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Hello comrades and welcome to the second improvement megathread of November! bonfire I hope your month has started well.


As usual, some discussion ideas:

  • Do you want to share something you've done in the previous week? Everything counts, nothing is too small.
  • Do you have any goals or plans for next week?
  • 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: "Scatter the old world, build a new world"

Dasui jiu shijie, chuangli xin shijie

(打碎旧世界创立新世界)


Good luck with your goals! unity

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[-] moonlake@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago
[-] orshelack@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago

Go ahead and add me, could use some motivation

[-] moonlake@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago

Welcome to the based department, we're happy to have you based-department

Do you have some areas you would like to improve in particular? Feel free to share

[-] orshelack@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago

The main things are trying to get away from my pot habit and get active/ in shape again. Really, any kind of discipline that I can manage feels like it would be an improvement.

[-] moonlake@hexbear.net 1 points 6 hours ago

My super unsolicited advice:

  • Install a step counting app on your phone and aim to get 6000 steps per day
  • Get an adjustable standing desk if possible. My standing desk is one of the best purchases of my life (apart from my gamer PC and guitar/drums)
  • Do small microexercises throughout the day. I sometimes do 50 jumping jacks or 1 pull-up or 2 incline push-ups or 10 squats multiple times in the day. If you track them like I do, you'll see that it quickly adds up. What seems like a small amount at first builds up by the end of the week and now you're doing 300% more exercise than before.
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