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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maybe go to sleep as soon as you get home and do stuff later/in the mornings. save something caffeinated for when you get back. put the phone away somewhere after work. have a "i'm off work" routine like exercising or showering to get into a different mindset.
I generally assume that I can only do creative things (writing for me) in the morning before I go to work. After work, the best I can do is chores and maybe some reading and guitar.
I would be waking up at midnight basically to give myself two hours before work, but I think I’m gonna give this a try. It’s the one piece of advice in the thread I’ve clicked with so far.
A few weeks ago, I had a stent where I was waking up about an hour before my alarm went off. The first day I just couldn’t get back to bed and laid there for an hour, so the second day I just got up. Figured I would fill the time with coffee and hexbear, but then I got in the mood for journaling. Looking back on it, that was a couple pretty good days.