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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'll put it this way, with your average self-help guide, many people have lost weight, gained muscle, improved their looks, etc. I have yet to see some kind of organizing guide other than "join an org."
That's the thing about organizing, is that you need to do it along with other people. Just get outside, talk to your neighbors, find a community group to join, take a local organizing course (actually a lot of them). Just go out and do something nice for other people. Learn organizing from someone else who's good at it.
If you need to read about it, there are actually lots of guides on organizing. For example:
https://www.brightest.io/community-organizing
https://neighborhoodanarchists.org/organizing-guide
A DSA Resource for Effective Community Organizing http://www.campusactivism.org/server-new/uploads/dsa_organizing_manual.pdf
For example