Let's get shit done

A lot of people here seem to have problems with staying in a good routine and/or pursuing their goals. I myself am one of them. So here's an idea: we'll hold each other accountable. In this thread, post a goal, and a routine that you will use to get there. Once per week, update everyone on your progress. There are some rules: 1) no giving up. If you completely fail for four days in a row, shape up on the fifth day. It's never too late to start. 2) no setting unrealistic goals, because you want to actually accomplish these. 3) no being an ass. So here's my goals and routine: GOAL: getting up early in the morning, and studying + exercising daily. ROUTINE: lights out at 11 PM every night, alarm set to 8 AM. Start the day with a short workout which expands over time, plus a long hike or bike ride every weekend. I will also set aside 3 hours every day to study, starting today.

>>28166 ROUTINE: Go to bed at 11:30, wake up at 9, read 15 pages minimum, play guitar for 1 hour, go for 30 minute walks before 3pm for the vitamine D, exercise (already do), search for jobs for few minutes a day.

>>28166 Already set this one but didn't work so i'll try again GOAL: Study and (excercise) daily, stop watching porn, and create something(Can be something really small) every two weeks. Try to be more outgoing and if I manage to talk to a human, be nice to them ROUTINE: read 20 pages minimum of something and excercise for 30 minutes every day, disable automatic image loading in browser

Goal: >learn German >wake up on 8 AM every day >get a job >clean my room every 2 days Current state: >40 days studying german on duolingo (50xp every day) >wake up at noon instead of 3 PM >been jobless for a month, living with parents, made CV from past STEM jobs and cleaned up my github >once a week We can do it lainons, just do it every day until it becomes a habit. Will come back to say where I stand in week time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMsBHDoC51c

I already do this. but I'll share it. >University First, just complete assignments asap... Then recap every day, while including previous weeks assignments. This is where most of my life goes. >Exercise (25 lbs dumbbells) # Everyday [ ] Chug 24 oz protein shake [ ] Radio Taiso (pre-workout) [ ] Radio Taiso (post-workout) [ ] Icy cold shower. # Sunday [ ] Overhead press (5x12) [ ] Lateral raise (5x12) [ ] Arnold press (5x12) [ ] Upright row (5x12) [ ] Front raise (5x12) [ ] shrug (5x12) # Saturday, Wednesday [ ] Squat (5x12) [ ] woodchop (5x12) [ ] lunge (5x12) [ ] halo (5x12) [ ] goblet squat (5x12) [ ] crunch (5x12) # Friday, Tuesday [ ] Bicep Curls (5x12) [ ] Triceps extension (5x12) [ ] Hammer curl (5x12) [ ] Triceps kick-back (5x12) [ ] Spider Curl (5x12) [ ] Narrow dumbbell press-up (5x12) # Thursday, Monday [ ] Floor Press (5x12) [ ] Hammer bent-over row (5x12) [ ] Dumbbell press-up (5x12) [ ] Reverse Flye (5x12) [ ] Wide dumbbell press-up (5x12) [ ] Renegade Row (5x12) >check garden, remove any debris I find >check lainchan >free time? Read violent extremist literature. Here are some goals I want to get back into doing: >Japanese studying. >Waking up at 8 AM instead of 10. >several hour long meditation

what if i have no goals

>>28176 >wake up at noon instead of 3 PM Have you tried setting an alarm, and placing it somewhere not accessible from your bed?

>>28178 I think I'll start using this exercise routine, once I can figure out what these words mean. I've had the same suuuuper basic one for years and it's ok but I get the feeling I'm over-working some muscles and neglecting others. 20x push-ups (alternate days between narrow and wide) something core-related that I vary daily alternate days between 20x curls and 20x rows 20x squats repeat 1-5 times.

Goal: -Get a new job since my company closed Routine I should do: -At least find something to study -Wake up before 12 -Go back to school next year My actual routine: -Wake up at 6pm, play Classic WoW all day, smoke a bit of weed, sleep at 12am, repeat I don't even feel bad about it. I worked night shifts for years so even if I don't find a job I get paid (EU) for at least 2 years. Only thing is, I still don't know what to do with my life :/, so I don't know what to study.

>>28243 This routine is pretty great. It works out everything and requires no gym membership. Just grab some dumbbells and you're on your way.

OP here, doing an update on my progress. By far the hardest part is getting up early. I suffer from insomnia and I thought that declaring all lights and screens in my room must turn off at 11 would help, but it turns out that I just lay in my bed with racing thoughts until 2 AM anyway. Then I wake up at 8 and lay in bed feeling like crap until 9 or 10. It's pretty much random whether or not I manage to get a good night's sleep. On days when I get a decent amount of sleep the night before (3/5 so far), I am able to meet all my goals. It feels great. On days when I don't, I can barely do anything, I'm too tired even with coffee and a good breakfast. I think I need to get serious about the insomnia for this to really work. Any tips on dealing with insomnia lain?

>>28284 maybe melatonin could help, its a dietary supplement so it's available over the counter pretty much everywhere I think. it has helped me quite a bit to maintain a regular sleep schedule. something that also helped me was keeping track of what i did and ate before going to bed and when it was harder to fall asleep, so I just tried out some combination of thing until i found the things that worked.

There are 2 big goals for me now. The first is 75Hard, it's a fitness/discipline challenge which is basically: 1) drink 1 gallon (3.8~ liters) of water 2) take a progress pic every day 3) no cheat meals + no alcohol 4) read 10 pages a day 5) two 45 minute workouts, one has to be outside I'm now 7/75 and probably had the hardest day of the challenge so far, but I'm also feeling great. Sleep is so much better, especially because of the two workouts and more water. Since quarantine times I gained a lot of weight so the challenge helps with that too. And I'm the designated driver for a while now. The other big goal is my freelancing, I've been super slow, anxious and fearful, and only contacted 1 business this week and 1 the week before, and I need to be more active and less of a fuarrrking pussy. I'm at the point where I'm looking for the first portfolio client, and I'm able to get leads from friends/family - I just need to stop being a fuarrrking pussy bitch. With my routine itself, besides 75hard really kicking things into place, I have Cold Turkey block most gaming/chans on my PC from 1am to 3pm. Also pornhub and 4chan are blocked for good, and also on my phone. TLDR; Goals: complete 75hard and find that first client

Well here i go WORK Master kubernetes/helm/docker Learn the most used linux apps (sftp, squid, ad, proxys, etc) Master bash Master linux HOME Make some nice things for the cat (some plant so he can eat and finish the arduino toy) Hide all ugly cables around FUTURE Learn more about virtualization/hupervisors Set up a nice home server Learn chinese Try to get a better hand about what is needed for the us greencard Convince the gf american grandpas that they must and need to hire my at their university Make some spare money as a consulting/selling some service Learn more about economy and get into some real political activity Relationships Make my gf cum from anal Make a friend Body Get better abs Start doing weighter workouts Do a muscle up Get a 18cm dick Later im going to better it from the computer, for now is a reminder of my future

Good thread OP. I live my whole life with a self improvement spin. One thing I've learned is that the "default" state for most people is to just chase their impulses. Trivial things like eating fast food daily. Not keeping their home tidy. Not working out. Not keeping a rigid sleep schedule. I don't know about you, but for me, staying happy is something I have to work towards on a daily basis. Rather than a rigid daily routine, however, I live by a series of rules for myself.

Nice idea, I'll meditate a bit about what I want to do in the next months and get back with a goal schedule. The problem I always had with this kind of goals is that after I get into to the schedule for a bit, I get overconfident and burn myself trying to do ever more. Then I'm back to slacking away my days for a few months. I think this time I'll try to avoid this problem, by doing just enough.

Always think. Unless distracting, shuffle music or cinema. Routine: pause activity, begin sorting what's happened since yesterday (pause data ingestion), exercise, eat, bathe, note salient details, bed, think, dream, wake, exercise, eat, bathe, resume activity; when tired of current activity, rest or do other activity; when generally tired, begin routine. Activities (preferentially ordered): { fulfil promises, learn mathematics, learn foreign language, work on project (from preferentially ordered list), read literature (from preferentially ordered list), watch film (from preferentially ordered list), free perusal, imaginary manual auterasty } After establishing the aforementioned routine, I'd like to experiment with psychonautics. >Only thing is, I still don't know what to do with my life :/, so I don't know what to study. Mathematics. What is learned of mathematics can later be applied to many other things. Learning is more than rote memorization; if I ever forget something, I'll be able to rederive it from understanding. A good course teaches understanding (and facts). (Despite years of neglect, I continue to understand everything I've learned.) Drills aid mastery to nigh-instantaneosity. Exercises aid selfassessment. Solving ``open ended'' problems aids creativity. A good course has many of each. Gel'fand's Library of School Mathematics, Bourbaki's Elements of Mathematics, are good general courses. I've heard good things about Serge Lang's coursebooks. Hungerford's Algebra (starts with Categories), Munkres' Topology (starts with Sets), Loève's Probability (starts with Measure), Knuth's The Art Of Computer Programing (starts), are good special coursebooks. The nLab supplies about Categories. ProofWiki's definitions are (almost) elegant.

>>28297 Update! day 16/75 today, was feeling weak for a week but upped my protein and calories and I feel better. Weight isn't lowering is if it continues for another week I'll have to drop calories. And I found the first client, things are going well, finally. Other lainons should update as well

>>28761 Hey good job! I'm >>28178 I have been doing okay at it, but my college work is really stacking up... I want to try this 75Hard thing. But I can't find the full requirements for what someone needs to do with it. Can you share it, or is it just: >Follow a diet. I have yet to find what specific diet. I might just do a "japanese curry"-only diet, and see how that works out for me... As the curry diet would reduce the time it takes for me to make meals as the curry tends to last 4 - 5 days. >No alcohol >No "cheat" meals >Workout 2x a day, for 45 minutes I don't see how this is feasible for me to do as 1.5 hours is not exactly nothing. I wish I were a NEET again sometimes. But I had to stop doing some things I find fun, due to my time constraints. >Drink 4 liters of water >Read 10 pages of nonfiction a day >Take a 5 minute cold shower Another question, have you been doing the progress picture? I feel uncomfortable with the idea of doing this.

>>28762 >diet He doesn't specify, I follow my same lifing diet with eating clean and getting 150g of protein. >not feasable Well thats the point of the challenge, the mental hurdle and time management of getting 1.5 hours of workouts. >cold shower You dont need to. Its in the second phase, if youre crazy enough to do another HARDER 30 days after you finish the 75. Pic related is from his instagram and says everything

>>28763 I've exceedingly good time management. Trust me, I can squeeze another 20 minutes out of my day (which would basically mean no more lainchan) But unless I drop my sleeping down to 6 hours (which I have tried and lets just say it fuarrrked me over.) I can't get that much. There is no budging on academia taking up the majority of my waking life, mixing that in with having some kind of income and having to study so I can do research in Japan. It just won't happen... And that doesn't even include the kid I have to take care of. The ~30 minutes of working out I get per day is just going to have to be enough for me.

Goal: This day I need to write paper about comparing recurrent neural network to classical statistical models in time series forecasting. I need to fit model, calculate mse and compare mse of both approaches What I already have; I already wrote about ARIMA. I need to plot predictedtoreal values and describe why choose certain parameters. I have jupyter notebook with RNN and LSTM examples, I need to fit model, plot soykaf, compare MSE, write some conclusions

Another update time! I'm OP, I started work on a new project for my "portfolio" (public github page for recruiters to look at) and stayed up late & didn't exercise for about a week. Now it's in a satisfactory state and I have started getting up at 8:30 and exercising again. It's so hard, I have to use melatonin to get to sleep before 1 AM and I wake up the next morning groggy. But I still do it. I started studying again. mostly differential equations, I always felt like I never learned it properly. Since I keep applying to "data science" jobs I should probably start learning some more statistics... if any lains have good tips on data science/statistics primers that don't assume I'm an innumerate dunce, that would be much appreciated.

It's not exactly "getting soykaf done", but i'm trying a diet where you eat all your calories at breakfast. You're supposed to ease into it, first eating only a bit more than your normal breakfast, but then increasing the serving until it's a full day's calories. Supposedly it helps against snacking because every meal renews your appetite. That part is probably hokum, but if this diet is sustainable, it'll cut down on my overall eating/cooking time, which could save an hour or two per day. I already did day 1. Almost went out for lunch (but I caught myself before committing) and I felt "floaty" in the evening, which was not unpleasant.

OP with another update! I worked out every day for two weeks and started taking melatonin to regulate my sleep. However I decided I wanted beeg biceps so I totally over-did the bicep curls, now my left shoulder is tweaked and I've been resting it for about four days. I have to stop masturbating for it to really get better, planning to start exercising tomorrow. I also started exercising in the middle of the day, partly just because I can partly because it's a lot easier. I also finished my first math book(which I think I was already reading by the time I made that post) and started on another one, this time offline. I've been consistently spending a couple hours at least every day, reading and doing exercises. I'm really excited to be learning :) How are the other lains doing? Working on them goals?

>>28166 I get up around 4am, do 3hrs of working through some text I want to finish, go to work, come home, and do 30sec high intensity intervals on a bike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHN-4ve81TY then I do pullups, dips, pushups, and hanging leg raises not for physique but so I can wake the fuarrrk up. All together this takes about 30 to 40 minutes then I go shower with cold water. After my jello legs from the bike intervals are much better, I learned this from some Firhas Zahabi youtube video. After I'm w/the girlfriend so reset until tomorrow. On the weekends I do normal soykaf with friends/gf, but have more down time to go back over what I did that week and fix any problems like review proofs I fuarrrked up in some chapter. I still get up early, because everybody else is asleep and I have time to work. >tl;dr Things I learned - avoid exercising in the morning, instead learn at this time your brain is a sponge - on the weekend go back over what you did that week and see if there's any mistakes, often you will find some - don't diet, just eat unprocessed food and do above high intensity biker intervals for 30secs x 3 or 4 depending on your stamina - repeat everyday even on weekends - my time off is just life, sometimes you sleep in w/the girlfriend, or have to get up and do something besides studying. Those are my days off otherwise I try and exercise/study everyday and days off just come with normal life.

We're all anonymous here how are we supposed to hold each other accountable? This is a stupid thread to be honest with you. Just keep a diary and write down your daily goal.

>>29587 >3) no being an ass. Telling someone else what you're doing, even if they're anonymous, makes you feel accountable. Plus we could use tripcodes.

>>29591 oh soykaf lmao I used the wrong field for the tripcode

GOAL: Up at 8am, go for a walk, eat a healthy food, workout, get ready for the day, study, search for jobs, play a game, meditate REALITY: Get up at 8am, sleep until 9, walk, eat a healthy food, be unmotivated for the entire day, study at night until 2 am, sleep.

>>29594 lol sounds about right. At least you're doing something, that's better than nothing

>>29596 Can't expect everything to happen at once I guess. Lol

>>28891 >statistics Statistics is part of probability; Michel Loève's Probability theory establishes probability theory on the foundation of measure theory (a probability space is a normed measure space). >differential equations What course are you following for that? All the one's I've seen are either lacking all rigor, or lacking all intuition. I can somewhat deal with no intuition, but with the way I've let my life go to soykaf over the last few years, I'd be happy just to establish a daily routine where I bathe and exercise, so I'm really not up for mindless rigor. Of course, going for gormless is out of the question. Well, I guess I'll do just that: bathe and exercise daily. See you next week.

>>29640 I already know the basics of probability theory, what I'm really not clear on is the weird numbers that statisticians like to compute or their jargon, which seems to be the main thing that any of these machine learning people care about. >What course are you following for that? Arnol'd. I think it's rigorous and intuitive while sacrificing neither. I've seen differential equations at the "differential equations for engineers" level before though, and I'm pretty familiar with topology and geometry, I was really looking for a refresher.

>>29640 >All the one's I've seen are either lacking all rigor, or lacking all intuition Idk about intuition but the reason undergrad diffeq is kind of hand-wavey is doing it with any kind of rigor requires analysis and higher level linear algebra.

>>28763 >>28775 I failed the challenge on day 20, since gyms were closed again and I couldn't be assed to do 2 walks. pulled a muscle from all the walking. But my business side is getting better, landed a portfolio client and I have a call with another one

>>29594 Week 1 Update: Completely fell off the schedule. Haven't studied in days or went on a walk. Broke the healthy food habit and had take out a couple times over the last week due to the fact that it has been completely fuarrrking hot out. I am getting back to it now and will study today.

