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.
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Hello comrades and welcome to the fourth improvement megathread of November! 
Some discussion ideas:
+ How was your week?
+ Do you have some plans for next week?
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The PLA uncle teaches me target shooting
解放军叔叔教我学打靶
Jiefangjun shushu jiao wo xue daba
for the last month and a half i've been taking an iron supplement. the last week i've also added in a multivitamin and a d3 supplement. i don't eat meat and i'm injured so i haven't been able to get vitamin D and i'm definitely lacking in nutrients from my vegetarian+only eating a few things bc im weird diet. no noticeable improvements yet ofc but in 2 months im gonna be feeling great. i've been vitamin deficient for a while
good job! one of my favorite ways to increase iron is by combining it with vitamin c since vitamin c makes it more bioavailable, even as simple as a glass of orange juice with your iron pill is helpful. My favorite food recipes to consciously get some of that in though are beans+lime and oats with oranges
I am also taking vit D during winter. Other than that, I'm taking magnesium glycinate (it increases vitamin D absorption), vitamin B12 (since my diet is mostly plant based) and Omega-3. My iron is also low so I sometimes take an iron supplement.
Work work work work work
I was working six days in a row this week
I'm so fucking tired of work
It has motivated me to work for myself. I don't know how. In an ideal world I would have all the time to write books and review games and program my own games and sell drawings. As is, I learned how to build a PC recently, and I'm considering learning more and setting up my own business, or going into games journalism. But that all takes a lot of work, and I'm already exhausted from work.
Having said all this, I'm mercifully getting a week off work this coming week as I have to go for a minor surgery. I want to use this time to work on some skills and finally edit a video for my YouTube channel that I started over two months ago.
I have never successfully used a calendar app, a planner, nor SMART plans. Though I feel like these would do me a lot of good in the moment I'm currently in. Any advice in making plans that are worth a damn?
Just get busy
For me, calendars became a necessity rather than an option
Now I don't know how I live without them
It depends, what is your plan? I sometimes use Google Calendar to make reminders for myself. You can make a schedule in the calendar and then it sends you a notification on your phone whenever a new time block begins. It's very useful for keeping yourself on track. For example, you can make a reminder every day at 10am that just says "Let's go chief, it's time to do 20 minutes of building toward [insert your main goal]"
I guess it's that I have a few different pieces of a project to put together. I need to anonymize some sections to get it ready to open source, I have to have different deliverables for different people, and there's some more work I could do to make it a little more user friendly. It's got me feeling overwhelmed and like time has finally caught up to me. I feel like if I organized the pool of tasks into a plan it would give me a lot less anxiety. But I've never really made a plan that I followed through on. The second there's a permutation (and there's always a permutation) everything flies out the window.
roll call
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@TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net
@LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net
@Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net
@anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net
If anybody else wants to be added to the roll call, just let me know 
Roll call me please
Welcome to the based department 
we are happy to have you with us! 
Stickied good luck
Had my video interview and tried my best. What’s giving me some nerves is that it was a group interview and every other interviewee was awesome. Still hoping for the best but…really can’t be complacent.
It's getting too cold for running these days, I need to find a new way to seize the means of dopamine production.
SAD has kicked in, so I'm reading more (fiction) and exercising less. It's a self-reinforcing loop of sorts. Did a hike, a couple of short bike rides, and a short run this week, so doing better. You've got this, comrades!
What are you reading? I'm also exercising less since it's getting too cold for running. I'm trying to do some microexercises, like jumping jacks and stuff. But winter is for enjoying the vibes and eating tasty food. It's normal to slow down in winter, you know you'll be able to pick it back up in spring
Just saw this - most recently the Brandon sanderson sci-fi series Skyward. This is the first of his books for me and I'm on the last one now. It's got some good 'fight the evil empire' vibes.
I'm still on my running plan and intermittent fasting, which are going well.
Also got started tapering off kratom again. I'm going very very slow since I'm not having any issues, I just don't want to be on it for my whole life. It'll take at least a year at this rate, but I don't want to relapse into something harder.
My work has sucked lately. I'm doing gigwork which was great but they signed up so many new people in the last couple months that my income is cut to less than half even though it should be really busy with Thanksgiving and black Friday stuff. I'm going to ride it out through January since I'm dealing with a hand injury that's going to make doing a lot of jobs harder. But if it doesn't get better by then I'm going to have to find a job.
Good luck with tapering off! Check out r/quittingkratom if you haven't already
I appreciate the support.
I try to stay away from tapering discussions online unless I need some specific information. I find it makes me hyper focus on withdrawal symptoms. I end up getting anxious, which is easy to confuse with new withdrawal symptoms and ends up making me worse off.
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Wish I had a PLA uncle to teach me target shooting 