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Re: Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?

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Post by chad_strategic »

osrec wrote: post #276
chad_strategic wrote: post #214

1. 8 years ago delete my Facebook account. 2. 5 years ago stopped looking at my phone in bed. 3. 2 years ago delete my twitter account. 4. 6 months ago stopped looking at my phone & computer from dinner time to my son's bed time. 5. 2 weeks ago removed email from phone. Each step along the way, I feel better. Also regular exercise and a healthy diet. TODO: Meet more people and increase my social friendships. Also mor…

I've managed 1, but 2 and 5 seem near impossible to me! How did you break the habit of 2 and 5?

FOMO = Fear of Missing Out

JOMO = Joy of Missing Out

I have replaced FOMO with JOMO.

(I'm not perfect, cause I have FOMO with this post.)

Re: Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?

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Post by AlwaysRock »

Building exercise into my day. I've always worked out but up until recently I viewed it as 45+ minutes of my day that I had to dedicate it to that.

Recently I got one of those door frame pull up bars for the office and some dip rings. 80 (I worked up to that number) mon-wed-fri and 100 dips tue-thur has been a huge game changer. Even if I don't go to the gym at all I'm able to keep a basic level of fitness.

Throw in a 20 minute ab routine once a week, 25 minute sprint workout once a week, and a shoulders day at the gym and I've covered just about everything. Less than a half hour a day of exercise. Add in a healthy diet and I can stay in great shape without dedicating too much time to it.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?

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Post by else42 »

ponderatul wrote: post #207

Quit Facebook( which really means just access it 2mins per week on a Sunday, just because I'm on a few groups ). Close down Instafart. Quit watching porn, after realising the health risks are not worth the benefits. Quit buying sweets of any kind, especially sugary ones, for myself. I still buy chips for everyone when meeting with friends. I still eat sweets as long as they are made at home. And yes, I have cheat day…

Watching porn has health risks?

Re: Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?

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Post by tsenkov »

chad_strategic wrote: post #214

1. 8 years ago delete my Facebook account. 2. 5 years ago stopped looking at my phone in bed. 3. 2 years ago delete my twitter account. 4. 6 months ago stopped looking at my phone & computer from dinner time to my son's bed time. 5. 2 weeks ago removed email from phone. Each step along the way, I feel better. Also regular exercise and a healthy diet. TODO: Meet more people and increase my social friendships. Also mor…

I think I share much of your philosophy:

- started exercising regularly in 2013. The sport I choose is Boxing. I haven't done more effective exercise than interval training. And when you learn the technique(s) and get some sparring under your belt, I believe it has quite a positive impact on your confidence.

- In the last couple of years I've been a vegetarian primarily for ethical reasons.

- In that same time I had to learn to better control my weight through diet and calorie counting (sport helped with a lot of it, but vegetarianism makes it harder to get enough protein without going overboard on calories, so I needed to restrain caloric intake). Overall it was a positive change, even though the situation forced it on me, I got down to a healthier weight than before.

- About a month ago I started doing small sessions (10-20min) of transcendental meditation (I would basically calm myself down for a few minutes and then I would repeat a short motivational sentence in my mind). I am way too early into this, but I find the effects to be nothing short of fascinating.

- Few weeks ago I stopped using Facebook, I rarely use twitter anyways and I check email 3 times a day.

One downside of the last one is that I kind of started looking at HN a bit too much. :)

I definitely need to improve my social life and go out a bit more. So thanks for reminding me of that. Cheers!

Re: Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?

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Post by wilsonnb2 »

glastra wrote: post #78

Switched to a ketogenic diet with intermittent fasting 5 months ago. My sleep quality, mental clarity, ability to focus for long periods of time and mood swings have all improved dramatically. I am also shredding fat at a pretty good pace and apparently also gaining muscle (I lift every single day if I can).

Why did you pick the keto diet? All of the studies I've seen say that while it is very effective for reducing seizure frequency in children with epilepsy, it's not any more effective for weight loss than any other diet.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?

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Post by kieckerjan »

jumbopapa wrote: post #159
kieckerjan wrote: post #140

A cold shower in the morning. It is quick, cheap, easy on the skin, wakes you up and makes you feel like a champion.

A warm shower seems like such a big luxury to abandon.. don't know if I could do this.

Tip: start in the summer when the water temperature is still agreeable. Work your way up (or down?) from there.

BTW, I still take a warm shower now and then, preferably in the evening before bed.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?

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Post by softawre »

AlwaysRock wrote: post #268
gamerDude wrote: post #167

In November, I wrote a personal update later and found some people that I hadn't talked to in over 5 years. I sent 10 people that letter and said if more than 5 reach out, I am going to do this monthly. 8 of them reached back out! I felt honored that people still remembered me and wanted to keep up. I've been doing as vulnerable a letter as I can every month. And people I know from all sorts of relationships are read…

I've always wanted to do this. I have friends that I havnt spoken to in a while who I would really like to stay in more regular contact with but it's hard once we don't have a social reason to see each other on anymore. Every time I think about doing this I worry that it's way too self indulgent. I'm already a bit, see very, self absorbed at times and I think this would come off as a extension of that. Am I just para…

No, you're not paranoid, I would think it was self indulgent if I got a letter like this from someone I hadn't seen in a long time.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?

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Post by osrec »

chad_strategic wrote: post #281
osrec wrote: post #276

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I've managed 1, but 2 and 5 seem near impossible to me! How did you break the habit of 2 and 5?

FOMO = Fear of Missing Out JOMO = Joy of Missing Out I have replaced FOMO with JOMO. (I'm not perfect, cause I have FOMO with this post.)

Lol, I like it! The truth is, having emails on my phone is convenient, but not much more productive than just having them on my laptop.

Let me give the JOMO paradigm a try!

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