>>29930 nice! I still need to study today too. I think it's finally becoming habitual.

been seeing this thread up for a while and I'm gonna chime in, I need to change my life honestly. things can't keep going they are GOALS >Learn Programming (C/C++ and maybe getting into cybersecurity stuff >pray for atleast 2 hour a day >talk to my parents more >fix my anxiety and addictions ROUTINE >wake up >brush teeth and take shower >pray for 2 hours >learn programming by reading a book >some break and timeoff >read some more programming and then try to sleep

>>29945 >pray for atleast 2 hour a day Just curious, why do you want to pray 2 hours a day?

Goals: >Learn to at least read korean >Improve on pixel art >Get nice butt Routine: >Wake up before noon >Least 30 XP on duolingo >After breakfast/feeding animals/watering plants, make something in pixel art >Memrise lesson >Work out >Sleep before 6am I don't expect much out of myself, mostly because I'm not creative and unmotivated, but maybe a recent mood lift will help. Think work out I'll keep simple, min 30 each of squats, front and side lunges, glute lifts, and hip bridges.

>>29947 helps with my relationship with God, as a christian it is important to be in prayer

>>29937 I am realizing that the hardest part is creating the habit. It's easy to do it but hard to stick to it.

>>29948 Are you a cdcc?

Goal: >read/finish biedenharn, louck's racah-wigner algebra, AMPQ and enough to my initial 3nj problem of arbitrary coupling schemes in matlab program, likely never gonna do it bc. turns out it's much more complicated, currently at 164/655 of rwa, and 77/747 of ampq routine; never had one, never likely will but would like to go thru 4-6 pages of either, with notes, understanding fuarrrking everything and asking questions until it's clear

>>28166 I used to have a good schedule thanks to time management software like time tune and decent alarms on phone. Lately life is kicking my ass and I look like the picture in the Ted Kaczynski thread, I sleep like 3 hours per night. I have to take Xanax to sleep but I feel like crap the whole day after. Anyway, time management software is good. Or simply alarms or pomodoro timers. They really work.

how do you get tripcodes on lainchan? I know theres a way to do it on 4ch but not sure if it works on here

>>29959 Why would you want to trip on lainchan? If you need to identify yourself in a specific thread for the sake of continuity you can simply type a username.

>>29960 I don't always remember to change my username when posting, so I'd rather just have a tripcode that's easier to identify

>>29963 If you don't remember to put in the name, why would you remember to put in a tripcode?

>>29964 doesn't matter I have it now

>>29963 You should be anonymous unless you need to identify yourself in a specific thread so that people can reply directly to you. Like if you are reporting from a specific location during an event. Everyone here knows the random usernames, so if you use a distinct one across a thread it won't be any different from a trip. Nobody will try to impersonate you. I don't know if Lainchan has a specific etiquette but the point of trips or usernames on 4chan was this.

>>29966 I'm not gonna be using the trips a lot, just only for this thread so people can easily identify me and respond to me. I plan on taking it out after I'm done.

>>29587 if you can stick to that, good for you. I'd like to be among people striving for something more, to be better, and giving it an honest effort. I wouldn't be in science if I was completely alone, I'd be surviving in the woods more likely. But circumstances are what they are, and I can't hold myself accountable, and yet I'm always alone, no friends, family or close people of any kind, of people I know that share my values or priorities, worldview or even part of the knowledge I hold. I want someone to hold me to the standards I wish to hold myself and everybody else to, I want to be better, but to also help somebody else be better to. Most people want to be comfortable. People are disheartening, and utterly disappointing always.

>>29949 Don't you run out of things to pray about in a 2 hour time span? I feel like at some point you'd have to resort to just chattin' it up with God about the weather or something

DAY 1 PROGRESS Crap ... I didn't do any of the things I promised I would do. not even a day in and I'm already failing. I'll try again tomorrow but no promises honestly >>30004 if people can have podcasts for 3 hours or more and talk about things that interest them the most then whats stopping people from doing that with prayer? its not weird to me honestly

>>30004 I think it's more about reading the texts over and over so you memorize them. That's probably how people get to quote the Bible verse by verse

>>30012 its not unique to the bible, just any text in the world honestly, just memorize it

>>30012 and to be more exact, praying for long hours is totally normal

Oops. Forgot about this until today. Bathed as usual---only when I noticed myself stinking; exercised twice, maybe thrice, and only in first few days. Today and yesterday I bathed. Yesterday I exercised. That doesn't really count, because that was after remembering that I forgot about this goal. But, I'm trying, starting with the bathing or exercising I did today and yesterday, a radically lazy approach. The idea is to do something that, formally, can be recognized as that type of action, even if it's trivially minimal. For example, doing exactly one leisurely ``repetition'' of the exercise. For example, enjoying the bathing, even if I'm only rinsing myself. The idea is that because I'm severely averse to change, this small change of my activities is something that, every day, I can do as though it's just something arbitrary, and when I've done the small action every day, conceptually, I've already established that type of action as habitual; maybe it'll be the case that when the type of habit is, increasing it will feel like a minor change. I don't know if that will work, but I have read that starting small and building it up is a way to ease into the new habit. See you next week, maybe.

>>29966 Why not do it full force, using PGP? Then, at least, you can keep your identity across different messageboards, or dispose of it whenever you like. The way I see it, there are 2 (4, really, if you count your flesh or what you do completely dissociately) levels to pseudonymity: there's the ``hey, it's me'' type where you convey the idea that the posts might be related, and there's the mathematically sound identities like as PGP.

Goal: 1) get a job in the UK 2) become independent 3) own a property 4) start exercising and keep IF schedule 5) do a sensible Master's Current state: 1) live with parents 2) wake up at 9 AM cause that's the norm 3) consider having a walk during a day a success 4) graduated with no plan 5) hundreds of applications, no replies so far 6) manage to keep IF sometimes but not enough for effects ROUTINE: keep going to sleep circa 11 PM, try to keep some minor workout that will not be too hard to do, make at least 2 job applications per day, analyse Master's program, do not surf

>>29957 felt like soykaf a significant amount of days, leading to no work getting done, and either procrastination or wallowing in <general bad feeling>, at least slept some more, but the benefit therefrom are negligible when the rest is already bad currently at 184/644 of rwa, haven't progressed significantly, although my understanding of some of the rotations, the spaces and other details has become clearer, there is must more to be done. The index hell is a necessary evil. Notation is taking its toll, being alone is continuing its toll. Talked to an old dude, just to get scolded for being stupid, at least I felt some motivation to go back to the basics for the definitions to being more of a second nature, though- 3d later-, I still haven't done squat in that direction, bc. exhaustion. I disliked my residence, living conditions very much. It's all so distracting- my situation. A Teufelskreis, or wicked cicled in English. A constant fuarrrking teufelskreis everydays, everywhere, whatever i think about. I want to be far from everything. The other thing I've taken on just keeps getting worse, deadline of mid sept is nearing. Lovely.

>>29930 Week 2 Update: Slight progress being made to get back on track. Finally had a therapy appointment for the first time in a year. Made different efforts to track my health so maybe I can see in a spreadsheet how I am doing overtime.

DAY 8 Dang it man, I told myself I would wakeup everyday and take a shower and brush my teeth while praying atleast 2 hour a day but NOPE. didn't read my bible, didn't take a shower or have a better relationship with my parents. What did I do? I sat in front of a computer and did nothing, I didn't even learn how to code. DANG IT MAN I HATE THIS

I suppose it's time for an update. Progress remains consistent on the learning front. I've been reading at least a little bit every day, a couple days ago I spent almost an entire day reading and I intend to do the same tomorrow. Exercise is once every few days. Today I decided to take a nice long walk, it was very pleasant. I gave up trying to get up early. I get up at about 10 to 10:30 most days now. It's pretty good. >>30386 honestly I thought two hours a day of praying was too ambitious of a goal. The point is to set *achievable* goals and then actually do them.

arg god damn it I'm not used to tripfagging. Whatever.

>>30387 I can sit two hours in front a television no problem and never really get bored of it, so I wonder why not something as a prayer. I mostly want to do this to improve my attention span

>>30061 Well yes, you could attach your public key with a thread-specific signature to every post. But why do that when you have a more discreet tool on the board itself?

>>30061 I don't see the point

>>30394 next time you sit in front of a television, think if you should pray/learn instead. that helped me.

>>28166 Goals >Sleeping before 4 AM without pills >Following my exercise routine everyday with two days off per week >Write, maybe learn how to draw or read something >Do my homework and attend my english classes ROUTINE: >Try to minimize time spent on electronic devices (I might be addicted to the interwebz) >Wake up eat something very, very light and exercise (eating always makes me very lazy) >Spend the rest of my day reading and listening to music >Maybe do my homework with daylight (my room is always dark) Repeat ad infinitum until life is in order, hopefully. Will update today, when I wake up.

>>30410 Slept all day and ate a little bit. I'll try again tomorrow.

>>30482 It's never to late to do right. Failing at the first task of more than one, is beyond lame to give up. Also, try making concrete goals. Reading my post counts as reading, but we both know that's not what you meant. Set a minimum you're comfortable with and work from there.

Missed a bath. Almost missed an exercise. See you next week.

>>30364 it's morning only, yesterday i was angry and slept for like 4/5s of the days currently at 203/623, slight improvements but way too many distractions and the when depression kicks in and I don't get a foot in the door to stay distracted with work/study/reading, it's nigh hopeless i wish i had clone of myself, or sb with the same high standards, who's ready to put in the time, but instead i'm met with suffocating mediocrity, hypocrisy, pontification, this thread doesn't do much, i wish there existed a good accountability program, good enough to simulate the effect an accountability buddy would have

OP here. I forgot my tripcode. Anyway I just started a new job that involves a lot of manual labor, so I don't specifically do any exercise but I spend all day lifting things and moving my body and I fall asleep before midnight every night and get up at 6:30 every day. I'm usually too tired to study now but I just bought a new textbook that I am excited about(read the first few pages online, it's good). I figure once I get used to the work I'll be able to spend an hour or two every day reading and doing problems, I'll start this week. FINALLY starting to approach my goals, just in a way that I never thought I would. Feels good man.

also it's great to see so many people in this thread posting their goals and sticking to them, getting up when you fall down, and encouraging each other. I love you all lains :)

DAY 22 Hey guys prayer guy sorry for bad english , idc about it, just feel like venting here (thats my new name btw) so far it has been terrible, I can't pray for a single day without feeling tired. when I go for 2 hours I can only go for 30 minutes or 1:30 hours. Not to mentions I relapsed back into porn, and I ABSOLUTELY HATE IT (new goal btw) I was brushing and taking a shower for a while but gaved up, being persistent is harder than it looks AS OF RIGHT NOW I AM GOING TO CONTINUE TO PRAY 2 HOURS, TAKE A SHOWER, BRUSH MY TEETH AND NOT BE TEMPTED BY PORN, PLEASE LORD HELP ME, thanks you all for reading my blog.

going good, my new book is great and I read 60 pages in 1 day today. I have a plan of study for the next few weeks too. So exciting!! >>31029 praying for 2 hours sounds exhausting. The fact that you do it at all is impressive... keep going lainon, that's what we call gradual improvement :)

>>31030 Thanks, I hope the best for you too. I'm praying not only for my life but also the practice of staying consistent, for decades I would be a slacker (games, TV, movies and books) but anything new is tiring for me, hopefully we all make it out. One tip I would give you is to go in your closet when reading to feel better, read at morning so it doesn't feel like a chore if you want

DAY 23 Last night was amazing as I prayed with my mother, but only an hour tho. I took a shower, and brushed my teeth. I did not read or watch a video on programming, but I did create a github page and twitter account in order to motivate myself to code (doing #100codingchallenge), I have a project in mind to do. Things are not going well with my mom, something big happened to our family and she is going through so much :( I hope things get well for her and us.

>>28166 I decided to get my soykaf together and fix my life. I'll start working on my goals once I finish an annoying task. Overview of my goals: - waking up and going to sleep earlier to gain energy - work in progress - doing some basic exercises to stay healthy - dropping people undermining my core goals - spending more time with people I love - self-studying more cell biology and genetics - reading that boring library manual to fix my program I want to become stronger, lainons. I want to protect those I love. I have one chance in this life, you must help me.

>>31142 Day 1 I got up earlier today and finished about 1/3 of the annoying task that's between me and my self-improvement.

What does a NEET do if life doesn't allow me to do 'goals'? If I set my only goal "To get up and play vidya" life would break my game station to make it impossible to complete that goal. (I wish this was j/k. It actually happened. I switched it off in the early morning. Tried to switch it on after getting up and it never booted up again.) goal: spend time outside result: Injured and unable to go outside. goal: read website document result: site down and unreachable. Site was never down before. goal: move files between servers. result: servers decide on that day they will not speak to each other. Servers could see each other to communicate the day before, and no settings changed, no updates made. goal: post in this thread result: error message fml

>>31169 >goal: post in this thread *I can't post what I wanted to because it says I'm a spammer (wtf?), so had to delete my goal of what I wanted to write. fml

>>31169 >>31170 goal: get a useful reply result: half a week later no one posted in thread. Thread is buried behind 100+ threads. fml

So it was on my list to get my soykaf together, but I had some time off and chose to (somewhat unsuccessfully) relax for a few weeks. So my goal is to return to my winter-time routine and improve it in some ways. 1) Sleep at most at 12 and wake up at 8. 2) Read a fiction/non-fiction book for at least 30 minutes a day. 3) Create a small programming project every week. I have many of them in limbo, so I should start finishing them. More specifically try to spend at least 1 hour programming or researching computer science stuff, with a focus on the practical side. 4) Be in nature at least once a week. Hiking or work on fields. 5) Have 3 sessions of weight-lifting and 2 sessions of yoga each week. 6) Start learning Russian, continue learning Japanese. 7) Spend less time watching or reading soykaf. I spend a lot time lately dozing off on the Internets. 8) Completely quit porn. I guess that'll do for a while. Given the fact that I have a low maintenance income for a while, I shall make myself fit for more hectic periods. To everyone else keep up the good deed, and don't be disappointed by failure. Focus on the things you achieved instead and motivate yourselves for more.

Day 27 Been praying for a little while and its getting better. sadly I realized that I spent a lot of time on the internet and need to start cutting out my time, I need to control what goes in and what goes out. Learning C++ is hard even tho I'm the first chapter and getting into harder things, problem with me is I'm impatient

another week, another update time! I just read for a while and learned a cool new theorem. I've been reading much slower now that I have work but enough that I don't think I could possibly do any more and actually learn anything (studying when tired is no bueno). Been making good money at my job, pretty consistently $600/week. And since I don't pay rent atm that's mostly going in to savings. Feels good, and I suppose I'm a lucky fuarrrker for getting to do that. I also seem to get up very early in the morning on my own now, no alarm required. I just wake up around 6:00 AM most days. On weekends I just lay in bed feeling comfy until I feel like getting up. Disadvantage is that I now get very tired by around 10:00 PM. >>31169 you seem to have a mindset like the world is out to get you. It also seems like most of the problems you cite are due to technical problems. If you want to actually solve those problems, you can do it with enough elbow grease(speaking from experience). If you don't, this isn't the place to vent about them, instead you should go to the /vent/ thread. >>31301 wow, those are some daunting goals lainon! I believe you can do it though. Specifically quitting porn I've been thinking about a lot these days. >>31308 awesome results. C++ is a huge language, when I was first learning it I would try to do little projects and get stuck reading docs for hours.

>>31308 Hey Lain, just remember to start small and be flexible. Can't tell you how much being rigid has messed me up. Jut remember to jump straight back into it if you mess up since you'll be stronger for it once you continue your streak. As for CPP, check out this tutorial series, it's easily the best one I've found and I find taking physical notes whilst following a video to be the best method of learning a new language or technology. https://youtu.be/18c3MTX0PK0 If this is your first language then consider something like Python to learn the basics. But up to you, Lain.

