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What's an artificial limitation you put on yourself that has improved your personal life? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've designated one room in my house to be an Airplane Mode room. Technically it has WiFi but whenever I'm in it I behave as if my phone didn't have any reception. Believe it or not, actively pretending that your phone has no WiFi works better than just passively putting on airplane mode. I always get a sense of calmness when I enter.

What artificial limits do you impose on yourself that ultimately enrich your life?

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[–] Skunk@jlai.lu 5 points 1 week ago

I have chosen the easy way and went from too many every day to no alcohol at all. It’s been around a year now and I am going to double that number.

Kudos to you, setting limits feels way harder than getting to zero as, to me, zero means not thinking about it at all.

If you managed to keep those rules for 3 years that’s a good job, it needs a lot of will to not use any downside of life to break the rule.