap click KKRRKK starting on +1 120

[ ] Gap Click 32nd note funk @70

Listening/Ride Cymbal: Paul Chambers: "No Blues", "Unit 7" "Four on Six" from Wes Montgomery and Wynton Kelly "Smokin' at the Halfnote"

[ ] Listen to Recordings, play with recordings, take notes.

Songs to Learn:

[ ] Skylark

[ ] Fee Fi Fo Fum

[ ] East of the Sun, West of the Moon

[ ] Darn that Dream

[ ] Moonlight in Vermont

[ ] Polkadots and Moonbeams

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Carmen McRae's version of Skylark is amazing (the entire birds of a feather album is, too).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

This week I went running on Tuesday and wanted to go again on Fri/Sat but my lower back started to hurt really bad so I couldn't go. My back is fucked up in general and I'm fairly sure that I have anterior pelvic tilt so I want to do some exercises to fix that. Next week is gonna be fairly busy so I won't be able to go running on two days but I'll try to go at least once.