>>28795 update: i wrote this model. Its pretty useless, but i got idea for another maybe better model: stream orderbook with websockets, collect data and then model future prices on current orderbook snapshot. There is no free historical data, so i need write script that will stream current data with websocket and save it into some sort of database (maybe nosql). Then deploy it on server. This model i was talking about was part of homework. I submitted homework, but teacher still wants some data visualisation. I am not sure what he expects, some things he wants me to do are already in paper, so i am not sure he did read it carefully. I hate doing things just for school (instead of: for school and for idea), so i procrastinate that. I have few different ideas about projects, programs, whatever, but i feel bad not finishing this paper, because deadline is in month. So i am ending up doing nothing. My life now is incredibly stressful, i have half a year left to get IT internship, and i dont have health insurance anymore because i am 25. Also i started playing Mafia 1 recently, such a great GTA clone, probably most advanced until GTA IV. So i am playing video game during night, during day i send CV and help parents (mother has sciatica). Everything is like kicking dead whales down the beach, feels bad man to be honest

>>31799 GOAL: -finish this damn paper -write python script for continous api consumption with websocket, choose correct database, deploy it on server -write python script for automatic CV sending on linkedin easy apply, using selenium (maybe) -write post on hackernews, detailing my niggardly freelance experience. I need freelance/remote tasks, anything really, i need money and experience. I am thirdworlder so i can work for bad money. I am good in python: automation, webscraping, some simple machine learning. I also can write REST api, and frontend to it if needed, basic webapp experience -find a work/internship until april next year, honestly my hope is very low. If i wont get a job until then i think i am going to kill myself -it would be nice to write compiler, maybe some simple forth? Metatrader has own embedded language, i would like to write something like that -understand how reinforcement learning is related to trading (eugene durenard was talkign about that)

DAY 40 sorry bros, I failed. I promised to learn C++ but somehow I gaved up after missing a couple of days, my anxiety creeped up on me and boredom & uselessness made me relapse back into porn, now idk if I should stick to C++ or look into fullstack web dev (I hate myself for thinking like this). relationship with my mom has been great, altho she is extremely lazy (as I am too) and sometimes forgets to do the things she said she would do. But we pray everynight now and she has told me that it makes her sleep better (idk how). I want a time machine, my sense of failure isn't based on me being lazy currently, it's me being lazy for years and on, I need a HARD reset. I did take a shower and brush my teeth but only like a couple of times as I would go back and conform to my old ways and just prefer to sit in front of the computers and just surf. I don't know if anybody reads these anymore or even cares but i'll keep posting >>31637 >>31786 Thanks for the tips and encouragements

>>31831 I read them lainon. Your efforts are not in vain and do not go unnoticed. The days are flying by for me! I've felt really distracted and scatterbrained for the past few days. I got a little in trouble at work because of it. Probably not enough that I'll get fired (expectations are low) but enough that I can't keep fuarrrking up. I think I just need a partner? I've been really lonely and daydreaming about girls a lot. I bit the bullet a couple hours ago and put bumble on an old phone I don't use any more. I have no real expectations for that. Anyway, learning has proceeded steadily. I have to return a library book soon, which is like kicking dead whales down the beach because I really want to read one of the chapters, but alas I guess I will have to skim it and find another book to learn from. I wish I could work like 3 days a week and spend the rest studying. Alas this is not in the cards for me right now.

Here's my plan: wake, do 10 burpees, eat, bathe, complete next section schoolwork, then have fun the rest of the day. Technically today I can't complete that, because I already woke up and had some fun, but I'm just going to do it all right now for the sake of following through immediately. Also, I think it would be better for me to check in daily rather than weekly, because last time I tried this thread weekly, I totally forgot after the third day. Having to come back every day and write whether I did it should keep me on track better.

>>32164 ✓

>>31831 failure is part of the plan, don't give up accept yourself and just keep trying there is a world between what you think and what you are just don't think it can't be done and don't think you have to work hard you have to work fun

>failure is part of the plan, don't give up What kind of idiot are you? Failure is the thing you want to avoid. For example, the failure that is wasting your life because you never tried. That's the ultimate failure. If you go out and you try to do something and fail, that's less of a failure than simply not doing anything---but it's still failure. It means you're doing something wrong, so figure it out, try something else. >there is a world between what you think and what you are No, there's your hands between what you think and what you are. Your actions. Your work. If you don't do anything about it, you won't realize it, and it'll remain idle fantasy until the day you rot in your grave. >don't think you have to work hard Sometimes you have to work hard. If that's the case, it's better to be prepared for the labor: to know the labor is ahead and there's nothing you can do about it but get it done as quick as possible. Most often, though, you can to figure out how to do it so it's easy. I much prefer finding the clever easy-after-thinking-about-it solution.

looks like it's update time! How is everyone else doing with their goals? I may have developed carpal tunnel and I'm trying to rest my hand, so I haven't been able to do upper-body exercise (or work). Additionally I've been getting up late. On the other hand I reliably study for an hour or two every day, which is good I suppose. I need to start setting my alarm again.

I'm neet once again and I want to be more productive for self improvement until I find a new job >Wake up 7:30 am >Drink vitamins >Meditate for 30 minutes >Mental exercise >Physical exercise >Fiction reading >Break (Surf the internet/check messages) >Study for 2 hours straight (when having a hard time, juggle it to 4 part-30 min study routine) >Break for one hour >French >Sketch/Paint >Break >Nonfiction reading >Sleep I know this is a simple routine, I hope this works for me, lainons. Dropping your updates would motivate me a lot honestly, I'll update next week. Until then, see you.

>>28166 In UK, doing two Master's at once (will surely drop out from non-CS), dependent as fuarrrk on parents, IF works cause living alone, sadly still no replies to jobs. I don't know if I am on some list that nobody wants to employ me or what. If anyone has ideas/tips about finding a job in the current state of the world. It's really fuarrrked up and bad for my mental health when everyone you know has careers. Also met a girl and that was nice, but sadly had to move out and also she was not really relationship material. Still, fuarrrking hit me like a truck. Still waking up at 9 AM, even 10 AM, usually sleep 10 hours or more, IDK how to get out of that state, I guess it is just depression induced by isolation which will take care of itself sooner or later. Also don't really work out beyond long walks. Should add pushups and other prison level workout Owning a property went away as learned more about the market, maybe long-term I'll move to living in a van or something like that. That is not really a "now" thing as my current place is fine. So revised post is: 1) get a job in the UK 2) become independent 3) exercise more 4) have regular and earlier sleep schedule 5) write a blogpost with a deadline on every Saturday (any topic acceptable) Current state: 1) Renting out a room (quite small and really comfy) 2) Dependent on family as fuarrrk 3) Consider having a walk good success 4) Studying two Master's preferring part time CS 5) hundreds of applications, got one interview 6) managing IF without much thought 7) Isolation induced depression

>>33748 fuarrrk referenced the wrong post >>30072 ^ that is me ^ will be thankful for any good advice

I might try this for once. GOAL: Prepare for the HSK 4 test. ROUTINE: Read a lesson a day from the HSK Standard Course, listen to the audio, do the excercises as well as those from the workbook. I am starting with the HSK3 book to make sure I'm on solid footing. At 20 lessons per book, if it takes me at most 2 days per lesson, in 80 days (<3 months) I should be done. In practice, I may get days without the chance to study, or later lessons may be longer so it may take me as much as 3 days to complete each with the workbook. So as an upper bound let's make it 3 days per lesson, total 120 days or ~4 months. This is still enough time before the date I have set for myself to do the exam.

>>33576 that looks like a good routine lain! I think I should get a structured routine like that, right now I'm essentially doing whatever when I feel like it and it's definitely not working. Being jobless is like kicking dead whales down the beach even with a safety net. Damn economy. I'm going to start this routine today. 8:00-9:00: breakfast, web surfing, etc 9:00-12:00: study 12:00-1:00: exercise and shower 1:00-2:00: job search 2:00-5:00: either learning a language, more study, or programming 5:00-5:30: short walk around the neighborhood 5:30-8:00: do chores, drink beer, eat dinner, etc. 8:00-10:30: play video games with friends 10:30: lights out a key part of this is trying to cut down on screen time. Only in the morning and at night will I be using computers for recreation. I usually only focus a little bit on a screen while studying, even if the resource I'm using is digital. Nothing like being on the internet or watching a video. >>33748 >I don't know if I am on some list that nobody wants to employ me or what. If anyone has ideas/tips about finding a job in the current state of the world. I sometimes feel that way too. However I recently updated my resume a lot and I am hopeful that my new & improved resume might drastically improve my chances at getting hired. You have to keep in mind that, in literally every industry, every job gets hundreds or even thousands of qualified applicants, except for the absolute worst jobs. I think it's pretty much dumb luck if you get an interview these days, and it's a matter of how well you interview once you get to that stage. Good luck lain! >>33750 hell yeah! What is the HSK 4?

I get soykaf done and persue goals but then every so often it blows up in my face and I suffer like the hanged man in the tarot cant get visa extened for country I was working in get arrested have a road accident have my vehicle impounded etc etc my set backs are more like ass kickings. Im just taking it all in my stride now maybe ill meet goals maybe i wont. f society

>>33755 >hell yeah! What is the HSK 4? Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, 汉语水平考试, Chinese language test. Also I like your digits. Note that it's a symmetrical number, the digits of which are all primes. The sum of the digits is 23, Hail Eris!

>>33750 >>33763 Update I guess. I just finished reading lesson 9 on the HSK 3 coursebook. I'll be going through the audio later. Workbook tomorrow. I've slowed down the pace so I don't get overwhelmed, some days I do all the lesson with audio and excercises in one day. Leaves me quite tired even if it's easy, it's also stressful, and leaves me no time for other stuff like reading about mushrooms. I've been noticeably improving my listening with the workbook audio. There are still times when I can't understand jack soykaf, but sometimes I understand the whole question on first listening. I haven't fallen behind schedule, though I am eager to start the hsk4 book which is after all the one I'll be taking. Oh and the pace of the books make it easy to acquire the patterns and vocabulary, it's weird for a book designed for a test to actually be useful but this one has been quite helpful. Also thanks to the internet for having all this material available. If anyone is reading this, know that you'll be able to learn anything if you realy put yourself into it. Actually this availability of knowledge has made me want to learn many things, including linux kernel development. I still want to, but chinese alone is a big enough challenge to take. The moral here is to limit yourself to one main subject at a time. It is much more effective than having 10 topics and jumping between them (unless they are all tightly related of course.) Again if anyone cares, know that if I can learn chinese, you too can learn whatever it is you want, regardless of how daunting it may seem!

Wew I forgot to exercise or practice the alphabet for two days in a row. But also got a lot done today so that's good.

>>34130 Don't worry, by writing that post and possibly reading this, that's practicing the alphabet.

GOAL: Genocide of the Germanic race HOW: Create a NazBol party, promote hate against Germans, grab power, commence the genocide. ROUTINE: - Write at least one anti-German comment per day - Do some research on how to create and run a political party - Set up a network of influential people who can be useful in my quest - Research how to influence elections in my favor - Research how to grab power without the need to win the elections - Research how to avoid my party getting derezzed

>>34166 I'm glad you haven't offed yourself, nazbol schizo lainon.

>>34109 I'm halfway through lesson 12 excercises and it's already late. I'm lagging a bit, but I guess I'm still on track. The main goal of improving my listening seems to be going well. It's been forever since I learn new characters. Which is fine, I'll be reviewing a lot when I start the next book, many of which I already forgot.

DAY 97 Sorry bros, I failed. I promised that I would change my behavior and do something important, and what happened? I FAILED BIGLY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I didn't brush my teeth like I said I would, but I did get an electric toothbrush and a whitening toothpaste. I also didn't take a shower everyday (starting now). MY LIFE HAS BEEN TOTAL HELL FOR NOW AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG, I watched porn and relapsed recently, I hated it. and worst of all, didn't pray for 2-3 hours a day or learn C++ like I was supposed to. I plan on posting everyday in here in order to keep up

>>34576 yeah, I've been falling behind too mate :( but look at the rules in the OP: no giving up. We start turning it around today. I'm gonna get more coffee and start reading.

>>34576 >>34577 Ya all need to learn humility. Dont chase big goals or move goal post after you made the small goal to bigger goal. You're creating a disappointment loop with it that merely increases your chance to fail. Get happy over the smallest progress and take that as inspiration to do more. This is proven in psych and not just brahscience.

>>34576 Nobody wants to hear about your porn or flossing habits 97 days in a row... As for C++, sepples is a real drag to learn I'll give you that. It would help to already know how to code in another language. As far as I can tell from first-glance this website https://www.programiz.com/cpp-programming/input-output is less-bad than "LearnCPP", but that isn't saying much. In the long run however you will end up reading lots of different sources. C++ language keeps evolving over the years and isn't used the same way as it was within living memory. :/

>>34577 Good to hear mate, I too turn it around >>34580 in all honesty, this isn't that much of a big goal IMO. It only takes a couple of hours, then after that I'm free >>34581 yea, that is too boring. I will keep a journal of somekind, like a bullet journal or something in order to not relapse, any ideas Is welcomed

>>34580 my goals are modest, mostly they're just basic self-care. I haven't been doing that.

>>34581 Also wanted to add, I only want to learn C++ because it's one of the most well known languages. After C++ I can pretty much learn any other languages that I want

>>34582 Setting goals you cant reach is overshooting by definition. Concentration is a general problem because we all train artificial adhd with the way we use the net. Multiple browser tabs goin back forth, 2nd screen running something else for passive consumption, phone notification. Its one giant distraction bubble.

>>34585 That is true, I browse the Internet A LOT, it's one of the worst experience I have done a lot of things that I regretted. That being said, I don't think that it's more than just "internet bad" mentality, it's more of just self control. Lots of old people and old people sit in front of their computers in their cubicles and have no having a social life or being messed up as we are. It's all about priorities

>>34586 I think relying on self control is not a solution. You cant change your self control easy and if you had enough you wouldnt do useless things in first place. So the only realistic choice is changing your enviroment to modify your behaviour. That works instantly and is more reliable therefore.

>>34576 Sorry to hear that my dude. Hang in there... If you may, I can give you some "life hacks" I use for those things. I try to "chain" as much tasks as possible, in a way that makes me actually really enjoy doing them: * I try to exercise everyday so I end up craving a bath. After exercising, I'm so greasy/dirty that taking a bath is a nice relaxing reward. This might be my OCD tho * Put your toothbrush and toothpaste in the shower. When I take a bath, the water is so nice and warm that I never want to get out, so as a way of staying more in there I brush my teeth, that way my brain says "I don't have to get out of the shower yet, I still need to brush my teeth ;)" * Studying code is boring as f uck. Like painfully boring... but coding not so much. And you will love it if its a project you look forward to do. Try to find a very very very simple cool idea you can do on C++ and try coding it and learning how to do it on the go. My first coding project was a text-based RPG (just a single battle) and I knew nothing about coding, but ended up learning a ton and getting interested in learning more, since I wanted to expand my little game, make it more efficient, etc...

>>34591 Horribly formatted, but I hope it helps...

>>34576 Hang in there m8, every failure is an opportunity to review your strategy and see why you're failing, and think of a better strategy. Usually, it is best to pick one little habit and make it your first thing of the day. Making your bed, for example. Also remember the "eat the frog" thing. Pick 3 things that you absolutely must do for the day, and set yourself to get them done as soon as possible. Also 2 hours of prayer sounds exhausting. Better make it 20 minutes. Get some beads and make them a sort of talisman, so that when you grab 'em, you start your prayers, and when you're finished, you let them go. >>34449 Shit I'm narely on lesson 14 after having posted this. I need to speed up the pace! I need to at least finish this book and start with the actual one that's relevant to my goal!

Well, i'm new to lainchan and have been trying to become well versed in hardware and sofware, as well as physics. So i think this should do: Goals: -Be able to understand the advantages of recent hardware releases over the past ones -Be able to code projects in python and c# -learn calculus -Understand technology related forums(i would apreciate advice, if it did not trouble you guys) Routine: -Study Computer architecture and organization via textbooks and youtube videos(2h) -Read Python and c# books or documentation(1h) -Solve calculus exercises and study(2h) -Make use of the internet to research subjects i find here and don't understand (Sorry if this was cluttered it's my first post)

>>28166 Wew, some of you anons really have your soykaf together. Not sure if cause NEET, or out of school, or what, but damn. I'm in my 4th year of uni and although it isn't hard it just really consumes a lot of my times. I also work two jobs not "career" jobs; "pay the bills" jobs, but most of my shifts end up being ~5 hours so instead of having large chunks of freetime or a single free day it's interspersed throughout the week. Makes it really easy to put off productive work when I can just say "only an hour til x, better hold off on starting something new". Right now I eat "healthy" on weekdays; no real diet, just avoiding processed food and eating out. I could eat better, but I eat decently enough that I feel alright about it. On weekends (or at least Fridays), I splurge since that's my one night out with friends. I also do ~30 minute home workouts on M/W/F. Got off the train a bit thanks to Halloween and midterms, but I got back on today. I was playing a lot of vidya, but the past few days I toned it down (in fact I haven't played at all) and started reading books/news instead. I guess for my goals would be >add in 30m cardio on off-days (Tues/Thurs), whether it be a jog or some Ring Fit on Switch don't hate, it's a surprisingly decent workout when you crank up the difficulty >only drink on weekends and/or socially; I recently got in the rut of a beer a night and need to get out before I start getting a beer belly >no vidya 8am-6pm on weekdays; fill in any gaps with exercise, reading, studying, or extracurricular coding And I suppose that's it. Kinda unrelated, but I just found out about the screen time feature on iPhone and it's a great way to cut out time wasting apps from your schedule. I set downtime from 8am-6pm and disabled all nonessential apps. You can easily bypass it if need be, but the simple act of having a warning flashed in your face when you try to open one is enough to prevent me from mindlessly wasting time on my phone. Just figured I'd throw that out there if any other anons have had issues with using their phones too much. >>34715 >Understand technology related forums(i would apreciate advice, if it did not trouble you guys) How do you mean exactly? Also, perhaps only tangentially related, but slashdot and hacker news are two other great sites for tech related info. Definitely check them out if you want a streamlined site with quality content.

