Improve Yourself - what do you do?

[Fermina_Daza]

Well, if you really want to know.

This past year, a ton of training in CBT.
Along with practicing mindfulness. For the most part, that works for me but I have my moments.
Eliminating the unhealthy from my life. Which is a work in a progress.
Followed up by physical activity, healthy diet, healthy lifestyle.

Nope. Too much time spent in the local kink community and I always forget CBT is an abbreviated version of multiple things. :caning:

 

[pantalaimonlyra]

I've been teaching again so delving deeper into my yoga practice. The more the years go by, the more in depth into the breath, slightly moving away from caring about the looks of my physical practice and just appreciate it for what it does for my body and mind.

Started going to acupuncture regularly this year and it's been a tremendous asset to my mental and emotional well being.

Also this year, stopped consuming processed food plus most carbs, which cut down a lot of symptoms from PCOS. Yay food health

 

[emperor0379]

Psychotherapy, meditation, relationships.

 

[islandman]

Nope. Too much time spent in the local kink community and I always forget CBT is an abbreviated version of multiple things. :caning:

I wasn't very good at Clothed Bastard Training.

 

[silver gurl]

Nope. Too much time spent in the local kink community and I always forget CBT is an abbreviated version of multiple things. :caning:

Oh! I had to google. No, no. No kink in my stuff

 

[BrokenBarbie]

I learned that CBT also stands for cognitive behavior therapy!

This counts, right?

 

[islandman]

Over the past few weeks my attention span has waned. I find myself thinking, "Okay, I've done 10 minutes of work, so it's time for a 15-minute break."

Not sure how to address this other than to turn off all Internet-connected devices around me.

Anyone else have a similar experience? If so, what did you do to combat it?

 

[thør]

One of my bikes is on the trainer about 5 steps from my work desk. The trainer is boring as fuck-all to be on. But, when uninspired, I'll get up from my desk area and go for a quick spin. Just enough to get thinking about the next task and not enough to sweat. I can't say it always works. But then, the phone will ring and a client or consultant will need something, and I'm off in another direction.

 

[islandman]

One of my bikes is on the trainer about 5 steps from my work desk. The trainer is boring as fuck-all to be on. But, when uninspired, I'll get up from my desk area and go for a quick spin. Just enough to get thinking about the next task and not enough to sweat. I can't say it always works. But then, the phone will ring and a client or consultant will need something, and I'm off in another direction.

Ha!

I started doing incline and decline push-ups as a 'mental break' in the hopes that my brain will hate the exercise more than the task to be completed thereby forcing me back on-task.

 

[HisArpy]

I learned that CBT also stands for cognitive behavior therapy!

This counts, right?

Is there REALLY any difference other than the "training method" used?

 

[oneblueye]

hey...

In whatever way you define improvement.

Me, I signed up for Headspace this afternoon. Mediation is always something I've wanted to do, but my mind never seems to be at rest sufficient to do it. I have the time and the quiet to do it now, so, here we go.

Starting tonight and going forward, 30 minutes of Headspace guided meditation starting at 10:00 p.m. ET. Followed by sleep.......whether I'm sleepy or not.



So, what do you do?


Maybe I'll do it, too.

One way I used to improve myself was to stop taking myself so seriously.

 

[Champakian]

I went to college after the military. That was the last substantial thing I did to improve myself. At first, I read the thread title as Improv yourself and I was going to ask for a place and an activity.

 

[islandman]

One way I used to improve myself was to stop taking myself so seriously.

Been around too many guys who never grew up to ever consider this.

 

[oneblueye]

hey ...

Been around too many guys who never grew up to ever consider this.

Yeah, me too at the first... come from a long line of Mexican men afflicted by the "Peter Pan Syndrome". But when my urine started coming out like 'dirty milk' living without change wasn't possible.

 

[rockcasbah]

Well, if you really want to know.

This past year, a ton of training in CBT.

Sounds about right.

I'm happy with who I am.

I also take the view that most "improve yourself" stuff is hucksterism designed to profit from the average person's guilt and shame.

 

[islandman]

Yeah, me too at the first... come from a long line of Mexican men afflicted by the "Peter Pan Syndrome". But when my urine started coming out like 'dirty milk' living without change wasn't possible.

I'm no doctor, but I believe the medical term for that condition is 'ejaculation'.

 

[JohnQuillz]

I read myself to sleep every night. I prefer non-fiction, but sometimes I just don't want to read to think, but for pleasure. Pleasing yourself can be an improvement, right?

 

[doowdniw]

I try to practice everyday.

 

[Lydia_Deetz]

I work out about 6 days a week on average. I am also a constant learner and always looking for ways to develop professionally since that is a huge (and wonderful) part of my life.

 

[CornusKousa]

I think the most important part of self improvement is the decision to commit to the struggle, sacrifice and or pain it is almost certainly going to take to get the improvements you want.

Set your objectives, put a mission plan together and go absolutely all gas no brakes with it.

 

[Tim2run]

Then again, no gain == no pain.