When I get fast food, I don’t eat the fries until I get home.
When I feel bad emotionally, I clean. I do the nastiest, most unpleasant jobs; since I’m gonna be miserable no matter what, I might as well get some use out of it.
There’s definitely something to this. I tend to get a lot of chores done before my weekly floor disassociation time.
I also recently discovered this and it is so nice and genius
That’s kinda genius.
Stealing this
That’s interesting. I wonder if I can trick myself into doing stuff like that as a form of punishment. Generally I find myself unable to move so I just stare into space. Sometimes I have a hard time even moving my arms and legs to drive home from work. Or to get out of the car once I’ve parked out front. How do you manage to start?
I don’t force myself to start right away. After years of “well I guess I might as well” I now more-or-less automatically start washing dishes, doing laundry, and tackling yardwork when my mood dips. I still need to make the conscious choice to tackle bigger jobs like mucking out the basement or turnjng the compost.
I clean up when I’m done. Never leave dishes in the sink and such. I’m not a cleaning freak or anything, it’s just that I prefer not having to deal with these kind of obstacles before I can begin doing something else in that area.
Doing many small tasks is easier than doing a large one. Kinda like the inverse of “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”
Yes, for some things. Some tasks are better done summarized. Cleaning generally isn’t, because it easily conflicts with other tasks when not done.
I’m a rather busy family man, so if I have 20 minutes to cook a meal for the family before I have to drive someone somewhere it can really mess up the entire day schedule if the sink is full of dishes and the trash bin is topped up with unsorted garbage. So I try to be on top of it for my own sake. “Keep the tools sharp” goes for everything, even a diaper supply.
Dishes especially are one of those things that doesn’t take any quicker to do in large batches. It’s faster and easier to just do them after eating before things get dried on.
Even dish-cleaning-youtube experts don’t use their dishwashers anymore.
This is the way! I never understood people waiting for the dishes to pile up before cleaning them. I’d just be more demotivated to actually clean them up.
I don’t know if it counts as a habit, because I don’t have a schedule or anything, but I ride my bike an average of 150km per week.
Daily reminder on al devices to think of three things for which I’m grateful every day. I’ll do today’s list now:
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Despite the terrible heatwave in California, I now live in a place with AC for the first time in two decades (uncommon in the Bay Area)
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My current work is so chill that I can be on Lemmy most of the day between calls
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My partner genuinely loves our (my) kitties and takes great care of them with me
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Every day I get up, get on the exercise bike and watch an episode of Star Trek.
Thanks to this, I’ve seen nearly every episode of Star Trek multiple times.
ToS, NextGen, DS9, Voyager or are you a heretic I need to burn at the stake?
Enterprise really gets the heart rate up
Make and bring my lunch to work every day. It takes planning and discipline, but over a year, saves me about $12/day, or $3,130 a year.
I wake up and before I get out of bed, I put on some TENS pads and shock my back for some minutes before I do a set of stretches. I’m 42 and I have an active job lifting stuff, if I don’t stretch every morning I’m going to have a very bad rest of the week.
I’m extremely consistent with my weightlifting program (1.5 years aww yeah!)
Starting to lift with the best decision I ever made and the best habit I’ve ever formed. Nagging aches and pains are basically a thing of the past. I’m way more useful, and my lower body, which was once withered and useless after a decade of working in an office, have been replaced with tree trunks and a dump-truck ass
A couple of the accessory benefits of this that in order to support my lifting progress I now eat way better, quit drinking and prioritize proper sleep. Overall it’s just been a huge increase in quality of life
Dragging myself out of my house to deal with this maddening existence called life, despite every fiber of my being telling me to stay home and avoid all you annoying flesh-bags that just do everything you can to irritate me.
That and I read daily.
When i post on asklemmy i write my individual answer as a comment, so people can reply to it instead of the post, where should just be answers to the question.
Reading
Im not sure if it counts as a habit, but i never eat fast food
If that doesnt count: i always wash my hands before touching food
Everytime I get a meal with vegetables I eat that first no matter what else is on the plate. I think of it working my way to the best part of the meal
I brush my teeth and floss every night before going to sleep.
I’m paranoid about losing my wallet and other daily carry stuff, so I haven’t. Been carrying stuff for like 30 years. Never lost a wallet, cell phone,pocket knife, or keys. Couple close calls.
