GUIDE TO:
FIX YOUR SLEEPING SCHEDULE (1-2 months)
Try to wake up earlier every day. Like 5 - 10 min earlier than the day before. Until you wake up any time before 8am or soâŚ
If you struggle with waking up & snooze button is you bff:
Put your alarm clock as far away from the bed as possible.
Drink a glass of water right after you wake up.
Pour another glass of water on yourself right after you wake up.
Prepare some coffee the night before, leave it by your bedside, drink it after you wake up.
Have your blinds/curtains open, so that itâs bright after you wake up.
Try to go to bed 5-10 min earlier than the night before.
Track how many hours of sleep youâre getting. Aim to get at least 7h per day or 49h per week.Â
Increase your sleeping hours incrementally. Aim to get at least 1h of sleep more than the previous week. For example, if this week you slept for 41hrs, aim to get an extra hour of sleep next week, so itâs 42h.Once you get enough hours of sleep and wake up early-ish.
Try to keep your sleeping schedule consistent. It is really important to go to bed and wake up at the same time every day. Â Even if itâs weekend. Or even if that means, you getting less than 7hrs of sleep that day. Iâd say waking up at the same time everyday is the most important step, which will help you the most with fixing your sleeping schedule.
START EATING HEALTHY (1-2 months)
This step really depends from person to person, but firstly I suggest you take some blood tests to see if you have any deficiencies, etc. Especially, if you struggle with cravings. Â
Try intermittent fasting, if you struggle with binge eating or overeating. As it will help you to learn to listen to your body better: when itâs hungry, when itâs full, etc. Itâs really simple, there are many methods of Intermittent fasting, but Iâd suggest 16/8 for the beginners. (Google it for more info)
DRINK ALL THE WATER. Again, if youâre not drinking enough water, try to level up your water game incrementally. Download some water tracking app on your phone to help you. Drinking water will make you more energetic, increase your metabolism, and decrease you appetite (among many more benefits).
Track what you eating. I would really suggest tracking your meals for around a month. Because, most of the time people have no idea that what theyâre eating is unhealthy. Again, download an app to your phone for that.
Make your own meals once in a while. Not only this will save you money, but itâll help you to see whatâs really going into your body.
Eat less meat and more veggies/fruits. Go to your local market and buy some veggies/fruits, you have never tried before. Iâm sure youâll find your new favs. Eat/buy less meat. Not only itâs good for the environment, but it is good for you, too. Get a veggie burger instead of the beef one, etc.
Cut dairy. Find your new favourite milk substitute. Advice: Oat milk is really good with the tea and oatmeal/porridge; hazelnut milk is amazing on itâs own; cashew milk goes well with cereals.
Learn more about nutrition in general. It will help you to make better food choices and it will make eating healthy much easier in general, because once you understand all the chemistry behind the food and what it does to your body, you kinda donât want to make yourself feel worse. Here are some free resources:
- Human nutrition course from Alison.com
- Crash course Metabolism&Nutrition: Part 1 and Part 2
- The Health Nerdâs YouTube Playlist about nutrition
- What Iâve Learnt YouTube Playlist
- Human nutrition course from Alison.com
- Crash course Metabolism&Nutrition: Part 1 and Part 2
- The Health Nerdâs YouTube Playlist about nutrition
- What Iâve Learnt YouTube Playlist
GET PHYSICALLY FIT (2-6 months)
Define your goals. Do you want to lose weight, do you want to get stronger, gain weight, be able to climb stairs without losing breath, run 5k?
Remember - youâre half-way through. Being physically fit has a lot to do with what you put into your body. So, if you fulfilled the previous step of eating healthy - you are half way through!
Make a plan. A Reasonable plan. Be honest with yourself.
Start small. Like, 5 min exercise in the morning. Or doing 10 sit ups per day. Donât do anything overwhelming, like running 5k everyday if you havenât run for the past 5 years.
Make sure that you kinda like what youâre doing. If you absolutely hate running - donât do it. Hate doing sit ups in the morning? Try some yoga instead.
Explore until you find what you like. You donât have to go to gym to get fit, especially if you hate it. Find a type of exercise, which you actually like. Maybe itâs dancing or hiking, taking your dog for a walk. Sign up for several trial lessons of various sport clubs. Ditch âem if you have them until you find something that you love. Stick with that.
Do the small changes in your everyday life. Stairs>Escalator, Walk>Drive, Do some squats while brushing your teeth, switch from regular desk to standing desk, etc⌠ Find ways to incorporate being active into your everyday life
Track your effort instead of your progress. You cannot really control your progress that much (especially if your goal was to lose weight). However, you can always control your effort. So track it instead. This will leave you more motivated. As you will be able to see that you can do more and more everyday. Whereas, if you tracked your progress, you may not always get the result you hoped for, which might demotivate you and make you upset, wanting to quit.
BEAT DEPRESSION
Do the previous 3 steps and youâre half way through.
See a therapist/doctor. Depression is an illness, requiring medical treatment. So, get it. Remember: there is absolutely no fucking shame in having a mental illness.
Get some extra support. Talk to your friends or family. Or maybe someone on the internet.
Write it out. If you donât want to talk - write down your thoughts. It can be just as helpful. Itâll help you to understand yourself better, see problems in your thinking, etc.
Distract yourself from yourself. Get someone/something to take care of, so that you can, for a moment, stop thinking about yourself and focus on something else. E.g, get a plant, or a dog, or a fish.
