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 🤩
Never use your phone in bed.
CBT (Cognitive behavior therapy), train your mind to associate need 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.
Ooh. Nice.
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
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.
Meditating
Get in the habit of getting into habits. My high school chemistry teacher turned me onto this. Make a point of doing something every day for a while and soon it will become hard NOT to do it.
org mode
Listening to audiobooks!
I always listen to podcasts and audiobooks while I am driving to office :D
I’m currently learning Spanish on my morning drive, it feels very rewarding not to just waste time.
I read for like 10 minutes every morning on my iPad with the Libby app (usually) and it’s great. I’ve read so many books now!
I love my local library because they’re keeping me sane on my work commute! I looove audiobooks and it’s so nice to be able to try so many and not have to worry about if I will like them because it’s all free!!!
Libby and your library card.
I play videogames while I drive to the office. (Decent) public transport is great like that. Auďiobooks are indeed great for driving though. I listened to about 300 books per year when I was an international driver.
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.
I am, in a non-self deluded way, a “social drinker”. I don’t keep any alcohol at home. I only drink around friends, and I keep company that does more things than just go to bars. This makes alcohol actually seem like more of an upbeat treat than something habitually consumed.
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?
I was traveling and the laws at my destination had changed since I’d last been there.
For 4 days? Sounds more like his dealer ran out.
Or his bank account.
I was locked up for 3-4 days in Finland for weed.
Jail =/= prison.
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!
I’ve read similar. A full, continuous month would probably be more effective than my week-long dry spells, but I have alcohol-related hobbies (brewing, distilling, other fermentations) that I don’t want to shelve for that long. So more frequent week-long spells are for me.
Happy journey with your spouse, I hope it’s a positive for you!
Honestly the first couple times I would make exceptions for birthdays and whatnot but it’s gotten easier. Also in your case it seems like tasting booze for hobby purposes is different than having a drink… anyway good luck to you too!
like tasting booze for hobby purposes is different than having a drink…
Weeeeell, it’s a better excuse, innit?
- I used to brew beer as well and going completely dry when there’s delicious homebrews in the fridge isn’t as easy as when there are none.
FYI caffeine and alcohol don’t actually build tolerance unless you really drink a lot.
It’s not about tolerance, it’s about monitoring how much I’m consuming so I don’t overdo it.
Flossing I guess.
Water flossing! It’s like a bidet for your teeth.
bidet for your teeth
I thought the instructions were clear, but here I kneel in the bathroom with a wet face, soaked shirt, and still a popcorn kernel stuck between my molars.
I had one but the hose broke, so now it dispenses milk for the cat through the fridge door when we’re away.
It reduces the risk of heart disease! Very important.
Remember, you are most likely to die from heart disease.
Eh. I always saw myself as most likely to die with a shotgun in my mouth, and pulling the trigger with my toes.
Really? How the heck does that work out?
You’ve already got a better answer, but let me encourage you to remember your circulation whenever you think of your dental health to help motivate you to build and maintain those good habits.
Flossing seems mundane, but really it’s helping you with the most important risk factors for the things that are most likely to kill us.
The rubbish that gets into your teeth /gums can then get into your blood stream. From there it can travel to your heart and cause issues.
Well that’s good to know. Thanks!
It’s not, it’s almond milk. Even the gray aliens won’t touch the stuff.
this is an important one. i nearly died when a tooth bacterial infection spread up my trigeminal nerve. not to mention the pain.
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.
I second this.
It’s great having specific spots for things. I also have a specific bag for when I go to the gym with its own set of earbuds and other gym ephemera.
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.
If you don’t have space then you really shouldn’t have stuff.
You shut your pretty whore mouth!!!
nervously glances at my 6 tubs of amiibo and 4 tubs of G-Scale model trains in an apartment to small to sneeze in
Oh I’ve been there. I am there. I was not virtue signalling. It was a cry for help!
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.
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
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!
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.
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
I’m gonna join your Minecraft world and set up an auto crafter that crafts from an auto farm
Isn’t it nice knowing you can crack nuts with your ass? Gives power bottom a whole new meaning
I started washing up straight after eating. So much better.
Kinda a boring one but gym. Started a couple of years ago once a week and had to drag myself there but after a month or two of that something flipped and now I go almost every day. It’s pretty fun and it’s great to notice the change in myself over the last couple of years. Now just need to do something about diet and sleep.
I second this. I am bad at breaking my habits or starting new ones so I just started going every weekday starting around the beginning of this year. I also started eating healthier. I feel freaking great. Lost 25lb, way more energy, joints don’t hurt as much… A lot of the “well, getting old sucks” things just went away after a while. Now that I’ve started the habit I have trouble not going to the gym.
That’s awesome! I was surprised at the shift between having to push myself to go vs having a natural pull to go. Definitely makes a huge difference and seeing/feeling changes happening is so motivating.
I went to the gym for 4 days… And wasted 26 days of subscription fees :/
