- 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!
For me, removing email on my phone was "hard" at first, but literally just do it.
It's been maybe a year since I've done it.
For "emergencies" I have an "icloud" email that I treat as my phone email if I need someone to send me tickets or something that NEEDS to get get to my phone, but that's it. No notifications, just let it be intentional that you check it, and use it.
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 more meditation (Headspace app works great for a beginner like me.)