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Hello comrades and welcome to the first improvement megathread of June! bonfire

It's the first day of June, a great opportunity to review the progress from last month and make some plans for this month.


Some discussion ideas:

  • How was your May?
  • Do you have some plans or goals for June?
  • How was your week?
  • Do you have any plans for next week?

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[-] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

This week was almost like a "filler episode" of a week. Not much progress in most of my efforts, mostly just sticking to it all. Grinding away at my goals (in a good way). I don't think I made any major progress, but I didn't lose any momentum either. It was just one of those weeks where you just keep doing what you're doing. Gym, programming, reading, and journaling i think are my four pillars of self-improvement, and so long as I hit those every week I have a foundation for expanding other things. I just have to stay locked in and keep training my various skills like I'm in DBZ hyperbolic-time-chamber

Started my job search too. I need income because I live in a nightmare society with zero interest in public welfare or aid. So I gotta find a computer wizard job. I need money to pay for stuff because being alive is expensive and staying alive is like subscription service.

[-] moonlake@hexbear.net 2 points 11 hours ago

Good luck with the job search! You got this unity

[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 3 points 20 hours ago

My gym time has plummeted these weeks with training course I been doing, tried it the first week with minimal success. My schedule is wake up at 3 make my parents their coffee and oatmeal, cook our lunches, shower and get dressed leave at 5 am to drop off mom to work and head to the training by 6:30 with it starting at 7:30 to 3. Pick up mom at 3:30 and get home by 4:30 make dinner finish and eat by 5:30 and I'm asleep at 7 pm. I should have some time to gym but I'm sometimes too tired or by the time everyone ready to gym it's 6:30.

Today trying something different, I set my crockpot yesterday for some split pea soup, woke up like usual but managed 15 minutes of cardio showered and now it's 4. I think I can probably sneak in 15 minutes a day and that'll energize me for the rest of the day. Gonna try gym but if I can't then at least I did that.

[-] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 1 points 17 hours ago

wake up at 3 make my parents their coffee and oatmeal, cook our lunches, shower and get dressed leave at 5 am to drop off mom to work and head to the training by 6:30 with it starting at 7:30 to 3. Pick up mom at 3:30 and get home by 4:30 make dinner finish and eat by 5:30 and I'm asleep at 7 pm. I should have some time to gym but I'm sometimes too tired or by the time everyone ready to gym it's 6:30.

That sounds rather physically, mentally, and emotionally taxing. I hope you're doing alright on the inside. I would imagine that's just a lot for a person.

[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 2 points 11 hours ago

I been getting used to it, meal prep does give me more time but when I make something on Saturday it's usually done by Monday or Wednesday. Slow cooker and rice cooker are def my friends same with my programmable coffee machine and dishwater to load stuff end of the day

[-] moonlake@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago
[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Stickied. So far so good on being sober from nicotine. Over a week now and I've only had a few major cravings where I wanted to actually buy a vape.

[-] Moss@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

I had an extremely good week! Did five workouts this week and went bouldering, met up with friends a few times, went to a really nice beach, got loads of reading and writing done.

I finished the second half of the Two Towers in one day, and previously it had taken me over six months to read the first half. Now I'm blasting through the Return of the King, I've read three chapters today and I'm enjoying reading so much. I havent felt this way since before I started college, but now that I don't have to read academic texts all day, I've been really enjoying reading fiction again.

I've also been writing more than ever, three days this week I wrote over 1000 words and one day I wrote 2000. I've finally started doing the serious stuff that makes it a novel writing project, I've started making character bios, planning scenes and story progression and trying to work out a map. I've been doing a lot of the important world building in my head this week, and I want to get it written down.

I've been in a calorie deficit on track to lose 1 kilo a week, which has felt really good. I've been so damn motivated to exercise.

Also the biggest one, I actually came out as a gender to my first friend irl! I've been very closeted about my gender but now one person in the world knows I'm agender and that is kind of scary. But it's also exciting. Coming out is really weird

[-] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 2 points 17 hours ago

I finished the second half of the Two Towers in one day, and previously it had taken me over six months to read the first half. Now I'm blasting through the Return of the King, I've read three chapters today and I'm enjoying reading so much. I havent felt this way since before I started college, but now that I don't have to read academic texts all day, I've been really enjoying reading fiction again.

Being able to blast through a book is a strangely rewarding feeling. I think our current generation of internet weirdos would be good to take some time and put some effort into re-learning how to read for fun. I think a lot of my self-improvement progress has come from developing that skill/habit.

Also the biggest one, I actually came out as a gender to my first friend irl! I've been very closeted about my gender but now one person in the world knows I'm agender and that is kind of scary. But it's also exciting. Coming out is really weird

Hell yeah! Be true to yourself always! solidarity

[-] spudnik@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago
[-] moonlake@hexbear.net 2 points 12 hours ago

Congratulations on the streak! rat-salute-2

Looking forward to your next milestone, keep us updated sicko-hexbear-crowd

[-] spudnik@hexbear.net 1 points 10 hours ago

Tyvm! Will do rat-salute

[-] Mog_Pharou@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

I finally did a handstand pushup on parallettes! Huge gains in mobility recently too.

[-] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 4 points 17 hours ago

That's major! That will open up a lot of pathways to other increasingly cool mobility options. It's so cool what you can do with focused training.

[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

doggirl-thumbsup still not drinking! i hit two months today

doggirl-thumbsup i hit my weight loss goal of 190 pounds the other day! now i can put it back on!

idk if i have any other goals tbh but i hit both of them and now i guess i can eat ice cream again so that's neat

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

Benched 225 and finally got a job again in may and still riding that high.

I just blew most of my weekend on RuneScape but I got a 99 in a skill out of it. FWIW it shows I am capable of grinding away at something not too pleasant for a reward.

[-] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 2 points 17 hours ago

Benched 225 and finally got a job again in may and still riding that high.

Hitting 2 plates and having income is the life i want for all the homies.

[-] moonlake@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

My May went surprisingly well, I managed to keep up my streaks of meditation and running. I lost at least 1kg, mostly due to my bean burrito meal prep. In June, I want to continue my streaks and habits, continue losing weight and touch grass with friends

[-] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 2 points 17 hours ago

Keep it up friend. c/self_improvement is going be right there with ya!

[-] moonlake@hexbear.net 2 points 12 hours ago

Thank you comrade soviet-heart

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