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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.
positive
Gym grind has been good. Topped the leaderboard for member visits in December. Hit full stack sets on everything in the hip station the other day, used to not be able to do that on abduction. Getting stronger, looking better, feeling better. Saw my mom today and she said she wished I took more "before" pics because she thought I look a lot healthier and happier and wished I had a better comparison (but I fuckin' hate taking pictures of myself)Weight on the scale has fluctuated with water weight (creatine, spiro, dietary sodium) and food intake and today's weigh in was a step back but the overall trend has been positive. Hoping to hit some of my lofty goals before my next birthday. (BW bench, muscle up, dragon squats, etc)
negative, addiction, alcohol, nicotine
Drinking and smoking have been terribleWanted to quit both for New Year's
Didn't manage that, slipped on both
Need to do better
Under a whole lot of stress but that shouldn't be an excuse
Maybe I'll reconfigure for Chinese New Year's but I'm disappointed in myself
Don't take it too hard on yourself, the year has just begun and there is plenty of time to make progress
Honestly heard the THPS "special" sound and imagined the gold text in my log book hitting the 900 for 3 reps on leg press
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I could easily neutralize a reactionary hostile in a kinetic situation with my legs dawg