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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.

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Hello comrades and welcome to the last improvement megathread of January! bonfire One more week left to finish January strong unity


Some discussion ideas:

+ How was your week?

+ Do you have some plans for next week?

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[–] rubber_chicken@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

CW alcoholism

The week was OK but I could really be healthier and kinder to my comrades. I'm aiming for dry February. I'm also looking at two short-term living options, neither recovery-focused, just an aparthotel or a little house. The aparthotel is in a super-walkable part of the city. That includes many many bars but also tons of other stuff. The little house is walkable by usian standards but all of the stuff is on two intersecting street. I would be properly within a quadrant and not on either of the streets.

If I'm in the little house, I'd have quiet. I could just go to the grocery store occasionally and stay home preparing my meals, reading, getting used to linux and maybe delving into programming again. Or I could ignore those possibilities, tell myself that I'm bored and bring home booze from that same grocery store and be blotto by noon every day.

If I'm in the aparthotel, I could explore the city more freely and hopefully find stuff to keep me occupied when I'm not doing my inside tasks. Then again, there will be bars on the way to and from everything and I could find myself regularly doing one-man pubcrawls.

Failure and success both seem like real possibilities at both places, so I guess I'm asking for better questions to ask myself before making the decision. Thanks in advance.

[–] moonlake@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't have any experience with this but there are some comrades in our megathread roll call who are on the same journey as you, hopefully they can give you some advice. unity
If you wish, I can add you to the roll call and you can update us on your progress. The megathread is posted every Sunday so you can receive a notification and keep us updated sicko-hexbear-crowd

[–] rubber_chicken@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] moonlake@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

Welcome onboard, we're happy to have you! sicko-hexbear-crowd