>>28166 Goal - Lose 100 lbs and be ready for community college in august of next year Routine - Study 10 pages out of my GED daily. Limit caloric intake to 2000 initially, apply and call on jobs on monday and tuesday, exercise 20 minutes every other day of the week.

>>28166 GOAL; Survive the next week of school and grading. ROUTINE: After today (staying up late for a midterm / taking notes), I'll go to bed at 11:30PM. Wake up at 7:30AM, be out of bed by 8:00AM (This is the hardest part of waking up for me, I wake up, but I slack around on my phone reading the news too much). Once I make it through the next week school takes a month-long break, during which I'll begin working in earnest on some of my more ambitious programming projects. After waking up, I will read 30 pages of a book I'm interested in. Then, I'll allocate between 5 and 7 hours a day for programming. The rest of the day will be pursuing other interests, like drawing, biking. FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION.

Day 103 Sup guys, I relapsed a few days ago and I felt bad, but today it's going good. I studied a bit of c++ and learned a few thing (here's some example) #include "std_lib_facilities.h" int main() { cout << "Please enter two names\n"; string first; string second; cin >> first >> second; //read two string if (first == second) cout << "that's the same name twice\n"; if (first < second) cout << first << " is alphabetically before " << second << '\n'; if (first > second) cout << first << " is alphabetically after " << second << '\n'; } #include "std_lib_facilities.h" int main() { cout << "Please enter a floating-point value: "; double n; cin >> n; cout << "n == " << n+1 << "\nn+1 == " << n+1 << "\nthree times n == " << 3*n << "\ntwice n == " << n+n << "\nn squared == " << n+n << "\nhalf of n == " << sqrt(n) << endl; //another name for newline ("end of line") } as for my prayer life ... not too bad. I spent the whole day yesterday reading and studying the first chapter of psalms, felt pretty good. I also failed at fasting, if anyone has some tips on fasting then please provide. My relationship with my mom has been dry, but I plan on doing something BIG to bring our family together (stay tuned) didn't brush my teeth today but I plan on brushing it tonight with my "whitening" toothpaste. idk it's bad to brush your teeth only at night, but I want to brush it EVERYDAY, also did not take a shower (sigh) I plan on learning german ... is that a good idea or not? thanks for reading my blog

I've been slacking for a long time. I don't really know why... I think living with my parents and having nothing in particular to be doing has messed with me. I feel as though I have these cycles of depression. But I started exercising again a couple days ago and I'm slowly getting back into the habit, I already feel stronger. I just do it at some random time during the day for about half an hour now. I haven't started going on walks again but I will tomorrow. I also stopped watching/reading porn at night, it was messing with my sleep. I'm pretty much done with grad school applications, really looking forward to that. I hope so much I get in somewhere, I really would rather be an overworked grad student than a layabout like I am now. I did a lot of things better this time around than last time. I'm optimistic. The big thing is that I still cannot find the motivation to study. I have a big list of books and papers that I want to read eventually but whenever I think about it I feel like I just can't, my mind is in a fog. I spend my days browsing the 'net, playing video games, sometimes applying to jobs, sometimes coding, but never studying. I want to change it but I know for this one it's not so simple as "just do it", there is some kind of mental block that I need to get over. >>34724 I was in a similar situation in a lot of uni. Having such a sporadic work schedule is really draining and I hate it. I'm still trying to get a "pay-the-bills job" but it's hard to find something I can do with my injury. Basically I have no dexterity or lifting ability in my right hand any more and I can't see a doctor about it for 3 more months. I'm lucky I can still mooch off my parents for the time being. >>34850 >idk it's bad to brush your teeth only at night, but I want to brush it EVERYDAY that's what I do. Brush and floss every night. It works good. I just don't see the point of brushing in the morning if I usually eat & drink more tea like an hour later, I think it would just wear away at the enamel more. >I plan on learning german ... is that a good idea or not? depends what you want to do with it. Do you have a goal in mind for learning German?

>>34851 > I want to change it but I know for this one it's not so simple as "just do it", there is some kind of mental block that I need to get over. you are addicted to dopamine and instant gratification. you have to block and remove all time sinks or you will just waste time forever. take drastic measures. delete steam, uninstall your games. block websites via router and then change the password. once those gnawing time wasting habits are not there anymore and completely inaccessible, you will be so bored studying will be fun.

>>34852 it is not that. I used to have all these same addictions (plus a weed habit) but I still studied all the time, because I get bored of all this crap anyway. There's a special mindset I need to be in to study and it has been elusive. I literally sit down to study and give up after ten minutes.

Sorry if my post doesn't fit the pattern, I don't usually browse /hum/, I just needed to vent about this and I thought you'd likely be the only ones who'd relate to this on some level. I've struggled with having a routine for a while now but in the last 1 to 2 weeks I managed to improve greatly at it, mostly because my finals are approaching and I have a bunch of projects, so I forced myself to keep doing something all day long, even if every 20 minutes or so I'd take a break. I was happy because I was being surprisingly productive, this makes me feel satisfied like nothing else, like I'm finally getting somewhere in life, but a few days ago I crashed, I just couldn't get anything done, if I tried reading something my mind didn't register it at all. Ok, I took it as a day off and resumed the next day, but today I crashed much harder, with what I assume is a panic attack, and I have some deadlines I'll miss, which only makes things worse. I know this will likely sound very immature but it's hard to analyse things rationally in a state like this one and the reason I'm posting this is because I thought I had finally surpassed this soykaf, I had finally put my life on track enough to be a normal person, that's not asking so much. Before those 2 weeks of productivity I had already been improving, but just like in past experiences it seems that I always crash at some point, as if I have a hardcoded trigger to ruin everything. I have no idea what the fuarrrk to do, I tried playing it smoothly, thinking if I slowly got used to a routine I could gradually increase its intensity, but once again it has all been for nothing and at this time of the year this might very well been failing classes I'd otherwise find to be a breeze, waste a bunch of money and humiliate myself (the projects with a deadline I mentioned earlier will make it hard for me to get a decent grade). Again, I know this will sound childish to those of you who already have jobs, a more structure life or something of the sort, but what I'm trying to get at here is why the fuarrrk do I always crash after a while? This can't be normal. I've been (forcedly) to shrinks in the past due to other things and they've never diagnosed me as being mentally ill or anything, despite not being exactly normal, but this is really eating away at me. I make an effort for weeks, somethings months, to become better and it's always for nothing. With the pardon of what might be a cliche, I feel like Elliot from Mr. Robot in those moments when he just crawls in a corner and cries himself to sleep, but this is probably the panic attack. The issue is this is not the first time I'm going through this, and it seems whenever I make some progress in life this thing rears its ugly head in and makes me lose everything I struggled for and humiliates me in the process. Wasn't it supposed to get better if I just eased myself into a routine? I've lost count of how many times I failed by now. I'm doing all the right things: sleeping on time, eating well, exercising, spending time outside, I even did a huge battery of blood tests to ensure everything's fine, and theoretically there shouldn't be any issues at all, my health is even above average. Yet this continues to happen. I'm starting to become afraid this is genetic and I'm never escaping it, since my father had panic attacks as well. But in his case he went to expensive psychiatrists who didn't do soykaf but put him on a bunch of expensive meds, that soykaf turned him into a zombie, I can barely recognize him anymore, and I refuse to do that to myself. I just want to understand what the fuarrrk is wrong with me. Sorry for the length.

>>34952 After that other day I forced myself to not do anything productive for a day and it helped, I was worried about not meeting some deadlines but I had to force myself to accept that kind of thing was bound to happen since I had some breaks in my routine a while back. Instead of freaking out over it I should see it as a wake up call regarding the need for a good routine, which includes off time, as you put it yourself. What likely helped me get to the point I was losing it the other day was having too much coffee, it fuarrrks me up but I gulped it in hopes of increasing my productivity, but at some point facing the bare truth is necessary. If things are going awry there's a reason for it and complaining won't solve it, but looking for lessons to be extracted from it might prevent future instances of it. Thanks for the reply.

>>30072 >>33748 Update, again. Will keep trying to update every 2 months as this sound as sensible interval as it is out of plain predictability. Got a job, really good one at it. Opportunities come where you do not expect them. It is always worthy to work on employable skills as they might show returns. Two Master's and a job got me real busy and time passes really quickly. Had to move out of that place cause circumstances, now have a nicer place. With that girl, I don't know, still hit like a truck and slowly coming to terms although its difficult to close this thing like that. Regarding the job, I think I am on clean way on becoming independent. The workout schedule is still not-a-thing but walking out more regularly cause the area is much nicer. With IF it works as living alone makes it work. Still sleeping too much although generally just having difficulties getting out of bed cause suffering out of possibly lost possibility of relationship. Human mind is just pure madness. So the list is: 1) exercise more (intensively) 2) plan days as time is limited 3) have regular and more sensible sleep schedule 4) work more on creative pursuits outside of work/uni 5) Limit screen hours to minimum are there are days where I _have_ to have more than 9 hours screentime even due to work and uni and sitting more is just bad for a lot of things. 6) read more as otherwise no new solutions will come easily 7) read less news (especially on computer as they have no use) 8) watch less porn and try to find less problematic ways to cope with stress which is obvious thing in my lifestyle Current state: 1) Renting a room 2) Working a job 3) Studying two Master's, still preferring CS 4) Not as much depression as too busy for that 5) Still managing IF with surprising effects but cannot measure them sensibly. Eating mainly vegetarian stuff with occasional going out with only local friend. 6) Having a long walk pretty much every day 7) Still sleeping a bit too much, but that does not impact my work. Always open to any suggestions, ideas, opinions. I wish everyone good luck on their journeys and that they will achieve their goals, or be capable to recognize their situation.

Day 131 Just applied for a job, waiting for a response, if anything happens then I will properly update this thread

>>36201 Nice. I realized last night, I need to make some major lifestyle changes. I know that my parents will silently judge me for anything though. I need to get out of this house, they are making me into an alcoholic. But I seriously have no job prospects after 5 months of looking and it makes good financial sense to stay.

Day 132 Nope, got rejected. The good news is I have the chance to apply for another position, but at this point I don't even care. I hated that company the first minute I was taking the "appointment" didn't even have a human ask me any questions, just sat in front of a computer answering A, B, C's questions. What a cyberpunk hellhole this world come to also gonna use tripcodes from now on

HSK lain here in case anyone cares. I got tired after lesson 15 and I pretty much didn't study for maybe 2 weeks, perhaps more. I was supposed to finish the first book last month. On the up side, I got back on track, and managed to work through 3 chapters this week alone. Now it's 2 more lessons to go, plus the mock exams, and I'm ready to start the lvl-4 book which is the one that I will actually be taking. I've been busy with other stuff. My home, for one thing. But I came to talk about study. I have grew fond of first-year university books, you know, those that still look like high school books. I started Stewart Calculus, I expect to read a set of books I have on classic l mechanics, astronomy, and then astrophysics. But I gotta bootstrap my calculus first. On that topic, I want to ask for advice. Stewart Calc is >1500 pages, and I will grow a long, gray beard beore I finish it. I don't want to be impatient, but the whole point is to get to the astrophysics book, all this is prereq knowledge. How does one manage to learn a subject without spending his better years on a whole stack before I can even touch the surface of the actual goal? Thank you.

>>36230 Stewart is excessively longwinded and if you're motivated Spivak is a better book anyway. >How does one manage to learn a subject without spending his better years on a whole stack before I can even touch the surface of the actual goal? they don't. Knowledge is not easy to attain.

I'll join in lainons. My goal is to get a better sleep cycle. Routine I should have: >shower at 11 >smoke cannabis >screens off by 12 >in bed by 1, latest What I've been doing: >shower at 2AM >play vidya >screens off at 4 >drink alcohol >bed at 6 Today, I woke up at 10AM after four hours of sleep and decided I need to be held accountable for screwing around. Drank espresso, threw up, and am now posting this. Tonight I aim to shower by 12, smoke some cannabis in the shower and take melatonin, have my screens off by 2, and be in bed by 3:30. Will post daily updates. I eventually want to be able to sleep sober, but I haven't been able to manage it. Even when I was a teenager that couldn't access booze and drugs I would drink nyquil to sleep. I have terrible insomnia caused by years of staring at screens and I absolutely need to change it.

>>39531 good idea. I've been setting alarms for 8:30 AM recently. If you *have* to wake up at a certain time it's not so hard.

>>39532 I was somewhat successful, but ended up going to bed at 4. Will update again tomorrow. Currently going to shower and am on track to sleep by 3:30

you can't stop now, keep going

>>39934 That's what I told myself last time too.

I shouldn't be posting on lainchan right now, yet here I am. Upcoming exams which I will certainly fail if I don't start cramming right now but it is so painful to do anything. I say to myself "You have to start doing something, right now, you will fail if you don't", then I stare at the ceiling and start distracting myself again. Why is it so incredibly difficult for me to start with anything... Does anyone have a trick how to actually bring up the willpower to go through with a schedule for something, especially learning, and not be distracted all the time?

>>39934 Oh god the dishes are one of my worst nightmares, its one of the few reasons against home cooked meals for me.

Hey guys, it's me again. It has been going not so good my addiction has gotten the best of me, I feel so sad and ashamed. I want to stop, I don't want to keep doing what I'm doing. Please God help me. In my next Update I plan on diving deeper into what happened, my mom is paranoid and I think she's got schizophrenia. I don't know what to do, I want to help her but there is no hope. I just want things to be normal around me, I want to be helped I want help ... I need help. I want someone to understand the struggle I go through. Please help me live, I don't want my mother to suffer from mental illness. ever since my "it" happened she's been losing her mind, holy crap humans are stupid. Why would someone do this to my mother? I have been learning C++ for 5 days in a row now, atleast 1 hour a day. I so far have been making progress, I hope that after this week and the weeks next I can make it and be able to program, I can hope to become a developer and make some good money and maybe then my family will be proud.

My promise; keep my intermitent fasting for two more weeks(I'm currently one week in) stop smoking,two weeks as well, start making 30 mins of exercise in the morning , plus go out to a walk with my dog. The two week thing is for keep accounting more easily. Please give support, love this community.

DAY 262 I have officially been learning C++ for 30 days today, been practicing for 1 hour atleast and I can't believe how far I have gotten, It feels unreal that's going to be a year since I started this .... I just .... I don't know where has time gone? and what have I done? well I failed twice this year to actually finish my classes, I'm falling behind again and thinking of dropping out. Tonight I'm gonna seriously think about this and if it fails then I have no other choice I'm learning about loops and while loops at the moment right now in C++ and a little about how linux works from a book, I think i need to step it up a bit because I am not happy with My mom is mentally ill, there's no diagnose but she is not doing well, she stays in the dark all the time and just sits in silence. I can't do anything about it. My family is full with losers including me. God what a failure , lord have mercy Also I didn't pray for 2 hours atleast, gotta pick that up Crap, I might drop out of college for a job, this is the 3rd time I've failed so if I fail again I might not be able to get money from the government again. I just don't want to go to college. Working seems to be more fitting for me. I'll keep you guys updated in a couple of weeks. Thanks for reading my blog. Tell me guys what you thought

GOAL: learn code, practice art, Read more ROUTINE: I do a pattern were day 1 I do code, 2 art, 3 read and loop back. On weekdays the 3 moments I have between classes is dedicated to what ever I dedicated the day to. For code and art I read a book, watch a lecture and then leetcode/sketch. For the book day I go through my fiction book, then nonfiction and the last hour is free. For the weekend I study parts of the hobby in 1 hour intervals and 10 minute breaks 7:30 am- 6:30 pm. I had to make a super in-depth schedule to concentrate

>>44292 It might be worth trying to seek out someone in your community who can help you out. Many universities have counselors, or you might have a family friend, or potentially a local religious figure all of which should be willing if not eager to help. Getting your mother to a psychiatrist (or even just a doctor), and some external perspective on your future/situation (by someone more familiar with your situation) could be especially useful. Regarding your goals it might be worth adding some health goals, and starting small. Health goals concerning sleep, exercise, diet, and avoiding alcohol can put you in a stronger position to achieve your other goals. Maybe if you struggle to pray or read your bible for two hours a day you should set a goal of a smaller more achievable amount at first. Hope things turn around for you.

hello, lainons, i used to browse multiple boards on 4chan (pol, biz, lit, his, sci) multiple times daily, for my pursuit of knowledge, and i have learned quite a bit from there.

