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I Improve Myself
Lately, I made it a point to practice continuous self-improvement. Here's what I've been doing lately and I wanted to see if anyone else has a structured approach on improving themselves?
1. I carry around three blank notebooks; ideas, self-improvement, and study.
The ideas book is for jotting down ideas about things I might want to create. It prevents me from just rushing in.
The self-improvement book is a list of things I want to improve on for instance soft-skills like communication or health-related like eating.
Study - I tend to write in depth in this book. It contains many notes around algorithms, computer programming concepts I'm studying or even about books I'm reading.
For each entry, I write the date and time. e.g., Mar 6th 5:37 PM PST (California). I find it interesting to see when I wrote those notes and where I was at the time. I plan to document the actual location going forward as well.
2. Eating - I'm trying to cut back on carbs and sugar. I found over-time it does give me a sluggish feeling.
3. Walking - I walk around 3-5 miles every day. I find it relaxing, and it gives me time to listen to audiobooks.
4. Sleep - I need to improve this. Typically I go to bed between 1 am - 3 am and wake up at 6 am for work. I want to try and go to sleep around 11:30 PM.
5. Remind myself of positive things in the morning. This is something I've been working on lately. I found it to be beneficial and it changes my outlook throughout the day.
How do you structure your life to improve yourself?
- skilled 8y agoFeels like an old paradigm approach you are taking here. I focus on three things only: healthy food (85% raw vegan diet), exercise (running, weights), and peace of mind (without this, nothing else matters). If either of these are out of balance, then I have to address whatever is standing in the way of that. Oftentimes, it means cutting something (or someone) out of my life immediately. Also, meditation, conscious breathing, yoga, and a spiritual outlook on life.
- mrburton 8y agoI also have been cutting things and people out that interfere with being physically and mentally healthy. e.g., when I catch myself engaging on Twitter about political or social issues I don't agree with, I give myself a "Social timeout" for 3 days. I found HN to be a healthier place to engage. I think it's because HN doesn't poke you with every reply someone does and it allows you to comment and move on. I enjoy that.
- methusala8 8y agoMost of these hueristics are things I picked up by reading Serge Fauget and Sam Hinkie. I use HabitsTracker to keep track of goals that I want to achieve: a) Meditation b)Exercise c) Intermittent fasting d)Reading e) Daily review. f) No Social Media g) Check mails once a day. H) Gratitude I track these goals and use Habit tracker to tick the ones that I have met.