Hi comrades and welcome to the first improvement megathread of February!

I hope everybody had a great January and is ready to continue making progress and kicking ass 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.
  • What would you like to do next week?
  • What aspect of life would you like to improve?
  • 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?

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  • simpletailor [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    Things I'm proud of:

    • finished a feature-complete draft of my dissertation. Now pending approval from my chair to schedule my oral defence
    • started rock climbing again after years. One session and I'm still sore days later, but it feels good
    • been getting daily exercise, mostly drumming, for about a month now
    • kept myself limited to 1 alcoholic drink maximum per outing. This week my friends and I went out twice, so this was my first week with more than one drink since Christmas
    • came out to some friends and it went well

    Sites for improvement:

    • get back on a consistent sleep schedule
    • snap back to former life-work balance from before my dissertation writing binge
    • the constant productivity felt good, but I'd like to avoid these writing binges in the future to prevent burnout

    Upcoming this week:

    • having some 1:1 conversations with grad students about unionizing
    • a ludicrous amount of prep work for academic job applications
    • goal to get outside the house every day