>>44633 currently, i came here recently to learn about tech. my general impression is that your perspectives on the current state of the world is quite mature, but you lack the tools necessary to bring about much change.

>>44634 you guys know that living "normally" is a far from ideal option, but you can not use your "wasted potential" either. the only option really is to shy away from the worsening society, and find consolation here. imo, to live means to have "life" in everything that you do. this state is hard to achieve for the average person, since they are not aware of it. it may take them decades, to come to revelations which you may find plenty of in a single thread. the road is long, and hard, and you might see no end to it, but in my experience i continued, and now i feel incredibly rewarded. its very cliche, but if you are to improve daily, over a year, the improvements add up like compound interest, and you will end up several times better.

>>44635 some beginner activities to embark on are to take jot notes on msm media (cnn, fox news, cnbc, reuters, bloomberg) and notice their patterns/abstract ideas over a few weeks, "kings and generals", "invicta", and "voices of the past" on yt for history, 8hr audiobooks of economics and "history of money and banking in the 1700s", wikipedia/britannica reading for getting an idea on things, "the candlestick trading bible"(pdf available when searched) for an intro to trading, and attempting professional mastery/learning of any activity/hobby/topic.

>>44636 i am sure that if you persevere, your perspective of the world will have much more clarity, hence your actions too. it took me just a month to feel different, but its a hard road. no one is forcing you, and that makes it even harder. stay strong lainons. sry if anything isnt clear or if i said anything wrong. by the end, you should be looking to have developed a mindset which will lead you to accumulating more resources. there is no need to follow it to a tee, but im sure that the roadmap is quite decent. my path was hard man. i pretty much had the whole bingo card filled out in the thread about gifted people. best of luck guys, i found my light on this path.

>>44637 after that, you can try to delve into more "radical" stuff like metaphysics ("mindfulness in plain english" by gunaratana, "concentration a guide to mental mastery" by mouni sadhu, plato, aleister crowley, kierkegaard, guenon, evola), and by searching for links/resources on 4chan infodump threads, else "pawns in the game", and "color revolution manual", are great starter books.

>>44638 sorry, i just realised that one segment of my post was causing the spam issues, and every was fine after. but that is all lads. think of this as a knowledge transfer, i guess. i really do apologize for this, there was absolutely no need to post 7 times.

>>45440 also should add goals: >learn B1 level chinese by this year routine: <take lessons for chinese whenever I have the time, at least bi-weekly

>>43160 I think this is my last post here, as I am moving this exercise to a textfile, great thanks for help guys. And so we go, it is a miracle that I am soon doing those 2 months updates over a year. Managed to get a job which is basically a dream job, and now I am just working out how to make it profitable and doing it against all odds. This for me is the universe telling me I am doing _something_ right. I have decided to drop out out of one of my degrees as it has only brought me suffering and pain. On the other one (CS) I have continued study, and except for one exam I have managed it quite well. As weather is better, going out goes easier and pullup bar does its job which helped a lot. The creative works have taken up greatly, as I have started making drawings and they are (to my surprise quite successful). Nothing new in relationships, but always open to new developments and hopeful I will meet someone really cool this summer and it works out :). I pretty much have dropped browsing imageboards besides some tiny visits just to check if they are still soykaf. My days of using worst boards for self-harm are gone and I am extremely happy with that. With pornography, well, some things are slow to fix but I try to avoid fuarrrked up soykaf, with which E-Hentai surprsingly helps a lot with banning tags and stuff. I have also managed to limit news time greatly and my sleep has been a lot better recently with me waking up before the alarm and actually enjoying life. And the goals list: 1) make the job hueg 2) keep planning time when it is needed 3) pray 4) find a bigger and nicer place to live in with people I care and love Current state: 1) Renting a room 2) Employed, waiting for payment, but also on the dole so savings survive 3) Studying one Master 4) Dealt with depression, but PTSD got more annoying, looking for help currently 5) Working out as I wish 6) Eating as much as I need to 7) Hopeful and happy about the future At last, if anybody has anything to say, I will be grateful. I might make a post if I find someone cool or have any other big change in my life, but I'd prefer to keep this log private. This technique really helped with me with putting progress and events over the recent months into perspective and allowed me to notice what do I actually want in life and understand myself.

>EOF I'll give this a bump.

>>48265 kinda happy you lost the notes... Been lurking this since the beginning of the year and haven't posted yet. Imma do it next week maybe, i have very limited internet access as part of me trying to get soykaf done. Just wanted to let you know that i appreciate all you lains posts. As far as cooking goes, i been having a lot of success with putting seasoned meat on an oven tray, and potatoes and other vegetables on another. then putting the potatoes in the oven for half an hour and after that, the meat and potatoes for another half hour. the worst thing about it cutting is cutting up the potatoes, but listening to music or podcasts while i do it makes it not so bad. It's also pretty versatile, since you can mix up the meat or vegetables, or make rice instead of potatoes, if you get bored. the meal can last you about 2 or 3 days, is cheap and healthy enough i'd say.

>>48440 So here we go... I've been having a pretty good year, my day to day being entirely different to what it has been the previous years. I'm able to keep a diet, workout and read consistently without it taking too much effort, and the results have been quite reaffirming. I also made huge progress with my internet and vidya usage, restricting them to the weekend only, but as apposed to the last times i tried, this time it feels like i am able to keep this on forever, and i have been since about February. I also finally got myself to learn python and shell scripting to the point were it feels that i could actually write something proper, when before i always gave up halfway into some book or course which left me unable to do anything with it. While most of my achievements haven't been impressive by themself, they are strong improvements for me, and this is also the first time i am really feeling good about doing good, as i think i have actually changed my habits or even changed as a person. However I'm still struggling with the things that i actually have to do, that being things work related as well as masturbation. I would have never believed that simply not jerking off would end up being much harder to do than dealing with other addictions i had (Overeating, Videogames, Socialmedia etc.), but it truly has been. I've been trying for years and even though I've been making progress this and last year particularly, it is not very impressive. I was however able to abstain for 60 days around Easter which topped my best streak of the last decade by probably 3x. Since then i didn't do better than a week or two, it did however give me the confidence of theoretically being able to do it for any amount of time, since while i was doing it, it felt natural and easy. I think one of the main issues i been having is that i don't won't to fight urges at all. I want to cum asap not because I'm horny but because i want to stop thinking about sex and get back to what i was doing before. That doesn't work obviously; the more i jerk off the more i want to continue doing so which leads usually to me watching porn in a binge-type-of-way. I want to focus on this for the next month or so since it has been very depressing (as in: cumming makes me sad), which in turn influences my ability in doing anything else. I plan on reading 'EasyPeasy' again with helped me last time and posting a short update every weekend to keep accountable. Based on how I'm doing i will mention new plans, achievements or setbacks. As i said i been lurking for ages and been helped by reading the thread, so i hope i can help by making this thread more active.

>>28166 GOAL: study 30 minutes every day ROUTINE: no movement. I eat lentil soup and try to make time pass faster using drugs; can only afford tobacco consistently. unventilated room. daylight is disorienting. every few months I feel exceptionally good and study for 15 minutes. check if snails are still alive, don't interact otherwise. kind of a noir sketch but things aren't good. maybe they are. I want to be grateful for what I have. I'm not homeless or diseased. I'm not destroying anything fast. I can read and... idk, not very much. health still bad, or something like that. it takes me less time to realize I feel lonely, and turn it to calm and alone now.

Only using a trip so I can be held accountable. Otherwise not a big fan of them. Rules: No soda. No fast food. No TV. No movies.* No nicotine. No alcohol. No drugs. No caffeine. No porn. Daily: Wake up at 9am every day. Basic meditation every night for 15 minutes before bed (starting simple - breathing exercises). 5 pages of any book. 1 mile walk. x push-ups.* Learn something.* Remove one useless internet account (social media, etc) until gone. Write 500 words every day Monday - Friday. General: Interact more with girlfriend.* List and deconstruct insecurities, worries, failures, etc. (I guess this is self-therapy?). I fuarrrked up on soda, fast food and nicotine. I quit smoking though so I guess that's good, just using a vape and when I run out of that, I don't want to get more. Caffeine won't be too hard I don't think, I have an energy drink every couple days (Monster). * I have around two dozen films I don't think I could let go, but they're generally considered HQ so oh well. * Start with something basic like 1 or 2, move up a couple. Goal is to eventually be able to do 20 push ups (correctly) before the year is out. I'll probably be able to do more. * I'm using KhanAcademy for mathematics. I don't know why but it interests me. Also sharpening my typing skills. Considering improving speech. * I'm not too bad at this but I think she'll probably be happier if we go out to do things more. An amusement park, maybe a hike. Travel or something. Possibly more gifts tailored to her.

Goal: finish up my game and continue on other projects I had in mind Routine: Study for 1 to 2 hours every day, advance in math, philosophy and other adjacent areas. Oh and of course a short exercise every morning.

1) learn occitan or polish. 2) study maths at least one hour a day. i have trouble learning languages because i close the pdf viewer right after opening the file. lets see if writing here helps.

>>49924 >polish. Why would you do that? Polish is a terrible language. Nie polecam języka XD t. Pole

>>49924 update: studied maths for 40ish minutes while memorizing part of the plural rules for catalan. yes, catalan. i confused it with occitan. >>49925 i think it is a cool language, and i want to speak a language with grammatical cases.

>>49924 I want to learn Polish mostly so I can participate in erischan

math study is extremely hard at first, even though the math itself isn't that bad. View the attached chart. It takes a lot of self-discipline to get to that transition in the middle, where it becomes easier to study math than to do math, meaning you get good enough study skills that you can identify what you need to focus on to gain understanding. Most people reach it around the start of grad school. My advice is to keep at it and try to read more 'recreational' maths interspersed with 'serious' maths. Not sure what your current skill level is but a lot of students get discouraged by the calculus grind. It's important to grind calculus hard but don't get hung up on it.

>>49357 Didn't update last week since there wasn't much to say as everything went well enough. This week I fuarrrked up, like I said before, it seems like I don't care enough, as apposed to the "addiction" over taking or whatever, which means I can't really complain. Not exactly sure yet how to change that, but the way I think about it, is that I worked for about a decade on building these bad habits, so it not unreasonable for them to take some more time to fix. One very uplifting thing is that I didn't binge, or ended up breaking other promises I made myself, which is in direct contrast to a few months, not to mention weeks ago. Also made some decent progress with my workouts and am starting to understand some of the more esoteric things about shell that were standing in the way of doing the things I wanted to do before, and restarted learning french, so I'm overall in a good mood. I noticed that having to update my post made me think about my doings a little bit more critically, so I'll keep on posting!

>>50030 now i studied 1 hour of maths (something i already know and did some excercises, i hope this counts) but did not studied catalan. i should study both separately.

>>28166 What if all of your goals become unrealistic and you spiral due to paradoxical situations? >want to be healthy enough to stop taking ace inhibitors >go for walks >get plantar fasciitis >the pill they give for it causes diabetes and hypertension >end up so depressed you go from 3k a day to 1k a day and lose 40 lbs in a month >still get plantar fasciitis >hypertension was best at the diet's start but now as bad as 3k a day often >want to learn to do something new >too old and stagnant About paradoxes, one could say just take more pills and live but the real goal here is control over your life and as a neet that will NEVER get a job one would want to be independent of a doctor's hypertension pills and also diabetes pills and whatever else that is headed the neet's way. Otherwise nothing matters anyway as you stay trapped with people you hate forever and never get to hop into the woods. What IS realistic goal? Getting low self esteem and anxiety from filling out a job application that even if you had a work history and thus a resume you'd end up rejected due to competition despite it/them? Eat more than 1k but you sleep anyway and stop losing weight at 1.5k when you cannot walk for a third of the month randomly? A podiatrist tells you to wear shoes that hurt it more on top of it rather than fix the problem. They always do that, treat the symptom rather than the cause, and then the treatment makes you more sick. I feel as though solving a problem is literally impossible whether it be math or a relationship problem or especially a health problem. Healing isn't possible, it's a myth outside of our bodies replicating randomly and sometimes making a tumor as they do whatever they want as the mitochondria slowly shrink, laughing at you as they do as you were nothing but a poem about semen. Life is art, it can have many points, but if the art is bad or in bad taste and you've no talent to fix it then you end up never looked at and in some trashcan somewhere or even burned. But yes, I lost 40lbs and my hypertension pills is halved to ten mg rather than 20, but three years ago when fatter it was 5mg and I wasn't feeling like I was on death's door all day because I was in my 20's still three years ago. Quadrupled I won't stand for so I settle with borderline hypertension while walking around on dash diet like a monk and halved it hoping that once I'm no longer even overweight (now no longer obese for the first time in years) that I will have lower hypertension upon leaving the drama and fat behind. But where to go when sleeping outside is illegal and no woods are around? A realistic goal is to steal a car in my case or risk your life train hopping. So is waking up at the same time every morning and eating at the same time every morning but no matter how I eat I cannot do either of those two simple things, hence I can never work as a realistic goal. No amount of controlled poisons would fix how I function to the degree needed to have a job and live independently on my own so the woods it is, of which utterly is unrealistic as my body is permanently damaged due to years of enabling that society has done to me. Destitute, no weed, no money, you only have ebt and booze so you end up with a damaged cardiovascular system and a damaged foot due to falling off a bus years ago when you should never have had to been on one to begin with. I'm too poor to have a bicycle. Improvement isn't real for people in such a scenario with bad genetics that caused that scenario of which of course they would indeed correlate. Just seeing the word improve makes us spiral more due to the inherent reality of learned helplessness. We learn it for a reason. It's real.

>>50182 tldr brain is dynamic but youre stuck in bad habits so change only will happen with a hard reset by killing everything off for a week and only doing what you which to ingrain which allows re calibration. i would guess the most important idea here is not to leave an outlet you enjoy because that will kill the entire process similar like fasting is destroyed the moment you just eat a bit. Seems believable imo. Ive done it accidentally going on a trip with no internet which got me out of wow addiction back when game was still good. I guess that's applicable to everything - i you get some distance it loses value. In reverse i can say jogging every 2nd day became natural and takes no effort to convince myself anymore after doing it for over a year.

>>50041 This week was very similar but worse than last week. Focusing on only one thing was a bad idea, since I have too much free time in which I get bored, and start to think about how I could sabotage myself. I noticed that I do have the willpower to withstand an urge (regardless in which context) for maybe like 15 minutes. If within that time I found something else to do, I'm fine, else I'll fall back and become depressed thinking how I can't control myself. The answer is both to stay busy (or busyer), and to have a habit of doing a specific thing to distract myself when in danger of goofing off. The first one I'll try to address with a daily schedule and the latter possibly with taking a walk or bike ride (I'll try to think about more convenient alternatives). The schedule contains more focus towards actual work related goals which for too long I have been ignoring, being too content with making "personal progress". I'll print out a reminder for both, so lets see how that will work out.

>>50182 Okay I'll try it, why not? I did do something similar some time ago (people tend to call it dopamine fasting), but for only a day, and it had quite an profound impact on me. It was then when I decided to stop wasting my life with playing videogames (and not even enjoying it) and started only playing them on one day out of the week. That was about a year ago, and looking at the time I spend playing in previous years it was quite the improvement (i failed multiple times before trying to implement the same thing) and it was almost effortless. The main reason I didn't do it since is simply that it takes some commitment to start, very similar to a normal fast, but just like a fast, when it comes to "self-improvement" techniques, it is probably the single best thing to do (maybe the only thing worth doing) and so perfectly simple. I will do it from Monday till Wednesday (since I don't want to change my plans for the weekend) and also fast for at least the last two days, then have what comes close to an "optimal day" on Thursday and Friday, and make a report on the weekend (btw I'm >>50205).

