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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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  1. 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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By the power of nobody objecting, I am opening this count space

Trying not to game? avgn-horror Trying to do some daily exercises? sicko-biker Do you feel counting it helps? Feel free to do it here.

If you want to, you can write about your feelings and emotional states as well.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

ablelist words, suicide but not like serious,

spoileri need to stop saying "stupid" and "braindead" and "fucking kill me" and "im gonna kill myself" irl when im upset. its kinda hard. like ill drop something and say "im gonna fucking kill myself" and i call chuds stupid all the time but i should stop.
its hard ive said these things like everyday. its off putting and the last two upset my partner.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Oh yeah, I need to get some of them out of my habits as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

30 pages a day minimum, that's 11,000 a year

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

not bad lol, sorry for some reason I missed the notification

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's a good baseline to explain to people how many books they can expect to get through in a year with minimum effort. One good day off reading would blow thru many times that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh, misunderstood, I am reading between 50-100 currently. Some for academia though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's unintuitive to me, but my buddy recently told me one thing which kept him from reading was the fear he wouldn't be able to read as much as he wanted to if he tried. 😰

Just 30 pages a day and you can kill eleven 1,000 page books Stephen King wrote on cocaine annually - which I don't want to do, but some people do, and makes a good yardstick

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I am mostly doing articles and single book chapters rn bc university hell

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

some discworld and other random fantasy books

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Day 5 no video games. Bit annoyed/mad at random shit. Sleep was bad. I dreamed about g'ming and disappointing everybody.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Exercised twice this week, gonna do it again tomorrow. Hopefully stairs won't suck the day after this time. 🤞