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Weekly Improvement Thread - Nov 3rd (hexbear.net)
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Hello comrades and welcome to the first megathread of November! bonfire It's a good time to set your intentions for the month.

As usual, some discussion ideas:

  • Do you have any goals or plans for November?
  • Do you want to share something you've done in the previous week? Everything counts, nothing is too small.
  • Do you have any streaks? For example, "sober for one day." Feel free to post your streak every day in this thread.
  • If you don't have a continuous streak, did you manage to abstain from something for a day or more?
  • Did you come across some useful information or resource that might help others?

Poster caption: "Criticize the old world and build a new world with Mao Zedong Thought as a weapon"

Top right corner: "All erroneous ideas, all poisonous weeds, all ghosts and monsters, must be subjected to criticism; in no circumstance should they be allowed to spread unchecked."

(凡是错误的思想,凡是 毒草,凡是牛鬼蛇神,都应 该进行批判,决不能让它们 自由泛滥)

Good luck with your goals! unity

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[-] blight@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

Oh man, this wasn’t a good one. Drank way too much caffeine and fucked up my sleep as a result. Didn’t manage to leave the house 3-4 days, at least spread out. Did a depression porn binge. Had a shit-ton of anxiety. Executive dysfunction. Got stuck fiddling all night very haphazardly with a useless, irrelevant, stupid and annoying little tech project. Ate shitty luxury food all week because it was on sale and I have no self-control.

I did however manage to do some shopping, and went for walks, 2 proper and 3 short, and did some laundry and vacuuming.

I’m gonna really try to get my thick skull that a slow morning doesn’t necessarily have to mean I can’t try to salvage something of the rest of the day.

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