>>50232 Worked out well. I spend most of the time reading (did like 300 pages of Crime and Punishment alone) and sleeping which may not have been optimal. I threw up water on the second day of fasting (not sure why) made it to three days anyway and felt amazing (really just normal). Thursday and Friday when quite well but maybe not "optimal". I will do it again for sure, however in a different way. Either by doing a full week, or just doing a day but without reading and only focusing on what my future plans are (what I did last time). The former is likely better for rebooting your dopamine receptors or whatever, while the latter is better for hyping yourself up to combat procrastination on the following day. This in between that I did may have bin the worst of both worlds, but still overall worthwhile.

>>48265 Another 2 months, another post. God, am I consistent with those. Got the funding, which is good, which means I have absolute freedom to do what I want. Sometimes long wait pays off and it seems with that funding I'll get future employment support. I have managed the exam very well, to the point that I have some belief in my math skills. I don't know how to go about developing my math interests, but if time and energy allow I might delve deeper into topics on my own time. Also, the degree project might decide how do I act with this knowledge. Health is the same and cooking got more bearable. Still, developed some weird eating out alone acceptance which is awful for my finances, and I remember when the pure idea of eating out alone was completely alien to me. Well, sometimes you change for worse. Should maybe do more to lose some weight, but I feel fine how I am and it doesn't seem I am contributing to any issues. I think this mindset will allow for healthier approach in the future. Porn addiction is here to stay for some more time, I guess, I took even a part in online program with CBT elements but it seems only thing it changed is the severity and rate at which I do watch it. Still, it has very little impact on my life as I am somebody who does quick sessions. With creativity, I think I am leaving the creative block I was in and slowly allowing ideas to come in. Still, no serious results, some ideas on idea production are difficult to apply but might start using them. I feel less alone and more alone at the same time, I have couple friends online and offline, but I would not say my current social life is satisfying (not that it ever was, but then it might be that I have high requirements). In regards to social media, had a weird period of Twitter abuse but I think I have managed to deal with it now. Started learning Latin again, this time taking the same brute force approach I took with that exam. I think knowledge of Latin will help me avoid contemporary thinking better. Other than that, I feel pretty well and hopeful about the future, and aware what I should do. Of course, always open to any opinions or feedback. I might try this dopamine clearing thing, but with how work and university is it might be a bit more difficult. Nonetheless. Goals: 1) Manage the degree 2) Have the funding, now it is a matter of using the opportunity to create something which will produce stable income. 3) Continue the fight against entropy 4) pray 5) con Current state: 1) Renting a room 2) Have the funding for the job 3) On the degree 4) Ok with diet, will allow better solutions to come up if energy/mental state allows. 5) Continuing my own business 6) Still hopeful about the future

>>50623 God, how is this thread still surviving? Past 2 months must have been the worst for my mental health in a long time, I feel like I just fell out of meaning and sense, which then turned onto suicidal thoughts and so on. On Zoloft and in counseling now, also just wanted to experience antidepressants so I get a perspective onto others and be able to comprehend the reality better. Besides, I have learned some Latin and pushing that slowly, although Zoloft truly does not force me the same way as serotonin-dopamine cycles did. Regarding eating I think things are getting better, and my weight is finally going down, which is kind of interesting, given that I am on antidepressants. But then, I overeat when depressed so... whatever. Creative block is still there, but managing to put in some chaos through, well whatever. With social life, things are not painful whilst on SSRIs, but I know it was probably the central cause of my issues, and it is not really addressable with Omicron and other bs which basically stops everything in a huge city full of normal people. I unironically think that for now, SSRIs allow me to push through the problems and difficulties as I barely feel any suffering, and as my living situation is fully normal and even pretty good, given that I have a 'dream job' and pretty much full reign over my personal time. Not good that most of that time goes to playing HOMM3, but well, it is better than suffering. Goals: 1) Continue managing the degree, do the project 2) Continue developing the biz 3) Fight with entropy as you always do 4) Read more classical works Current state: Same as previous, except on antidepressants.

I come from greener pastures and I wanted to join this ride. Quite sad to see there's only been a single post in 2 months. Don't tell me you all gave up.

>>54057 Not me! However, I did not post in here about it. I usually post in /SIG/ and /NSG/ on 4ch to help inspire. Good luck!

>>28178 Oh wait, I did post in here! I have made some minor changes. I stopped making protein shakes and eating curry every day due to price increases and a need to save money. I have really upped the "read violent extremist literature", I have about 300+ books in my "far right" collection. I don't really bother with meditation.

>>54057 OP here. I didn't give up! Circumstances in my life have made it so that I had to modify the routine, but I do exercise and study almost every day, and today I got up at 9 AM. I also quit pornography and I'm working on lowering the amount of time I waste on the internet.

>>54101 That's cute. I used paper. Then I ran out of paper and stopped.

Do you guys have any reccomendations for people who work full-time (in non-dream job/field of study situations)? Everytime I try to set a routine the time gets eaten up by meeting basic needs, or by exhaustion. Life Goals: -Get therapist -At least four months sober -Driver's License (have a permit now) -Clean a little every day -At least two real meals a day (convenience store snacks are not meals) -Basic Hygeine every day (A shower, and reasonably clean clothes) Fun/Stretch Goals: -A duolingo Japanese and Spanish lesson a day -One interactive SICP excerise a day -Self-study math, starting with the engie calculus I left off at -New Apartment

>>54105 I think these are very realistic goals and I'm inspired by them, lainon. Don't need hygiene goals because my tropical country obligates me to take at least 2 showers a day. A recommendation is to set a time to study or read (think it lacks a little bit of humanities readings in your schedule, like fiction, history or psychology, it is good to keep your mind balanced) and take a good renewing shower before it.

I joined a self study group in discord made with this "accountability" stuff in mind. Yeah, as if I am going to feel accountable to a bunch of strangers on the internet. But as soon as I'd say (often impulsively) "I will learn X!" Or set some goal like writing so-many-words, almost immediately I lost interest. Go figure. It's going well, though. I am still in the group, and I talk about my progress there. For the past, idk, a year or so, I've been working on making more efficient the way I learn, addressing my weaknesses and strengths. Everybody learns a bit different, and what works for most people doesn't seem to work for me, eg. flashcards. I don't use Ankee nor do I feel any need to. I remember a lot of threads here saying "programming is the only thing I've ever been good at!" And thus center their whole identity around programming even though it doesn't fulfill them anymore, they have no real use for it, and they're not even good at it to begin with. I used to feel that way. Or rather, I would insist that I needed to program because I perceived a potential payoff from learning it, if only I could overcome some mental hurdles that were ultimately keeping me from actually making any progress. I've learned a lot since then, from various different topics. I pretty much droppe programming entirely from my life (with the one exception of SICP). I could give advice but idk where to start. I know a lot of people would want to escape this imageboard-browsing cycle, but I also know that so many are entrenched in their ways that they really don't want to change anything in the end. Those who really want to eventually will, and whatever advice I give will probably not be helpful. I got a lot of advice back then but most of it was commonplace soykaf that I already knew. Maybe keep trying new stuff, don't set yourself on a single path and think you're just going to move forward. Unlearn so many of the conventional wisdom surrounding knowledge. Stuff like "read the book cover to cover and do all the excercises", for example, is a bad way to keep yourself motivated, and it's fixed in a "standard" way of doing things which may work well for university students, but it's not actually the way to gain knowledge. Knowledge comes from experience and years of sustained interest and practice. Don't be afraid to explore other topics but always come back to what's most practical, convenient, relevant, useful for you. May your resolution be firm and your steps be bold.

>>28212 Then simply get some.

I could list many things but the most important are - Improve the way I interact with people - Try to find a meaningful connection with someone - Find something I'm passionate about, a new hobby I enjoy. I want to give Dungeon Synth a shot. I've always been more of a rational/logic person and I'd like to do something beautiful just for the sake of it for once

>>54916 This diet plan seems too convoluted to actually work. After I actually had experience with counting calories, I've been able to loose weight, and keep it off, for years now, with my waist size being at a steady 31 (this is the size of my actual skeleton, not fat). I aim for 1600~ calories daily, and after I read nutrition labels, I just keep what I've eaten that day in the back of my mind. This has proven to be a good daily intake for my metabolism if I want to stay nice and trim. This fasting soykaf, and one meal a day, doesn't work. Learn how to actually feed yourself properly, and learn how to just accept a 1600~ calorie daily intake for the rest of your life (or whatever your metabolism requires you to eat). Once you actually learn how to feed yourself, it's shocking to read the nutritional information for food at a place like McDonalds, with a single meal sometimes surpassing a whole day's worth of calories. Also, don't keep track of things like sodium, or carbs either, just try to keep pure sugar low because it makes you very hungry, and saps you of your energy. Also try to eat as much fiber as you can.

>>54920 >>54922 I agree with both of you. At the end of the day, fasting is just another way of reducing calorie intake, which is the only way of losing weight. My goal of "one meal a day" is a method to keep me from overeating, since calorie tracking, even though necessary, can become very annoying after a while. Still, I agree with your post and will keep it mind. Thanks!

The point of using an app or writing this stuff on paper is that its annoying. Its a pain, it makes you suffer each time you eat, thereby reducing the pleasure of eating, thereby restricting food consumption.

>>54938 >suffer each time you eat Most people, ~90%, just cut the app out completely once it gets to that point, honestly.

>>28176 >Duolingo It's the worst way to learn a new language, I've did Spanish on Duolingo for 2 months and it was for nothing. The recommended way is to get a book, and start working on study plan i.e 30 minutes of talking exercise, some vocab and grammar exercises, and so on. And remember anon learning things needs time and patience and most importantly consistency, so don't give up.

>>54985 Duolingo's method is good it's just some people behind some languages on it just aren't putting the most common and needed words early enough and in some cases throwing in words that arent used very often. Like I've used Duolingo and was able to form sentences I made up myself in multiple languages but didnt know enough to speak to an actual speaker in casual conversation causing me to constantly backtrack.

>>54988 i was trying to learn swedish in it and it's like... you spend hours learning obscure animal names and such before you even know how to tell the time or ask what someone's name is. duolingo seems suitable for a supporting role learning resource at best.

Lainons, I have tried to crawl out many times, but I fall all the way down when I reach an obstacle. The fact that I’m stuck in a circle drives me nuts and makes me feel hopeless. Today I make an agreement with myself. Today is the day to begin changing things. Immediate change does not work, monkey brain was not made to understand volatile events and drastic changes, so I must do things in my own pace, not a lazy one, but the fastest one that I can keep up with. I have a tech addiction and that is the elephant in the room. Gone are the days when you could visit a library to study. I have to go through selection procedures to join the military or university (no money for tuition fees + government can provide quality education) and most of the subjects that I have to study are available for free on the internet. My biggest struggle will be to use technology without getting distracted by it. My plan is to check emails/messages/browse for 2 hours a day at most and only during a certain period of the day. I still don’t know if I should do it during the morning or at the end of the day. I will not play games btw. This will be a hell of a journey, but one that can be successful. Goal: >Apply for military and Uni >Get a B2 or C1 Advanced certificate >Maintain a consistent routine of studies >Learn something computer related (anything that can get me a job just in case I need that paycheck) >Go back to gym (cuz military exams) >Record/Write a weekly monologue concerning my progress >Drink water daily >Overcome technology addiction >Follow orthodox fast >Water my plants Desired Routine: >Wake up at 6PM because classes begin soon >Study at home 2+ hours per day >Go to gym after lunch >Dinner, Shower, brush teeth before 8PM and lay in bed at 9PM Current Routine: >Wake up inconsistently: sometimes 8AM, sometimes 12PM >Eating well, but I eat snacks outside of the appropriate periods >No exercise at all >Going to bed at 2AM >Not praying at all Sorry if post was too long. Be gentle.

>>28166 goals: get fit. I was shocked to find that i have a bmi of over 28 recently, i'm 6'2" so it isnt very noticeable but its very unhealthy and i need my pre covid bod do burpees and running daily, eat right NO junk, NO dining outside pass PhD entrance test, study min 3 max 6 hours a day Talk to my grandfather daily my life otheerwise is pretty decent, i have set routines for everything wake up at 5, sleep at 9:30, no substance addiction, no social media etc.

>>55044 Does your military have jobs for people with autism and tech addictions? You could probably use that to your advantage and become some kind of communications technician or a cyber user

>>55044 found this thread and you only now, lainon. all the best for you, i'm more or less in the same situation as you, trying to do better but caveman brain does not really allow me to do much about it. to be honest i've kinda given up for now until i get back home (away from home for a year, 3 months in) but i'm making plans on doing something worthwhile. gardening. workshop manufacturing. prototyping different food production methods (codys lab gave me the idea, odin bless that man) tl;dr; i wish you the best lainon, see you on the other side

I think this thread could be more helpful with a string of accountability. It is easy to make an anonymous post, stating how you will change and what you're aiming for... yet you can just ghost this thread afterward. If you want to change, it would be smarter to set up an accountability group. To surround yourself with people who also are changing. I would imagine some sort of board/irc channel >Daily statement of one thing you did >Daily statement of what you may do tomorrow for whatever project/goal you're working on >Weekly summaries of what you learned with everyone in the group, take questions and etc

>>54916 OK, time for an update. I've been doing some 48hs fasts (I know, I know) and tried to eat reasonably. No real exercise besides walking around my neighborhood every other day. Stats: SW: 95.5kg CW: 92.4kg GW: 75kg So, overall, I lost about 3kg. The difference is not noticeable in the pictures so I won't bother posting new ones yet. Maybe next week. Fasting is pretty easy to me, but I do miss eating if that makes sense. I'm also abusing coffee more than usual to make up for the boredom or low energy levels. I may switch to something like ADF or IF soon. I'll see how it goes. Still a long long way ahead...

>>55237 >48 hr I know, I know Maybe you know but I don't. Is that a lot or a little ? An acquaintance of mine lost a lot of weight doing 72 hour fasts (he'd take distilled alcohol and picke juice but nothing else). I certainly know people who fast for more than 48 semi regularly while maintaining stable/healthy weight. But sounds like you're making progress so good for you !

>>55243 >Maybe you know but I don't. Is that a lot or a little ? I said that because fasting is often looked upon as being unsustainable and a crash diet. It works but I probably should be focusing on exercise and portion control. It's just that I'm so fat that I just want to get it over with as quickly as possible. Cheers!

>>55243 If you fap you can suppress hunger by flooding your body with hormones. People can loose a lot of weight by doing only fap and drinking a glass of water when they get hungry. Probably not sustainable, but probably also better than a cocaine or heroin addiction.

>>55044 Reporting in. One week and a few days later and I have a few results. Still waking up late. I noticed that my skills are a bit rusty, so I will record a podcast talking about things of my interest and include my monologue, all in english so I can practice without talking to someone else. I may even interview some friends if talking to myself ends up being too lonely. I was able to study maths during some days of the week. Other days I just NEETed all day long. Math sets are fun (are you able to answer the question in the image?). It has been raining a lot (tropical storms in a nutshell) so I don't have to water my plants frequently. My nofap routine is working ok. Some degen sent me a bunch of hentai. I fell in temptation, but still no fap. It didn't take long for me to regret falling and proceeding to pray, asking God to help me fight temptation and free me from my sins. I didn't go to Gym yet, my fault. I'm still far from my desired routine, but this is better than before. Q&A: >>55050 They do have jobs in the communication sector, mainly in Air traffic control. The Air Force has an university which offers degrees in Computer Science, so that may be an option if I decide to engage in that career. >>55173 Don't give up on the small projects. Learning the things you mentioned may help you throughout this year away from home. Wish you the best too. I'll pray for you and everyone else in this thread.

