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.
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It's time to review our progress from October and make some plans for November.
Did the stereotype and cooka’d da pizza! Made my best one yet. My family is one of those American families that really plays up the ‘Italian’ LARP, and you know you did something right when it’s 100% vegan and it’s approved by your folks.
I think I want to suck it up and try a free course on coursera or some shit to get an idea of what skills are out there that aren’t agonizing for me to learn and do. Given that I have some interest in social sciences (got a social science degree), but want more of a hard science skill. GIS or urban planning or meteorology sounds interesting so I think I’ll swap my regularly scheduled doomscrolling tonight with some basic videos on those three topics (including bioinformatics and game design). I want to report those to my therapist as I want to take therapy actually serious.