Self Improvement
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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Its been a while since I've posted in one of these and overall the month hasn't been too bad. Still haven't been able to get any consistency in so far as the gym, but I've been able stay in shape.
This past week I started cycling to work with my own bike (had been renting bike share bikes for the past 2 years even though I had my own). I'm able to get a good 9-10 miles total.
End of the month has been a bit of a disaster though. Work is weighing heavy on my mind and I don't really see an end to the troubles anytime soon.
Plans for next week? I really do still want to try to get to the gym at least 4 times. But if not I'd like to at least be able to cycle to work for the week. Not sure if I would be able to though because I'm pretty sure my bike needs a tune up and I don't have the tools for it. Hoping it'll be a same day sort of thing.
For July I'm planning on taking a week and half off of work. Want to take a small trip to get away from things here. Hoping to be able to hang out with a friend or two as well.