>>54916 >>55237 Time for an update again. Still following the same 48hs fasts schedule, a bit more relaxed now since I have a social life and it gets hard to follow strictly. Stats: SW: 95.5kg CW: 92.1kg GW: 75kg So, almost the same as last week. A bit dissapointed honestly, but I think it's normal. Lowest weight so far has been 90.7kg so yeah. Another reason for not losing weight besides some binging on the weekend might be the fact that I'm lifting again on my refeeds. Not sure if it makes that much of a difference but that is that. I just wish there was an easier and faster way to lose all this fat.

comfy thread, OP my goals -wake up earlier -keep doing cardio daily -ease into strength training daily -eat two large meals a day (exercise should hopefully make this easier) -find some good literature to read, I don’t like the fact that most of my knowledge I obtained from random people scattered throughout the internet

>>53912 Wow, more late than ever. But for good reasons - basically everything has gotten waaaaay better. With food, antidepressants played their game but I am off. Life-wise, things are crazy better, finally have a social life, reconnected with that girl, we somehow managed to get past their own mistakes and will be visiting her in a week (and she has seen this thread so that's about that anxiety). With Latin, I just don't have space currently, might learn some language (most probably Russian) during a project. With work, I currently am in the middle of 3 jobs, although in 2 of them I am yet to make progress. I dropped out of SSRIs, and jumped right into nootropics and chinese herbal remedies forces. Creative block, well, I think it is done, just my creativity is going into biz-dev, and as I take the financial aspect as secondary, then it is primarily a creative action of making somethings as real as possible. I have a lot of ideas, and well, even David Lynch is aware, that even a great idea like a great fish can be fuarrrked up by a 'bad chef'. So yeah, I don't suffer anymore. I am getting into Olympic Weightlifting, which turns out I fuarrrking love, despite being a complete beginner at it (although even a 30kg snatch is pleasurable). Also for cardio, I cycle and swim pretty much daily (not today due to fuarrrking Eunice, though will go for storm watching later). I also have managed to finally get over my travel/flying anxiety, and I finally have the mental ability to meet my online friends IRL and I gotta say, if you have money to do so, DO IT! You will see that there are other people like you outside of posts, chatrooms, etc. It is a crazy experience to know that, especially when you feel like a complete outsider and stranger to the society. For people who have been critical of this thread, well for me it was a way to track my life in a very interesting manner, and I will continue writing those posts, and backing up this thread as I don't know how long this website will survive. Still, if somebody does not want to help themselves, they will not no matter their action. But it matters to keep on trying. Never give up, the results will come. Consider your health (physical as the initial and central goal as then everything else will follow). I really recommend getting any active health support (as in mentoring/therapy/etc) and being open if you do not enjoy aspects of it. It has helped me a lot. Goals: 1) make the biz fuarrrking hueg 2) this funding ends in march, will need to work out another source of money 3) move into a nicer place as that is now possible 4) DEFEAT ENTROPY 5) study more phil in the small hours 6) continue working out and taking care of your health 7) fuarrrking snatch 50 kg by the end of the year Current state: 1) biz fuarrrking exists 2) working out daily basically 3) degree goin okay 4) mostly skipping breakfasts and focusing on proteins which seems to work well 5) very hopeful about the future 6) off the SSRIs baby I am always open to opinions, feedback, anything, I am always a beginner, always learning.

>>56382 eh, file did not work

Just like OP said, it's best not to give into the defeatist mentality - failure is a thing you will face in life. Keep going because your chances are higher when you never give up, improve, and keep going versus when you just throw in the towel. Learn to not be arrogant, and be humble. I think arrogance can be a leading factor in determing when somebody gives up, because when your so full of hubris and something that's hard to handle comes your way, your life view shatters, your self-esteem dimishes, and you are more likely to just give up. I know that was my problem, and I still somewhat happened. My arrogance caused me to fail a class of mine in Uni, which caused me to spiral into a depression and want to give up. But I bit my tongue and retook the class, improving my habits, and ended up with an A in it the second time. So while it's hard, failure or setbacks can help you in the long run improve your behavoir and mend you as a person. So don't ever give up. Keep persisting. Now, I'll start off with a goal and routine: Goal: Consistent sleep schedule (every day, even on the weekends) Routine: Bedtime between 10:00 to 10:30, every single day. No ifs not buts.

>>28166 Current State: >1st year college student inna 3rd world country >has full time job aswell >struggling with time schedule but still surviving >a poor user who supports his family >gets easily bored Current routines: >doing stretches and exercise everyday to achieve flexibility and higher kicks >learning intermediate guitar >cycling to wind up everyday >sleeps at 2 am, wakes up at 7:30 am to attend college classes Goal and desired routine: >11pm sleep >limit social media use >keep doing stetches even without motivation >keep playing guitar even without motivation >study the Bible everyday >give lesser care to the people that doesn't care about me

Excellent thread op My goals: - Start losing weight - Start sleeping early and waking up early - Start working out My routine: I put a calorie deficit for the last 3 days, i can't go to the gym for financial reasons so i just work out at home with what i got, as for sleeping early yeah.... i am writing this at 4 am in my time so yeah i haven't starting doing soykaf with this.

DAY 567 I ... I'm ashamed ... I gaved up and forgot about this, wtf was I doing with my time or myself, I am frustrated with myself, I don't know what to do ... no I do but I keep messing up

My goals for the weekend: >Clean your depression cave (apartment) >Work for 4 hours on Saturday so you have a shorter week next week >Study for your programming languages exam >Don't eat out Next week: >Wake up and work on a consistent schedule >Go to class, go to exam >Try to read a few minutes every day >Minimize distractions at work, next week is important >Do the homework your therapist gave you >Take your meds I am a full-time tech worker and part-time grad student so most of my life is work and school.

>>56382 Bravo me, even later, how about that. Well, a lot changed, as I started wealking a dog of one of the people in the estate and now I have moved in with them due to a variety of different factors. fuarrrked up my finances with chinese herbal remedies, expensive hobby that is. With biz a lot of things went different, and with travel things went to soykaf due to the war. I suffer again, but that is due to a loss of meaning and understanding. Things are never direct. I don't really know what more to say so. Goals: 1) continue working on the biz 2) the funding managed to continue, although more is required of me now 3) DEFEAT ENTROPY 4) take better care of your heath Current state: 1) biz continues to exist 2) walking the dog daily 3) degree goes well 4) as I live with someone, my diet became much more organised 5) kinda hopeful about the future 6) SSRIs were a joke Always open to feedback, as always.

>>56397 Your goals are soykaf and too abstract. You will probably fail... make your goals tangible >what weight are you trying to achieve >how many hours of sleep do you want/need >define a fitness goal quantitatively (running speed\endurance, weight lifted, muscle size) This also allows you to track progress instead of just assuming you are making progress

>>58319 Not setting a fixed goal can help going because you cant obsess over finish line. So it depends on mentality. And you obviously dont need to set a goal to track progress. You can track whether you make improvements regardless.

GOAL: pursue myself, gain knowledge and wisdom of the before times and live in the grasslands rather than the metal frames. ROUTINE: get up at a reasonable time for work, read 2 pages to a chapter every day, if phone suddenly appears use that fuarrrking driving theory app. i feel determined lainons, lets do this soykafe

I was going to start a thread like this. Good idea, lainon. >Goal 1 (continuous, quality-of-life): Quitting junk food. Eating whole foods instead. Organic if I can. >Current state: believing my own bullshit excuses and relapsing every day - I've been like that for one or two years. I don't know why I don't have scurvy or something like that yet. >Goal 2(specific, top-of-the-list tasks): Cleaning up my "depression cave", as lainon called it above. >Current state: Cluttered with books that I can scan (i.e. photograph them with my phone) and give away. Need to put random junk in labelled boxes. Throw away what's garbage. I have ONE shelf: tidy it up. After all of that, mop the floor like I'm Dolores from Family Guy. I'd be really happy with myself if I could do those 5 things by tomorrow. For anyone struggling with sleep patterns, I fixed mine with a herbal tea. It was a strong-ish tea that I brewed by mixing four relaxing herbs that help with sleep: passionflower, valerian root, chamomile and one more I don't remember. Drank two cups. I wanted to go to sleep around 10 or 11 PM but wasn't sleepy or tired at all because I was used to going to bed around 6AM, but drank the tea and went to bed, fell asleep quite fast and woke up around 6AM refreshed and with no grogginess at all. That's all it took, my sleep regulated itself from then.

>>28166 Goal: Set large goals for next 5 years, have general life objectives by next wednesday Routine: Talking to myself with note taking for one hour each day. Write on relevent docx for atleast one hour per day. Time gaming, browsing, porn, videos at less than one hour per day. Read at least 1 page of relevant research per day Good luck to you all. Once I'm restricting my posting time less and am making progress on my goals I will read your posts and try to help out. I've heard telling others your goals is actually bad because you get the hit of feeling you've worked towards them without actually doing anything but you prompted me to make a plan and go to sleep so good on you for that.

>>58314 fuarrrking hell, that was one of the lowest periods in my life. The person from the estate turned to be abusive towards me, and I ended up being kicked out (or more choosing to leave promptly for my own wellbeing and safety) so I am returning to my home country and set up my life once again. I have went well with my exams, and with the job they are open to different ways of cooperaiton, and I will get another job. The social side of things is pretty good, getting someone close to me really helps. But yes, this entire period has been pure pain and having to leave in transitional state is just nerve-racking. Goals: 1) write my masters thesis 2) get a new job, and develop your life once again 3) when time allows, set up fitness goals and work on them 4) live Current state: 1) out of job 2) working out basically non-existent due to stress 3) lmao diet i just ate a tub of ben & jerrys and called that a meal 4) hopeful about the future, things can only get better than this 5) feeling stronger due to surviving a difficult situation 6) maybe should get medication Always thankful for feedback, kind words, anything really.

I'm the anon that was attempting to lose weight. I'm way worse now, I'm up 10kg or so. Dealing with a lot of anxiety and stress related to my relationship and work. I don't feel happy at all with anything right now, been like this for months. I see no end to it any time soon. >>60993 I don't have any good advice to tell you man, just hope everything turns out fine in the end. Good luck to you brother.

>>60994 Thanks for your kind words man, and don't give up, just because you stumbled does not mean you are not able to get out of your situation. Things will be better.

>>59289 I've made a couple projects I want to get done in the next few years. I have a vague path to do them. I have continued to retreat into escapism. Two books come to mind. The diary of a prisoner where he found that people really just live for an extra food ration the next day, and a science fiction novel where the author felt a civilization was strong because of their sense of a happy fate. I was successful when I was young, in part because I believed things would get better from my work. Life will seem worth living if I expect pleasure, and focusing on tasks with quick payoffs. I have too many big tasks with no respite in sight. Break them up and add pleasure at the end. >>60994 >>60993 Sending hugs. When I was young and overweight I believed that the food industry was my ENEMY and got a power trip DESTROYING and REJECTING unhealthy foods, it worked, but I also had a lifestyle to support this confidence and self-righteousness. If food is a coping mechanism you probably need a new one, and god knows I haven’t replaced my unhealthy coping mechanisms with anything better. I really wish you the best though!

>>28284 Do you use Alarm? I recommend you trying to wake up naturally without alarm.

>>62767 indeed I do. If I don't set an alarm I am late for work (I have a job now), it is not an option to stop using it on weekdays. Generally I wake up before the alarm but I try to go back to sleep because I want more sleep. The only thing that reliably works is melatonin, but I don't use it every night because I don't want to get dependent on it, and also I often don't think to pop a pill until midnight, which is far to late to be eating melatonin. Update on goals: - I now ride my bike to work every day, it feels great. For a long time I did a short exercise routine after work too, but I haven't done that in months. I'm noticeably weaker. - I study pretty much every day for at least an hour, although lately I find it's hard to 'get in the zone'. I think I need to start drinking more green tea rather than coffee. - I still get up late most days. This is still the biggest thing I need to change. Maybe I ought to start checking in more regularly. I'm glad so many people in this thread have been able to set goals and make progress on them :)

>>62772 *stay up late bodytooshortbodytooshortbodytooshort

>>62772 What helped me get my sleep schedule on point is 1. Exercising 2hrs of lifting session 2. Not sleeping at all in the morning or afternoon 3. Not using alarms.

>>62261 2 months passed, and what months have they been. I am back in the UK and relationship lasts, sadly distance does put a strain of things but it is better than I expected which is great. I plan to visit again in December, will see how will that be managed. I've written the thesis and I should get the result very soon, hoping for the best although very low chances of it going wrong as my advisor was quite optimistic and did not suggest any changes besides section reordering. Eating better, I recommend everyone to try potassium supplementation, it really limited the extent of my cravings and made them much more reasonable. Still, I hope to work out more and generally be in better state, so. Also, as I have started running my own private wiki the personal research side of things got a lot better, and I see as I learn. Right now I am starting my foray into chemistry as it is something that wasn't my main interest in school (matter of fact, I was terrible at it), but now I am fascinated by it due to its omnipresence in nature, and also pharmacological side of things. Goals: 1) continue be efficient at work 2) find ways to visit home country more often 3) continue continuous research and self-study 4) work out more often 5) make cool organised projects as that is BY FAR the best way to learn about the world Current state: 1) employed at very comfortable position where I learn a lot of new interesting things 2) joined a local hackerspace so I can also use this space to do material experiments and check my skills 3) eating better due to potassium supplementation 4) staying well I wish everyone to live as excellently as possible, I believe that everything that is bad and wrong will pass so just be patient to yourselves and to others. Distance yourself if needed.

>>34811 >I wake up, but I slack around on my phone reading the news too much). One of the worst things you can do to yourself is starting the day by reading about things you have no control over. Might want to move your phone somewhere else before you go to bed, or add time limits to your device so you cant waste your peak energy on other peoples problems

>>64557 I successfully completed No Nut November and found that I was less productive than when I masturbate once a day.

I'm just gonna post things I wanna do within these 3 days. GOAL: > Finish my exam prep. > Start the posture correction exercises. > Make sure to take my meds properly.

>>64557 >>64770 IMO, most no-fappers make a big mistake conflating fapping with porn consumption. Porn, especially internet porn, is clearly a major psychological security threat. We don't even need empirical explanations or evidence to know this intuitively. Fapping, on the other hand, can be a perfectly natural and healthy activity. I think rather than going full cold-turkey no-fap, many people might benefit more from simply quitting porn and continuing to fap using their imagination and enjoyment of their own physical being. The benefits could include: >easier than cold turkey >exercises your imagination and fantasies >become more aware of your own body >pleasure and release

>>65861 This is accurate, but excessive masturbation levels can still be very destructive

okay here are my goals for this year. keep my no fap streak, currently a month and about 7ish days lose 10kg and start working out a little get a healthy sleeping sched delete most socials

To refrain from derailling the thread just to reply to both anons I'll update on my failure to continue my no fap journey after day 16. This week I'm focusing on meditating 20 minutes each day and getting back on track with a healthier schedule. And doing something really hard that I've been putting off because it's emotionally taxing. I'm making progress, however more needs to be done. Adding the personal goal of deleting useless accounts I still have active. >>65943 Nice record! >>64770 It's positive to know how you are most efficient, if it makes you more functional and you don't consider it a downside maybe you should keep being that way. >>65861 >Fapping, on the other hand, can be a perfectly natural and healthy activity. I'm skeptic about how natural and healthy it can be when you're "cheating" your brain into thinking your hand is a sexual organ to obtain "free" pleasure without the need of involving someone else to achieve it. Regardless, I try to adhere to no fap in top of no porn because if I start masturbating without pornography use very quickly I start sliding into watching porn again. I do judge masturbation without pornography healthier. Though I value meaningful sex in a higher regard than masturbating alone. >We don't even need empirical explanations or evidence to know this intuitively. What do you mean? I'm not following. There's a lot of people that disregard that pornography can be damaging to mental health or even consider it a sort of weakness. I don't think it's obvious for the average Joe and it doesn't seem to be taught or thought of in that way in education programs (at least where I'm from).

>meet girl online >been chatting back forth these past few days Where and how do I go from here? I'm thinking of just asking her, if she has some romantic interest and then ask if she wants to chat on the phone a bit in the evening or coming few days. My guts are telling me that there's no proper right or wrong way to go about this and to just do it.

