Hello comrades and welcome to the first improvement megathread of June! It’s the beginning of the month, great time to set your goals and priorities for this month.

As usual, some discussion ideas:

  • Do you want to share something you’ve done in the previous week? Everything counts, nothing is too small.
  • How was your May?
  • Do you have any goals or priorities for June?
  • 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: Glory to the first cosmonaut U.A. Gagarin!

Good luck with your goals! yuri

  • goose [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 months ago

    After a long nine months of juggling homeschooling and part-time work, the kids are starting summer day camp tomorrow, which means June-July-August is officially Work On Myself Summer™

    • Closing all the movement/exercise/stand rings on my smartwatch every day (14 day streak so far)
    • Logging all the food I eat so that I don’t just mindlessly grab small snacks throughout the day (2 days so far)
    • Biking the kids to and from summer camp when weather permits (final year for this as they’re getting too big for the bike)
    • Getting back into Synth Riders as a quick, fun workout
    • A daily shoulder/back stretch exercise routine so that the aforementioned workout doesn’t wreck my shoulder
    • Picking a video game to focus on until I’ve beaten it, then moving on to the next one

    Even with work ramping up, I’m gaining at least 20 hours of time per week of time from this summer camp thing. I am so excited for this. Honestly, the biggest risk is that I overdo it and mess up my knees or something during this first week.

    Last time I started a routine like this, it lasted for 500 days because it just felt so good to just refuse to stop getting a little bit better every single day. I’ve let life claw back so much of the gains I made over the last four years, but at least for the next three months, I’m back in control of this thing

    • moonlake [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Hell yeah, that’s a good routine skeleton-motorcycle

      I’m also doing exercises for my back, I’m doing the McGill Big 3.

      Btw I’m also trying to stick to one game for at least 15 hours before moving on to the next one, I don’t want to be jumping to a different game every day. What is your current pick?

      • goose [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        Thanks for sharing that video; I have a much better understanding of good bird dog form now!

        I’m gonna finally complete Astro Bot Rescue Mission and then move on to wrapping up a nearly-finished Cyberpunk 2077. What are you focusing on?

        • moonlake [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
          3·
          5 months ago

          I’m glad you found it useful :)

          My main game is currently Mad Max, I picked it up recently to get hyped for Furiosa. It’s fun as hell, I definitely recommend it. I would also like to go back and finish RDR2 and Midnight Suns. I haven’t played Cyberpunk yet but I bought it recently on a sale and I’m looking forward to playing it!

          Btw what are you using to log your food? I’m using Cronometer and it’s super easy to log stuff in the browser on my computer, you can copy and paste entire days and edit entries easily.

          • goose [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            3·
            5 months ago

            I’m using Foodnoms which is a nice little iPhone app with one of the best “AI” functions I’ve seen: if a food isn’t in the database, it can take its best guess at the nutritional info.

            Mad Max is a good one; it’s really satisfying to take the Magnum Opus from a frame on wheels to a machine of legend. I never did beat it; let us know how it holds up at the end