List of recently added habits: recommendations

All of them sound good. My go-tos are reading, running, power napping, and making to-do lists.

 

I have list of things to:

Keep track of what sites I visit today

Use a rubber band technique; snap it every time I fantasize today

Keep track of any unknown sites I visit that you are not sure about today

Listen to music / motivational music today

Stay busy today

Practice Deep Breathing Technique today

Forecast off days and have a plan for weekends

Do Dynamic Meditation today

Eat Healthy (Enough Protein)

Listen to Epic Music when feeling down on mp3 player

Dip Penus in ice cold water if it gets too hot or boner don’t go away today

Practiced Mindfulness at work today

Take supplements (5-HTP SSRI and L - Theanine) today

PS: Meditation works great too!

 

I love this! What are your podcast recommendations? (I'm a particular fan of Dear John and Hank!) After/during my daily devotionals I also go through and review my day, think through my emotions and how I handled situations. I still stream Amazon Prime, but I don't let myself watch in bed and the door always has to be open when I am watching!

 

Really good tips. some of mine:

- wim hof breathing
- cold showers
- meditation via headspace
- daily journalling - including checking in with habits and goals
- sleep monitoring check
- stretching for my shoulder injury and general stretching
- when injury is over will return to weights and non weight home workouts
- swimming
- podcast listening while walking
- reading books...mostly improvement
- going to improv (comedy) classes
- trying to cut down my news and tv consumption - monitoring my time usage

 

Not to be a negative nancy, but I have one piece of advice: don't burn yourself out!

I do this all the time, go super hard core on having good habits and trying to everything right and perfect and be productive 24/7, and generally what ends up happening is, I get really exhausted and burnt out from all of that and I end up crashing and doing none of those things and feeling like a failure. So just be careful to keep a balanced life and know that it's okay to just breathe and relax sometimes. You don't always have to be doing or accomplishing or creating or growing all the time. It's okay to just *be* for a bit. Or watch TV for a bit, or play a game for a bit.

 

Add running. Work up to 5 miles.

 

You're so right! For years I have thought that I should study hard, work hard, train hard, etc. My logic was that if this guy managed to achieve, for example, good sport results, then so can I. But the thing is that this guy only managed to achieve those results, he's not at the same time expert in a nuclear physics, not a good artist and doesn't know history.

So I would reccomend to choose one primary task to work really hard on it, everything else you can do for fun. I'm not saying you should give up exercising, but if sport is not the most important part, you can allow yourself not to be the best or perfect. Simply make sure you're having good time!

 

Especially with the internet, it's really easy to see so many people who are good at so many things that you think you should be an expert in all of those things as well. But most people are really into a couple things, and not so much everything else. Someone might be really fit, really good at cooking, really well versed in politics, really good at math, etc, but nobody is an expert in all of those things. I think that's good to remember, not to expect too much of yourself.