Hello comrades and welcome to the second improvement megathread of July!

Some discussion ideas:

• How was your week?
• Do you have some plans for next week?
• Do you have any sober days or streaks?

Poster caption: "Learn, like Lenin!"

::: spoiler poster lore The book held by the boy, “Childhood and School Years of [Vladimir] Il’ich’ [Lenin]", was written by Anna Il’ich’ Ul’ianova-Elizarova the eldest Ul’ianov sibling born to Il’ia Ul’ianov and Mariia Blank who were also Vladimir Lenin's parents. The statue depicts young Valdimir Lenin and the stamp in the book reads “For outstanding attendance and exemplary

Hello comrades and welcome to the first improvement megathread of July!

Some discussion ideas:

• How was your week?
• Do you have some plans for next week?
• Do you have any sober days or streaks?
• Do you have some plans for July?

Poster caption: "To the soviet people – the first builder of socialism. Glory!"

Visible muscle gain has dropped off hard but I’ve maintained weight and dropped another belt loop! Picked up a 40lb weighted vest that I’ve been walking my dog with in the mornings and have tried to do pushups in it (pulled a tricep lol) but been eating more high protein salads for lunch!

Hello comrades and welcome to the fourth and last improvement megathread of June!

Tomorrow is the last day of June so this is a good time to review our progress from this month and set goals for July. Pride Month is over, get ready for Wrath Month.

Some discussion ideas:

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        - How was your week?
    - Do you have some plans for next week?
    - Do you have any sober days or streaks?
    - How was your June?
    - Do you have some plans for July?


  

Poster caption: "Women Workers, take-up rifles!"

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Hello comrades and welcome to the third improvement megathread of June!

Some discussion ideas:

• How was your week?
• Do you have some plans or goals for next week?
• Do you have any sober days or streaks?

::: spoiler Poster caption “The Red Army is bringing liberation to the oppressed of the whole world”.

This poster was issued in 1919 and it contains two emblems of the Soviet Union in use during that period.

The emblem of the hammer and plow (visible in the small red star at lower right) is the earliest Soviet emblem. It was first used in April 1918 as a badge for the Red Army. The hammer and sickle (visible on the flag) was officially recognized in July 1918 when the Congress of Soviet

Hey c/self_improvement.

Right now I’m really hitting a bad part of my journey. I’m seriously doubting my reason to keep going. I put in all this work and I almost never see any reward for it. Can’t lose fat no matter how hard I work out. I’m totally unemployable and while I have a summer gig right now, I can’t live through another 9 months of unemployment and I know that’s what’s in my future because no employer wants to touch me with a ten foot pole.

Right now, I’m looking at taking some college courses. But what’s the point if I’m not top of my class? No employer would want to hire me if I’m not perfect in every conceivable way. I have nothing to offer the world that literally everyone else can’t. It’s like I am ontologically inferior to everyone.

EDIT: thank you so much for all these responses.

Hello comrades and welcome to the second improvement megathread of June!

Some discussion ideas:

• How was your week?
• Do you have some plans or goals for next week?
• What would you like to accomplish by the end of June?
• Do you have any sober days or streaks?

Poster caption: "Long live the union of workers and farmers, the base of soviet power!"

Good luck with your goals!

about a month ago i started doing electrical work (4 10s, Monday-Thursday). prior to this i had been working out 3 times a week and getting a lot of stuff done around the house. i still have a few hours of free time in the evenings, how do i not spend it dicking around on my phone?

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5264629

I want to integrate yoga in my fitness routine, because I am pretty weak in balance and stress management. But when I try searching for stuff on it online, I run into two problems:

1. I get overwhelmed by the amount of content. A Youtube channel like "Yoga with Adriene" has hundreds of videos and dozens of playlists, each covering a different perspective and set of exercises. I don't know from myself what I want, so it leads to me unable to choose.
2. I either get impatient or roll my eyes at the way yoga is commonly talked about. Even if there's no mention of more spiritual elements, I feel prejudiced against the usually slow pace and mindfulness talk, even though that's precisely what I want to practice.

I have a membership at a small gym, but they don't have any yoga classes, and I don't want another membership for yoga coaching on top of that. Are there ways around this?

Some insights:

My dad is for sure my no. 1 trigger. He's sick and taking his bullshit out on me which made me super fucking angry and depressed so I took out some money and self-medicated.

18 days is pretty good clean time. My personal best is still 20-something days I need to beat.

I noticed I'm right back to hitting the vape as much as I did before, like my tolerance was still pretty high.

So anyway I'm not going to beat myself up too much given the state of well literally everything and me being a mentally ill addict with very few ways to cope.

Hello comrades and welcome to the second improvement megathread of June!

Some discussion ideas:

• How was your week?
• Do you have any plans for next week?

Good luck with your goals!

Sometimes, you have to say “no.“

In fact, you should say no a lot more often. As Warren Buffett says, “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”

The late Steve Jobs agreed. “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on,” Jobs said, which “means saying no to the hundred other good ideas.”

But saying no can come at a cost. Say no to a friend’s request and their feelings could be hurt. Say no to an employee and their sense of engagement could be damaged. Say no to a long-term customer, and they may consider looking elsewhere.

However justified, saying no can often negatively impact a relationship.

Unless you say no the right way. Never Reference Time

But first, the wrong way to say no. According to a study published in Journal of Consumer Psychology in 2021, saying, in effect, “I don’t have time” when you decline an invitation or request can cause the person you tur

Hello comrades and welcome to the first improvement megathread of June!

It's the first day of June, a great opportunity to review the progress from last month and make some plans for this month.

Some discussion ideas:

• How was your May?
• Do you have some plans or goals for June?
• How was your week?
• Do you have any plans for next week?

poster caption: "Our Future - Communism!"

Good luck with your goals!

Hello comrades and welcome to the fourth improvement megathread of March!

This Thursday was the first day of Spring. What would you like to do in the next 3 months of spring?

Poster caption: "The Soviet woman – with equal rights and an active builder of communist socialism!"

Hello comrades and welcome to the fifth improvement megathread of September!

Only two more days until October, it's a good time to make some plans for the following month.

As usual, some discussion ideas:

• Do you have any plans for October?
• Do you want to share something you've done in the previous week? Everything counts, nothing is too small.
• Do you have any goals or plans for next week?
• Do you have any streaks? For example, "sober for one day." Feel free to post your streak every day in this thread.
• If you don't have a continuous streak, did you manage to abstain from something for a day or more?
• Did you come across some useful information or resource that might help others?

Poster caption: "What the October Revolution gave to the worker and peasant woman"

Good luck with your goals! ![unity](https://lazysoci.al