>>63891 Life's going well. The December visit was extremely nice. I managed to get the best grade on Master's and generally nothing to complain about. Work is mostly calm so I can do whatever most of the time. Miss my GF, but we try to visit each other at least once every two months. Sadly with eating the Christmas season was quite bad, and I have fell out of potassium supplementation habit, need to get back to it. Personal wiki has been more and more useful and now I am reading more and more. Not much more to say, as most things are going fine and I can get more and more things in control. I just hope to develop a nice daily routine and make my life as fulfilling as I possibly can. Goals: same as last time Current state: pretty much also the same I am so happy that I have enough stability to write a shorter note and consider things more slowly. Will see how things will develop but right now most of the things work very well. >>65959 just ask how she feels and what she is open to, do not rush it, also consider how do you feel about her

Hey. I'm new to this so but I'll give it a go. GOAL >improve my health by a few increments ROUTINE > exercise alternating between high intensity circuit training and low intensity yoga and cardio >intermittent fasting starting at 7pm and breaking at 11am I'll check back in next Wednesday and try to participate in conversation

>>65974 I've found similar feelings in my life. Growing up it felt like I was inadvertently taught that NOT doing something at all was better than trying and failing. I also get a similar feeling of shame when I try to do something new. It makes it almost impossible to accomplish new habits for long. I don't have a solution to offer at the moment, but know that you aren't totally alone. There's at least one other person that had similar feelings. Let's keep trying things and maybe we can help each other eventually

>>65974 >>65975 any upstart will fail repeatedly til he gets one success. Teaching the public they can never fail was the best thing they did to get rid of competition. Cant win if you never try.

>>65974 >>65975 I have similar problems, although I think there is also something else besides fear of failure. A lot of the time I feel like I simply don't deserve respect, or a career, or a good life. I feel below my peers, even though I know that I am considered very talented and likeable. Weirdly I think I actually have a good response to failure, though. I have some dreams that I can't give up on, because if I did I would fall apart. My new year's resolution was to stop watching porn altogether, jerk off less, and floss every night. I already failed on the first night but I'm just gonna try again.

>>65969 Reporting in. I was able to stick with the exercise! Didn't miss a day. Cranking up the activity made it harder to stick with the fasting plan, though. I failed that several times by eating early. I'm going to keep my GOAL >improve my health by a few increments But update my ROUTINE >stick to exercise (high intensity, low intensity alternating) >create times to allow eating and don't snack outside of those times I'm thinking about having a breakfast, lunch, dinner, and supper period. Snacking between meals or having rich deserts have been a weakness for a while. I'll try to stymie that this week.

I'm gonna to start with something basic but very necessary, no YouTube or twitch for 1 week

I can do with waking up early, but I start wasting time on my phone immediately after waking up, which then results in me getting out of bed late. Not sure if this is a winter thing but it's been getting worse lately.

Goals: 1. Wake up at 6am everyday (currently wake up at 6:30 on workdays). Use extra time to get something to eat. 2. Learn more about amateur radio 3. Drink more water, limit or remove soda/energy drinks from my diet 4. Go for daily walks. Starting goal of around 30mins weather permitting. 5. Read a little bit everyday for leisure and education 6. Try to meet new people

short term goals: practice programming with what I learned, study daily for my entrance exams long term goals: get in to the uni I want, get a coding job to pay for the life costs of going to uni in a different state(no need to pay because uni is free here). routine: wake up 6:30am, shower and drink coffee, study and make lunch, bed at around 10:00pm(cant control it well so it fluctuates a lot) question for you guys, should I rest on weekends and holidays? every time I start again on monday morning I feel so unwilling to do anything also what to do in days my brain feels like scrambled eggs? I feel like I can't learn anything on those days.

>>67084 >also what to do in days my brain feels like scrambled eggs? I feel like I can't learn anything on those days. That's why you rest on weekends. And on those days (such as monday) that you don't have any initiative, just do something that doesn't require thinking, like solving the repetitive exercises or writing boilerplate you need, all those things that your mind doesn't care to do when you're eager to learn. You need to develop the habit of doing them and that's a good time to train yourself to do them.

>>67084 Caused by electromagnetic fields, childhood vaccinations, and gut damage from food and environmental toxins. People didn't used to have to deal with that.

>>65861 I swear fapping with imagination really helps cause the nut release is so fuarrrking awesome.

1. Get a high paying job. 2. Move on from the girl whose friend zone you were in. I have joined a coding bootcamp and my goal is to get a high paying IT Job. Have been studying all night and sleeping all day. Gotta say it is working , I have improved myself quite a bit. I have never worked this hard for something my entire life.

>>67084 >also what to do in days my brain feels like scrambled eggs? I feel like I can't learn anything on those days. As >>67093 identifies, this is probably something you can fix. Call me insane, but I suggest that you try a ketogenic or carnivorous diet, also quit coffee.

For years I've been in a mental prison, I try to be productive and do things, it lasts few days maybe weeks, then I completely lose track of time for literally months I'm now trying again, studying, going out and taking care of myself in general, it's just too bad that I'm completely alone and it literally cripples me I hope I can remember to put in effort every day, I'm making notes (physically putting them on my desk so I can see them because I used to write them on my pc and never actually checked them) Did anyone have similar experiences? How did you manage to break out of the loop?

Goals: >Learn HTML to build up personal website >Practice DaVinci Resolve until I find a comfortable workflow >Commit to Couch to 5k routine and get off my ass >Maintain personal journal Routine: Wake up at 6 for work and get through hygiene routine. After finishing work I give myself 2 hours of free-time before working on my personal goals. Alternating daily between 5k/computer software. After finishing up I write down my thoughts in my personal journal. My thoughts do not have to be relevant to the work I put in that day. It can be about anything on my mind, as long as I put in the time to think about what I'm writing. Will update w/ my progress Saturday

I'm a 25 year old living at home...not a neet. he goals are simple. 3 month time period Nofap. Increase physical strength. Gain 10 *good* lbs not just fat Simple enough.

>>67628 forgot my current state current state: porn binge just finished, waking up at 9pm, about as weak as i've been in years, lonely for sure

>>67560 Update Post!: I kept generally consistent with my goals. >Couch to 5k Every day I had set for exercise I followed through on. My first 3 minute jog winded me as I generally don't exercise, but I came out fine. Honestly it was kind of a rush. >Learn HTML/Davinci Yesterday I skipped HTML because I felt like soykaf. Outside of that I've kept every other day I have set aside, and if I can pick myself up I still have time today. Haven't messed with DaVinci so much. >Journal Main reason I started my journal is I have a lot of repetitive thoughts I wanted to articulate rather, than have it just be the same old on repeat. I articulated most of my negative thoughts so going forward maybe that could mean I'm going to have more positive/mundane introspection going forward. Get that bad energy out my system, ya know? No new goals, no new routines. Status: Eating Mediterranean in a peaceful home. Nearly 7:00 so there's that nighttime quietness. Thinking about the next steps after I finish my 5k routine. Life is cozy.

>>67493 This time a shorter note as not too much to update, just feeling a more clear headed through making my notes more advanced. Things are slowly getting better, not much to report on here.

I didnt want to create a new thread for this but can other anons post their tips that they found for improving their lives? I'll post mine. I highly recommend rearranging and cleaning your room/ living space once a month/ whenever you fall into undesired habits. I find that waking up to an altered physical environment helps make the mental environment more pliable Consistent sleep is generally more valuable than long amounts of sleep. For grind type activities that just require repetition I like to give myself an hour(maybe 30 min) of time to do the activity as well as I can. I set up 5 coins and every time I reach repetitive goal successfully I give myself a coin, anytime I fail I reset all coins and start from the beginning. Every time you reset you try to be as honest as you can about how well your performance aligned to a goal. I used to do this to practice musical scales on piano around the circle of fifths. It forced me to play slower so I could be more accurate with the notes I played.

Thread is about to reach its maximum amount of replies and so I figured this might be the place to post my final goodbye to my miserable self. >DON'Ts no porn, if fap only with inner thoughts and in night no vidya games whatsoever no watching any internet personas on youtube or twitch for the sake of entertainment/fomo no drinking for fun no visiting irc as a compensation for human contact no smoking as a way of hurting yourself ignore your parents when they try to reach out >DOs working out at home at regular intervals daily walk improve virtual notes organization be open to find friends in a meatspace find a job start to program in a free time get stuck in thoughts from the past get ready to move out from your current place next year Starting tomorrow.

>>72424 Hi, also my final post in this thread, I do not think I will participate in a sequel, well, these have been great and intensive 3 years in my life. Have I fulfilled all the goals I set out for myself? Absolutely not. Am I a lot happier and have a lot more direction which I think is a true goal of anyone, much more than any particular per se, as particulars, as I later will state are rather secondary results of success than pure achievements. So to get started with, be compassionate with yourself. I know it sounds extremely basic, but you have to be aware no matter what goal you set out to do, you will quickly learn your own limits and realise what works and what does not. And it is very easy to focus on what does not, but what truly changes you, is your capability to use your advantages to the best benefit rather than overly focus on your disadvantages. Of course, if you have some extreme addiction (which truly disables you from doing action, not having a wank/beer once a day lol), hygiene issues, etc, then take care of these primarily. You are not a saint, nor anyone you know is, so stop expecting yourself to be perfect and ideal. Be aware that all progress is non-linear. You doing one good thing, even for limited time, not finishing it, will add up and help you do new stuff in the future and be open to the possibility of change, and it matters a lot to belief in change. You have to try a lot of stuff to learn what do you actually enjoy, and what matters. It may turn out that you can manage to find an enjoyable way of life which is good for everyone that still works with some of your 'issues' and/or imperfections. You have to try stuff to learn what applies to you. Make notes, by God - do notes. Journal write whatever, again, do not overthink the method, just write things down. Do not care that much if the formatting or organisation is perfect as you can waste a lot of time on this crap - same applies to reading self-improvement books/videos etc. Thus, always try to be aware what are you doing day to day, and remember that a perfect system that has no results nor benefit to others is worthless in comparison to imperfect system that has results and is actioned upon. A 20 minute evening walk you do infinitely beats a gym membership you do nothing with. Shit happened, soykaf happens, soykaf will happen. Life will break your plans, change comfortable situations, make you come back to habits you thought you were done with. Your brain never truly forgets, and once put into difficult situation it will come back to old places and old norms even if they were not the healthiest or most productive. Demons always will come to haunt you, they truly take a lot Thus a good discipline goes a very long way. All communities which do not bring a benefit to you are unimportant. You can always leave a toxic community, relationship, etc. You might end up being lonely for a bit, but you can always find a new stuff. And also, look for real-world communities to join - hackerspaces, makerspaces, religious groups (although be careful with that), philosophy groups, AA, etc. Once again, whatever works and makes you feel better and helps you improve, is good. You cannot buy yourself out of your issues, you cannot impoverish yourself out of your issues. Here, I believe, only a middle way would work, where if you are to buy something you have to be aware if it will be to benefit. I have seen quite a lot of people conflate self-improvement with signifiers/symbols of improvement (i.e. notebooks, wild work schedules, equipment, etc), which can be just exhausting yourself and trying to convince yourself that 'I AM PRODUCTIVE'. What is useful will not gather dust. The other extreme is blocking yourself from positive changes and is as dangerous as over-consumption, as here you also want to create some symbols of your own negative state instead of taking all you possibly can to improve your own state. Independence, of any kind, be it mental, physical, financial, etc. is one of the greatest things to have. To be undisturbed by external factors and be able to make right choice based on our self-knowledge is something we all should strive for. You will always remain a beginner, and you always must be aware, there is something new to learn and that nobody is not a beginner, you just might be aware what they are not aware of. So be open, and know that there is never an end to learn or improve. You just will, on some days, be a lot happier and at peace with yourself, but even that is not constant and there will be worse days. I believe we all can make it, and achieve our goals, whatever they may be if we apply ourselves. I have faith in your and mine ability to change and improve not only our own lives but the lives of those close to us. I think that is all I have to share right now, if anybody wants to keep in touch with me, feel free to contact me at lain atto mikhal dotto xyz. I might expand this text and share with interested anons if I have some new things to write. This is also for me to remember and not forget myself. See you space cowboys :) Some cool links/books to look at: https://archive.org/details/xenophonsmemorab00xenouoft (linking books from archive.org/project gutenberg so the links do not die, feel free to get them by other means) https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/59 https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/10661 https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/10741 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%203&version=KJV https://archive.org/details/ernst-junger-on-pain https://archive.org/details/the-forest-passage https://monadnock.net/epicurus/ https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/happiness/words-wise http://www.ymparistojakehitys.fi/susopapers/Lasse_Nordlund_Foundations_of_Our_Life.pdf https://soma.cx/home https://anatomy.1651.org/ https://www.sqlite.org/codeofethics.html https://tilde.town/~dozens/sofa/ ( do not worry if this is a lot, this is just to look around and find things that resonate with you, always google related stuff to get more understanding)

>>28166 Goals: >no smoking, except on a night out >no drinking, unless I'm with the boys >no weed, period >no porn. ever. >send out at least 5 job applications every day >wake up at or before 8am >brush my teeth and shower every morning and every night, at 8am sharp >stop using my phone or laptop while eating >no more than 150mg of caffeine per day >shave at least once a week >do not engage with acquaintances who ghost me or double back on the plans we made >1 hour of light weightlifting or calisthenics every day >stop deriving my sense of self-worth from the opinions of others >2 hours of maths or programming revision a day >stop making suicide jokes >stop satirising atrocities, tragedies, and acts of barbarism >stop making fatalistic and nihilistic comments whenever something bad happens >approach strangers and new acquaintances with an open heart and an open mind >trust my friends >stop expecting the worst possible outcome during social interactions I might be a NEET and a lazy, nihilistic scumbag, and I don't know whether I'll actually work towards the goals I set myself, but I want to post this here. I know that somebody will read it, and regardless of whether anyone replies, I'll know that a few dozen strangers living in random corners of the world will have acknowledged the existence of this post.

>>76430 Moar: >no entertainment of any kind (include anime, music, movies and DO NOT fall for the "art" meme because art is also entertainment that wants to get you off of reality and escape from it. Only some "art" was used to wake us ignorant up like SEL or 1984 but are consumed once (no need to "re-watch" if you're already convinced on these)) >ABSOLUTELY NO TV AT ALL (fuarrrking propaganda machines deployed by governments to brainwash us). NO devices while eating. >Stop being miserable to find a job like a lost wagie and freelance or something while keep sending (get specific and start cheap to get reviews) >Some "friends" are just people who want to pass the time with you. A real friend is one who truly cares about you and is interested in you but also is transparent and not weird. >No junk food of any kind (to get big eat well) >Journal every single day for the rest of your life. (your children will love reading it) >To get motivated literally stand up from your chair and write on a sticky note in front of you "I am a rational agent." >Make a fuarrrking website right now (follow landchad.net guides) >Maximum 1h of Lainchan per day; not mindless scrolling but having some time with people who can understand you and can belong to. >Actually plan out on escaping the technoindustrial system to move to the country (it's going to get worse and worse with CBDC's, "smart cities" and social credit soykaf. >No tap water. >Make your bed every morning >NO CHATGPT, NO CHARACHTER AI. Seriously AI is nothing but a probabilitic algorithm that imitates what it sees. Some lains say "I want to improve my artistic drawings, I want to learn Korean/Russki/Nipponese" and so on and so forth. It's the hoax and lie that tell us to "follow your dreams, do what the fuarrrk you want and you'll be successful." Forget that American soykaf. You don't do things "just because you like them" but for having a more independent and happier life. Pretty much learning Japanese today may be irrelevant to your life in the future (happened to me) and even if you had it as an actual skill you won't know if much people will get interested in you at the first place. Success (financially) is done by making as much consumers as possible have more utility (satisfaction) in exchange for money; it's better to choose some people who suffer from something and fuarrrking help them, that's it. Be very specific on choosing your people to not get into competition. Applying for jobs is good but only temporarily; you don't wanna give your valuable time and effort for some fuarrrking boss who is ideologically following literally Klausi boy (Great Reset guy) and the others who are totally anti-Lain. Make value for people you love. What you want to actually learn is how your fuarrrking body works to maintain it, learn how "they" control you and who they fuarrrking are, learn how women think and act and get into the most controversial books that completely oppose your beliefs to crush your cognitive dissonance and get to know the truth even further. (read 1 chapter on each topic per day while doing the work) And of course some DIY skills including cooking your own food etc. etc. the aim is to become as much autonomous as you possibly can to limit your dependence on that greedy technoindustrial system. This guy made an interesting guide I watched a while ago: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PYaixyrzDOk I also reposted my visual guide here after it was at /vis/ since perhaps no one saw it. I hope you find it helpful and know that people fuarrrking reply and read to anyone including you.

>>76430 >>76432 You don't need restrictions and exercise routines. You need to do something that you actually want to do which will naturally replace everything else. Journaling every day, for instance, is just pointless, because each day is not interesting. Discipline is not a viable method to progress through life -- you need to do things because you want to do them. Forcing never works. I think that this program as put forth is intrinsically going to fail. You are not acting in good faith. In order to obtain the energy to do the things you want to do, investigate bioenergetics.