Hello comrades and welcome to the fourth improvement megathread of January! 
One more week to go, there is still time to make some progress and finish the first month strong.
How was your week?
Do you have any plans for next week?
Good luck with your goals! 
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:
pros; general life competency stuff, pets, car stuff
January has probably been the most productive (and stressfulTook care of financial shit I'd been putting off for a long time, got a nice used car, working on my resumé and thinking of finishing a degree. Cats are getting their first vet visits and vaccines and chips (2 down, 2 to go. They've been really good.)
cons; alcohol/nicotine addiction, mental health, injury, broken bone
Been super stressed and irritable and busy and drinking like a fish and smoking like a chimney
Managed to stop myself yesterday from buying more booze and smokes after I ran out and have switched back to vaping and zyn for the nicotine, gonna try to make it through the rest of the week alcohol free
Broke my fuckin' hand lmao
Had a meltdown after getting locked out due to someone else's stupidity and ineptitude and it was just the last straw and I snapped and just started pummeling the door as hard as I could until my hand gave out
Put a about an ⅛" dent in a metal door and broke my fifth metacarpal
First ever broken bone, surprisingly
This shit sucks ass lmao
At least people have been surprisingly nice to me
I want Communism to happen exactly for all those reasons. You should have systems of social support that exist to help you when life comes at you too fast.
Update on the cons, swelling has gone down on the hand and I'm not watching the clock waiting for pain meds. Have an appointment tomorrow with the orthopedic place to hopefully set it correct and get a long term cast.
addiction
Relapsed again on both, AND got my first ever speeding ticket last night, AND my dad had a fall and is going to the hospital and it doesn't look goodFUCK YOU, IT'S JANUARY
Update on the pros, got the other 2 kitties in yesterday for their shots and microchips. Curly didn't wanna get in the carrier, then didn't wanna leave it, then didn't wanna get back into it when it was over. Felix complained (gently) the whole time but was well behaved. Not as good of a trip as Rosie and Goggles had, but still surprisingly good for their first trips.
hell yeah