Self-care day. Dedicate at least one day per week for self-care. Take yourself out, either to a museum or some fancy cafe, do some stuff you like, whatever your hobbies are, do some physical self care: bath, face mask, manicure, etc., listen to some nice music, watch a filmâŚ..
STOP PROCRASTINATION
Celebrate your victories instead of mourning over your loses.So the only thing youâve done today was write one sentence for your 20 page essay? Amazing! Buy yourself a candy for that!! I mean, you couldâve done nothing, but you didnât - you wrote that one sentence and thatâs worth celebrating.
Do it for only 2 minutes. If thereâs an important thing youâve been putting off for a while, tell yourself that you will only spend 2 minutes on doing it. If after 2 minutes you donât want to do it anymore, great, stop it. However, after 2min. you actually might want to do more. No pressure either way.
Track your productivity. Track how much time youâve been productive that day. Try to increase that time by a little bit every day.
Always forgive yourself. So, itâs been a week and youâve done nothing? Donât sweat it. Let it go. Blaming yourself will bring you absolutely nothing. Nothing good will come out of your negativity on yourself. So stop it. Forgive yourself and start again. And again, if you need to. Never stop trying. Always pick yourself after you fall. Beating procrastination and increasing your discipline is a skill. And all skills can be build on. There is nothing in you stopping you from changing. Remember that.
LEARN HOW TO DO TAXES (1h - 1 day)
Go to google.com.
Type in: âHow to do taxes *the name of the country youâre living in*â
Read the results.
GET MENTALLY STRONG ENOUGH TO MAKE PHONE CALLS
Remember that just as with beating procrastination, making phone calls is a skill. And, again, skills can be learnt.
Get a new SIM card.
Top it up.
Dial some random numbers and pretend to be a salesman, selling whatever you like.. E.g., trying to sell broadband, cable tv, trying to get people to donate for some charity⌠Or whatever really⌠Me and some friends used to pretend weâre selling kittens or wood logs. Alternatively, you can pretend that you dialed a wrong person and talk about whatever, e.g. âHey, Jess!! You wont believe what I saw today!! *start telling a made-up story*âŚâ
If you get uncomfortable - just drop the call. No consequences whatsoever.
Repeat until you build up your game and your phone-call anxiety starts to diminish.
SLAY THOSE BITCHES
Congratulations, now youâre ready to take over the world! Got get âem!!
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An anguished question from a Trump supporter: âWhy do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?â
Peni Delina Bedard ¡ August 31, 2019  ¡Â
The serious answer: Hereâs what we really think about Trump supporters - the rich, the poor, the malignant and the innocently well-meaning, the ones who think and the ones who donâtâŚ
That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought âFine.â
That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, âOkay.â
That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, âNo problem.â
That when he made up stories about seeing Muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, âNot an issue.â
That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldnât care, you chirped, âHe sure knows me.â
That when you heard him illustrate his own character by telling that cute story about the elderly guest bleeding on the floor at his country club, the story about how he turned his back and how it was all an imposition on him, you said, âThatâs cool!â
That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw.
That when you heard him brag that he doesnât read books, you said, âWell, who has time?â
That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didnât commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, âThat makes sense.â
That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, âYes!â
That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a manâs coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, âWhat a great guy!â
That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, âThumbs up!â
That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, âThatâs the way I want my President to be.â
That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries theyâre supposed to be regulating and you have said, âWhat a genius!â
That you have heard him continue to profit from his businesses, in part by leveraging his position as President, to the point of overcharging the Secret Service for space in the properties he owns, and you have said, âThatâs smart!â
That you have heard him say that it was difficult to help Puerto Rico because it was in the middle of water and you have said, âThat makes sense.â
That you have seen him start fights with every country from Canada to New Zealand while praising Russia and quote, âfalling in loveâ with the dictator of North Korea, and you have said, âThatâs statesmanship!â
That Trump separated children from their families and put them in cages, managed to lose track of 1500 kids, has opened a tent city incarceration camp in the desert in Texas - he explains that theyâre just âanimalsâ - and you say, âWell, OK then.â
That you have witnessed all the thousand and one other manifestations of corruption and low moral character and outright animalistic rudeness and contempt for you, the working American voter, and you still show up grinning and wearing your MAGA hats and threatening to beat up anybody who says otherwise.
What you donât get, Trump supporters in 2019, is that succumbing to frustration and thinking of you as stupid may be wrong and unhelpful, but itâs alsoâŚhear meâŚcharitable.
Because if youâre NOT stupid, we must turn to other explanations, and most of them are less flattering.
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Maybe heâs ordering a decaf because he has a heart condition, and youâre about to give him a heart attack and send him to the hospital.
Or maybe heâs just ordering a decaf.
Maybe sheâs ordering sugar free because sheâs diabetic, and youâre about to put her six feet under.
Or maybe sheâs just ordering sugar free,
Maybe theyâre ordering non-dairy because theyâre intolerant, and youâre about to ruin their day. Maybe theyâre allergic, and youâre about to sponsor an all black event in an open field.
Or maybe theyâre just ordering non-dairy.
Maybe they ordered gluten free because they canât process it, and youâre about to destroy their digestive tract.
Or maybe theyâre just ordering gluten free.
Maybe theyâre ordering this way just because they donât want the food, for whatever reason.
But are you willing to bet their life on it?
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