I just recently cleared my place of much bullcrap and have consequently been able to keep cleaning up after myself moment to moment so it doesnt build up and its basically alwaya clean 🤩
I do squats when I craft video game items. One squat per item. Thousands of squats at this point but still playing just as much so win win in my book. My ass is getting bigger!
Factorio players Start sweating.
If I’d done this while playing Stardew, my legs would be tree trunks by now
Isn’t it nice knowing you can crack nuts with your ass? Gives power bottom a whole new meaning
I’m gonna join your Minecraft world and set up an auto crafter that crafts from an auto farm
Drink a glass of water upon waking up.
Twenty years ago someone mentioned this to me, how the body tends to be dehydrated upon waking and that’s part of why waking up sucks.
Since then I’ve been drinking a glass of water almost immediately after waking up.
I used to lose my keys until I decided to stop losing my keys because they always go “right here.”
“Don’t put it down, put it away” is a mentality I came across recently and am trying to incorporate into my life, because putting something down means it’s gone forever according to my brain.
That’s a nice phrase. For me, when I’m done with something, very often the place it goes is wherever I am right now. Counter, desk, table, top of the dresser. They all work and then things pile up.
Each day, I have a reminder shoot off on all my devices to think of three things for which I’m grateful. Today’s list:
-1. I get to wfh today (we’re hybrid)
-2. I don’t look like Andrew Tate (pic of him in last post where I commented; what a toad)
-3. The vase didn’t shatter when a kitty knocked it off the table eating flowers
(Lemmy wanted to be stupid about how it formatted my numbered list, that’s why the hyphens to stop it from mangling the list.)
You’re grateful that you don’t like Andrew tate?
I mean, the guy is a rapist loser that is best locked up for life, but it’s a weird thing to be grateful for
I don’t look like Andrew Tate (pic of him in last post where I commented; what a toad)
That’s what I said.
Ah, I see I need new glasses
It happens.
The cat will try again, as it wants on its list “broke the fancy vase”. It’s always on the list for cats, they just keep trying to check it off!
Do, or do not. There is no “try.” The kitties will eat those flowers.
Force yourself to sneeze and cough inside your elbow all the time. Even when you’re alone. Then it becomes a reflex and you’ll protect those around you from infection a lot better.
I take a break from caffeine for a week every two months. I do the same with alcohol every month. It helps me stay objective about the amount I’m consuming. It helped me cut way back from pandemic-levels of coffee especially. Hoo, boy, I was one jittery, confined ball of anxiety and despair.
Pro tip: don’t schedule both during the same week.
Me and my wife have started doing Dry January. There was a study about how it led to drinking less year over year. I like it!
FYI caffeine and alcohol don’t actually build tolerance unless you really drink a lot.
I took an involuntary tolerance break from cannabis for 4 days, and it reduced my daily intake by 90%
What do you mean involuntary? Did you get locked up or something?
For 4 days? Sounds more like his dealer ran out.
Or his bank account.
I now do 30-45 strength training at home 3 times a week, and 2 short 15m sessions of HIIT. I spread it throughout the day as an addition to my lifestyle (between meetings, when showering the kiddo, etc) with a tiny investment in equipment and no real impact on leisure time.
It’s part of a change to deal with a very unexpected type 2 diabetes diagnosis and it’s had an outsized impact on my health for the effort.
Coupled with weight loss - Blood pressure, cholesterol, heart rate and blood sugar have all dropped significantly within 3 months. Would recommend, exercise for health doesn’t mean grueling classes, stupid long workouts, or 20 hours of cardio a week. Downside, an utterly ridiculous amount of misinformation online.
Are you effectively “cured” or on that trajectory consequently?
My doctor/specalist suggest I will likely not have it ‘come back’ if i keep weight off and stay healthy, but no 100% guarentee. This is more to do with catching it early and actually making lifestyle changes to deal with it - talking to healthcare professionasl about it most people dont really bother. They very specifically use the term ‘remission’ when discussing it to drill home that you can’t go back to bad habits and expect to be fine long-term.
Type 2 Diabetes is usually a trajectory you end up on that progressively gets treated with levels of medication, but heavily depends on where you catch it, what action you take and your personal body makeup/individual circumstances.
Never use your phone in bed.
CBT (Cognitive behavior therapy). Get your your mind to associate bed with sleep, not with phone stimulation.
Good one.
I actually bought an alarm clock so I could turn my phone off at night, and now, I want to get a step counter so I can keep my phone off when I’m not using it period.
Good one.
I touch the bed, I sleep. My wife often pauses her Netflix to cuss at me for that, but i usually don’t notice anything.
I like this one. Followed it last night.
Having a place for things. Never having to look for “x”. Keys, wallet, which type of utensil goes in which slot in the silverware holder. I have saved so much time, avoided problems and given myself mental breaks by simply putting things where they’re needed and being consistent.
This was something I realised too (or similar). Having stuff also requires having space. If you don’t have space then you really shouldn’t have stuff.
When everything has its place, organisation, cleanliness and general liveability start to take care of themselves. And probably overconsumption and hoarding too.
It’s funny, because “insufficient space” or the “disregard to space” seem to be common themes for me in terms of how modern things are being done poorly.
So much of modern life is about about inventory management.
I like old videos of tribespeople in tropical places. There’s always a guy just lying down in the jungle, doing nothing, with no stuff.
learn from the mistakes of others
If I ever remove the spare tire from my car, I put air in it.
Probably not super helpful since most people don’t ever remove their spares or work on cars AND many new cars don’t even come with spares. But it helps me.
It was not easy to train, nor to keep, but meditation upon waking is vital to me now. I find whatever my biggest struggles are, money, relationships, work stress, family… those anxiety demons are waiting to pounce upon waking. If not, my phone will deliver fresh demons. So I claim my mind as my own before allowing any other influences to set a tone for the day. Start with a 10 minute guided practice from a voice you trust easily. Go from there.
Journaling.
It’s extremely powerful from mental health to actual planning tasks and keeping track of things but weirdly enough it can be difficult to get into.My best advice would be to make it as easy and as low stakes as possible at the beginning. Just open file/journal and write anything every day, even if it’s one word. Don’t worry about anything else. Then you can add and evolve this habbit to whatever feels useful to you.
I stopped using antiseptic mouthwash, even zero-alcohol versions, because the microbes in your mouth produce nitric-oxide and killing them off might be linked to high blood pressure.
I use org-mode to maintain a todo list. A very important detail. All todo must have a schedule or deadline.
Every time I open my editor it shows the agenda view that present me the list of tasks to do today and the ones I haven’t completed in the past.
Mainly, if you can have a similar habit it will work as a meta habit that will improve and grow other time.
Plus org-mode can do so much more, this becomes really useful. Like help with creating new habits, write dynamic documents, etc… I wrote an article about my workflow here https://yannesposito.com/posts/0015-how-i-use-org-mode/index.html
Paying attention to what you’re doing. Sounds simple but so many people don’t do it. They just keep doing the same thing and act surprised when it never works. If you pay attention to what you do and the outcome of your actions, you can improve everything you do and become very efficient.
