I’ve designated one room in my house to be an Airplane Mode room. Technically it has WiFi but whenever I’m in it I behave as if my phone didn’t have any reception. Believe it or not, actively pretending that your phone has no WiFi works better than just passively putting on airplane mode. I always get a sense of calmness when I enter.
What artificial limits do you impose on yourself that ultimately enrich your life?
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After a long, unhealthy relationship, I ended up in a very promising relationship.
It took many years if half truths to her, and then full disclosures, and eventually, a full and total disclosure of my past, my desires, my weaknesses, the whole lot.
She barely flinched. She saw me for who I was / am.
From that moment we bonded deeper than I’ve ever thought possible.
Nobody could hijack us. Nothing could try to surprise us and derail / damage us. Shame was thrown out the window. There is none. We know everything. We meet as honestly as is possible each day.
Do it. I highly recommend it. However, there was a right time. If we’d done it too early, we wouldn’t have worked.
So with that backstory. Always telling the truth to my partner. No matter how scary it seems.
Truth, truth, truth.
Whenever there’s elections I wait for somebody to mention the result in conversation unprompted and find out that way, to stop myself from doom scrolling
I ignore the results until they’re all in as well. The time to worry and do things is before the ballots are cast.
I don’t drink at home. I’ll let loose when I’m out with friends but at home I don’t drink. I had a period of my life where I was very close to becoming an alcoholic. It wasn’t until a recovering alcoholic (using extremely broken English) suddenly seemed very concerned with me and told me I could talk to him any time that I realized where I was heading. A couple years later I messaged him to tell him how important that moment was to me. I don’t even know if he could read English well enough to get the point but I hope he understood.
No caffeine multiple days in a row. I often enjoy it, and I don’t think it’s really that bad for you, but I don’t like the way it adjusts my personality and state of mind if that makes sense and it’s easy to get addicted enough to start feeling like crap if you don’t have any.
It’s not as bad as nicotine, but part of what’s happening is your sleep quality is declining from going without your substances. Even without cutting into the later day it’s best to avoid drinking coffee or a lot of tea all the time.
Same here, I don’t drink a lot of it compared to many but I still try to take a month long break at least once a year to ‘reset’ so it feels good again instead of needing it to just get through the day.
If you’re thinking about something that takes less than 2 minutes, you should just be doing it. I will admit I got this from one of those productivity guys
no problem solving in bed when you should be resting. if something pops up, identify it & make a note (mental or otherwise) to address it at a later time.
My alarm is across the room from my bed. It’s been a long time now, but I definitely felt better after I started doing it.
While I’m waiting for my food to microwave, I will do the dishes. I only do them for as long as my food is microwaving, so they don’t all get done, but most of them get done in this time.
Ok this one is good
I brush my teeth whenever I come in from outdoors (even if that’s multiple times a day). That way, it’s doesn’t block me from going straight to bed once I start falling asleep in the evening.
I only buy mint-type candies. Junior mints until the trade war; something local now.
I need something to crush sweets cravings, but I also want to limit how much I’m actually going to eat. With the strong flavour, I find those work pretty well.
Have fun
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