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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.
I benched 220 and this whole week is going to be all about making sure everything goes right that I'm joining the 225 club by the end of this week. My plans for April are to finally begin my cut and drop some weight and maybe see abs for the first time in my life. I don't know, maybe I'll find a good sport to get into or something.
Along the way, I want to fix these two things about me: I want a job where I can finally GTFO Ohio. In the mean time, I want to better research what kind of stuff I might like and be good at and then try to go for a master's in that. Work is only going to become more and more of a rare treasure and I'd like to be prepared and also have a job I like.
What can I do to help me better understand what I might like? For people here, was your major/job love at first sight or did you really have to put in a lot of effort to like it?
Hot boy Summer. Go get 'em bro!
A reasonable response to being in Ohio.
Personally I like computers and math. Luckily that happens to be a "profitable" profession, but even it weren't I think i'd still want to go into computers and math. My general advice is find something you enjoy in your life or at very least something you find interesting and start from there and branch out. So long it's vaguly rooted in something you genuinely kinda dig can explore and find something that overlaps your skills and interests and hopefully can earn some decent scratch.