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Weekly Improvement Thread - Apr 20th 2025 (hexbear.net)
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Hello comrades and welcome to the third improvement megathread of April! bonfire There are exactly 10 days until the end of the month. It's a good time to get back on track or make a new goal.

Some discussion ideas:

  • How was your week?
  • Do you have any plans for next week or next 10 days?
  • Do you have some streaks or sober days to share?

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[-] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

This week was a mixed bag

Dubs

  • Got all my paperwork done to go back to school in the fall. My master's degree program has been totally self-funded and directed and I had to take a pause for a bit due to the layoff but we are back
  • Cleaned the goblin cave that my apartment had become. I think I stop cleaning when I get super depressed.
  • The wave of depression I have felt since the beginning of the seems to be clearing up. The gray fog around my heart and my mind seems less thick. Still moving through it, but certainly less fog overall
  • Read Hellboy comics
  • Did game development work
  • Did all my gym and diet stuff

Major L's

  • Did not to nearly as much game development that I should have done. I really need to find a balance between gaming for "fun" (games I'm already playing, comfort food gaming) and gaming for "research" (games I should have played or games that are important to a genre or other classics)
  • On top of not game developing I also didn't do enough programming this week either
  • Lots of time wasted on internet browsing and YouTube blackholes
  • I lost a lot of the progress i was making talking to people and being social. I haven't really reached out to anyone at all in recent memory. Not even a "Hey so-and-so what's up?"

Plans for the week

  • I have resolved myself to NOT buy any new games for the rest of the year. Just play though all the games i have on my "oh i should play that" list of games that already installed on my machine
  • more job applications
  • swap my keyboard for a different one cause this one sucks.
  • Uninstall time wasting applications on my phone and computer. I try to justify a lot of podcasts and things with "oh but I'm learning though" but I realize they are just a way to take up space or make me not focus on what I'm doing.
  • find some habits/behaviors to help recalibrate my focus on "deep work" to do my "flow" on my creative projects. I deserve to give myself my full attention and effort.
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