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Ask HN: What habit have you dropped or picked up that improved your life?

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Re: Ask HN: What habit have you dropped or picked up that improved your life?

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Post by LeonM »

waltercfilho wrote: post #8

Stopped adding sugar to my hot drinks, completely.

I once complained at the office that we were out of sugar at the coffee corner, after same asking around, I found out that I was the only one in the office drinking coffee with sugar. That meant I alone consumed the entire box (1500 portions of 5g) of sugar... A collaege gave me the best advice ever: "It's all between your ears, stop with sugar and within a week you'll no longer mis it". He was right.

Re: Ask HN: What habit have you dropped or picked up that improved your life?

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Post by oskarth »

aegiso wrote: post #13

10K run every day and 10 hours of sleep. The productivity gains are in the 2-3x range.

Prior to doing this, did you walk 10K every day? Curious about the diff between 10K run vs 10K walk. Personally, weightlifting 3x a week and roughly 10K walking every day does the same thing as running did.

Re: Ask HN: What habit have you dropped or picked up that improved your life?

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Post by kzisme »

ragatskynet wrote: post #18

I started running and waking up earlier. They looked so big to begin with but they were very very easy to adopt. Now i am trying to finally quit smoking once and for all.

How do you get up early? I've always been a night person and currently it's 7am and I haven't slept.

Re: Ask HN: What habit have you dropped or picked up that improved your life?

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Post by kiyanforoughi »

Switching off the sound my phone makes each time I receive an email, text or messaging notification.

I also stopped checking my email actively in the evening (only once before going to sleep to make sure there are no emergencies) and I try not to touch it more than once on Saturdays.

I have such a clearer mindset now these days.

Try it! You'll see.

Re: Ask HN: What habit have you dropped or picked up that improved your life?

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Post by vojant »

sentinel wrote: post #20

Picking up the habit of working regularly on side-projects. I am lucky enough to have a couple of friends interested in working on the same project as myself. The habit of all of us getting together for a couple of hours during the weekend has tremendously advanced the project. It helps to work with friends or people in general, because it rarely happens that none of us are in the mood for working. And when we are, w…

That's really cool. When I've been trying to work with someone else on side projects, someone always wanted to quit. It's really hard to find people who will do that regularly.
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