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Wellness Wednesday for January 8, 2025

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

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I had 2 terrible fucking weeks of bad output and zero discipline due to new years, had a lot of people visiting Rajasthan, I went out every other night nearly, so back on the thing now, my aim is still the same of 180 xp of mathacademy where 1xp should take you 1 minute which means 3 hours, 2 hours each for boot.dev and this book learning web design for frontend. I got like 2 good days. Did not workout, rehab or meditate at all either so overall terrible week, worse since I started this all back in November.

I did sleep earlier yesterday, wake on time, and bang out math and backend yesterday. I have three more days left in the week, so I am aiming to get the remaining three right. I hope by next week I can have four good days of my six-day week and sleep on time.

I will also step back from culture war posting, just not worth it, a lot of it is fake too, I spoke with this adrian dittman guy who everyone thought was musk about NRx so that was funny. Logging this for posterity more than anything else. I have a therapy session scheduled for next week, my sessions are mostly about my productivity and to ensure that I abide by the plan and my timetable, I log what I do daily for those reasons.

Apologies if my post has typos, I did a 5-hour math session just now, it was supposed to be 3 as each xp should take 1 minute but I kinda felt under the weather today so it dragged on, took 5 hours to get 180 xp.

I understand nothing about the mathacademy commentary here but I encourage you to continue pushing self-discipline.

Appreciate the sentiment, consistency of any kind and self discipline are of utmost importance at least for the coming years for me.

Math academy is where I learn math from, you should do 1 xp in a minute but I took way longer as I was not mentally sharp.