Drugs.
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Drugs
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for every 15 minutes I work, I take a 60 minute break.
Every email I send means a half hour break
I hug a tree. I dunno if it makes life noticeably better but it’s a vibe. I lost quite a few trees in a storm last year and feel like I’ve under appreciated them for way too long. No more!
My wife does the same, and after we tried shoots the first time, I do the same now. Lost our second biggest tree last year in a storm, fell due to to much water, so the roots came with it, but it happened where we don’t need to trim it, so now it’s just laying there. We’ll let nature take it’s course. And we have enough firewood.
Edit: shrooms dammit.
Shoots?
From context I’m guessing it’s “shrooms”.
Leave slack DMs 15-20 mins before answering
It took me a long time to realize slack responses don’t need to be immediate. I usually have a slightly emotional reaction, but given 5 minutes I can gather my thoughts and give a much better response
My immediate emotional reaction is usually some degree of “have you misplaced your brain?” So it’s good to pause.
Same reason I have a 3 minute delay for outgoing emails.
😃 Approved… On my side more depending who is trying to talk to me…
not giving a fuck
still giving to much fucks, but at least i’m tying
Good approach
You should consider selling your fucks instead, at least that way you get something for them
Hustle culture is a, as I believe he kids are saying these days, “not a vibe.”
Very fucking good.
Masturbate.
Lol Also But, with a help, sometimes, it is more fun
I read an interview with Jenna Jameson a million years ago. The interviewer asked what was in the future. She answered something about her career and then, “make myself cum every day, whether I needed it or not”, and I think that is just about the greatest advice for anyone. I’ve rarely missed a day in at least 20 years.
The realest life hack.
To be honest even my go tos are not working very well. Walking, bathing, nature.
Proper sleep?
I try but that is the one that gets goofed up first by life not being great.
Sometimes I get
soloso tired and overstimulated I can’t sleep at night. Even closing my eyes for 20 minutes during the next day can mean I get a decent sleep at night. Also 10 or 15 minutes of morning sunshine helps, I think it helps melatonin production iirc.I always attempt to get about 8 hours a sleep everynight. I have been tossing and turning so my sleep has not been great.
Yes, everyone is different. Something else that helped was a bunch of bs happening and having a major ego death. I happened to be unemployed, so took the time to stay to myself except for going out for food and toiletries, quit the little weed and drinking I did and got really into doing what Jung called shadow work. It was painful, messy, and all-around not fun. But wholly worth it. After this community project is finished, I’m probably going to get busy with that shadow work again. I can tell I’ve neglected it too long.
Im with you on unemployment unfortunately. Closing in on a year. Just read another we ware not going with you and have one active possibility (contact after resume). Which has almost where I have been constantly at since the spring. Was worse from just before the election through the winter though with spans of nothing return contact wise (outside of we are not moving forward with the role). I doubt I will find an ego death and I have nothing to quit but soda. Which aint happening.
I think shadow work was the point. Best to you, either way.
Eta: briefly skimmed this, it seems decent at a glance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_(psychology)
I just had two opportunities say that they won’t be filling the positions at all, so that probably doesn’t bode well…
sleep
One of my favourite activity
Serious upvote here. This is a game changer, it’s right in front of our noses, and it’s free.
Hardest part is figuring out how to make yourself actually sleep - just lying down in the bed isn’t enough.
I sleep and eat almost every day.
Some people are able to sleep at the same time everyday and eat three times a day. I’ve never understood how.
Routine. If you do it everyday for a while your body get used to it
Edit: that’s what they say
If that were true, I’d actually have gotten used to people telling me “you just need routine”, but yet it still annoys me, after all these decades. No offense.
I was in the army. Doesn’t get much more routine than that. Didn’t do jack shit for the problems. In fact, made them worse. Want to see the several hundred pages of different lab results and doctors statements?
Lol no, I understand completly. I’m medicated now so that’s why I able to adapt to routine. Just assumed you were not like me.
Also I was lucky because I changed jobs and i now have a job that somewhat matches my body sleep window.
I’ve also gone through like all the medications.
What I actually found to help for the first time in my life (been literally complaining about these problems my whole life, GI-issues and sleep mainly, but up to actual seizures a few years ago due to the exhaustion… or smth, no explanation to them either) was a GFCF diet, a gluten- and casein-free diet.
But I have so many other issues now that it wasn’t clear to me whether I could do a routine when sticking to that diet. Hopefully. I’m back off it because you have to be on gluten for celiac testing and whatnot.
The only job I could do for longer periods (I was in it for four years) was when we were allowed to freely change our shifts between workers. Because I don’t have really any sort of rhythm. So I would do a lot of work but suddenly sometimes I just couldn’t sleep and that would just build up.
Then they took away our scheduling, because of overtime hours weren’t being attributed correctly and whatnot (we just did the shifts of another person, but even if the hours matched the pay often didn’t, as you’d get more from a nightshift than a dayshift), so then I had to quit there as well.
I should’ve just stuck there to be honest, I’m sure I would’ve gotten disability by now because they wouldn’t have been able to fire me for being sick. But nooo, I had to try to not be a problem.
But yeah if I could tell my kid self my dietary requirements I think my life would look quite different.
Make a cocktail before dinner. Not saying it’s the right thing for everyone, but it brings joy, relaxation and a nice moment of quality couple time with my partner.
A good drink can help to get back the good mood 😀
I do aperitif half the days of the week, after making supper but before eating it, and when weather permits, sit on the front porch or back deck to drink it.
It really is a nice pause. Not so necessary now I am working from the office again, when we had to work from home a drink was the absolute best divider between work day and personal time. Just one.
I am not needlessly cruel and violent to vulnerable individuals living in atrocity several times a day.
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Stretch for 15 minutes 2 times a day
Get up at the same time every day, even when I don’t have to. Having a nice solid circadian rhythm makes me feel much better in several ways.
I chug a tall glass of cold water first thing in the morning. Wakes me up a bit, gets the guts moving for a morning shit, and obviously helps rehydrate after sleeping.
Swapping to water for 95% of my fluid intake has been a complete life changer. I wake up feeling better, I sleep better, I can handle the heat and cold better, I’m more alert and able to focus throughout the day. It’s insane what just drinking mainly water does for you.
I stopped needing to use chapstick every 20 minutes
dance
listen to music
make my home a better place
