[emit_time]

Sleep and exercise are the two most important things you should absolutely be doing to improve your life.

Followed by diet and meditation.

Also, if you’re anything like me, forcing yourself to spend time with people will make you significantly happier. (Speaking as someone who has a tendency to isolate themselves.

[ariosto]

This. Also, I'd like to add: being kind to yourself.

[justforfunhere]

How to be kind to yourself? I have heard this phrase before, but never able to figure out what it means!!

[emit_time]

In your head don’t spend time going over how you could have done things better/differently. Initial evaluation is good when things could have gone better, but past a certain point you’re just beating yourself up and getting worse than nothing out of it.

If you beat yourself up mentally to much, it’ll make it harder to do anything, because you’ll be afraid of failure etc.

That’s partially how I think of it anyways.

Also, be realistic with your expectations.

[emit_time]

As someone who was not kind to themselves for a long time, I highly recommend this.

[natalyarostova]

Two points: 1.) I strongly, strongly agree. 2.) With the exception of meditation, for some people meditating can actually be dangerous/bad for many weird complex reasons.

[emit_time]

Source? Genuinely curious, surprised I haven’t stumbled upon that before. I know long retreats can trigger psychosis, but that’s at one extreme

[gitgud]

Sleep, exercise, diet and meditation are my weakest qualities...

[emit_time]

That's essentially the worst thing you could be doing for your long term health and happiness. I suggest starting with sleep, moving to exercise (compliance is better than difficulty, i.e. better to start walking and follow through compared to saying you'll go to the gym 5 days a week and go 0).

[rrishi]

Same here :(