I’ll go first. After your turn the water off in the shower but before you get out, use your hands to wipe off any standing water on your body. Maybe even give your legs a bit of a shake. This way, you won’t drip nearly as much when you get out, keeping the floor and your towel drier.

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    If you see a problem you can fix, it’s best to fix it right away because very often it can become way worse if you leave it for later, costing more time, effort, and money to fix than if you just took care of it immediately. Everytime that little voice says “you can fix that later” you tell it to stfu.

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      Similar: the five minute rule. If you’re struggling to get started on a big task, do it for five minutes. Best outcome is that you keep doing the task, and it gets done. But even if you’ve had enough, then at least that’s five minutes’ worth you don’t have to do later.

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    Try to eat healthy and perform a minimal workout every day. Eat more fresh fruits or vegetables. It’s quick to make a simple yogurt bowl with fruit and granola, or a salad with lean meat or chick peas. Start with a few push ups, crunches, reverse crunches, and at least a 30 minute walk. Small changes gradually will help you feel better with how you look and feel with a small time investment.

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      Preach. Get a food scale!

      I counted calories for a bit to eat healthier and balance my nutrition.

      I stopped after 3 months but I quickly realized that serving sizes ae WAY smaller than you’d think.

      A bowl of cereal or chips could be 2 or 3 servings. Donuts and muffins are garbage. Ham and cheese? Triple the ham and cut the cheese in half. Mayo is horrible but plain mustard is 0 cal.

      I didn’t eat any less but I made my meals healthier and lost weight without changing my workout.

      I also ate bad stuff without cheating. Chicken salad for dinner and a scoop of ice cream for a late night snack under budget.

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    Take a lunch break, both of those things, lunch and a break. Do anything other than work and sit down to eat something so you can enjoy it. Take a break in the middle of the day, you’re worth it and you deserve it.

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      One of the hardest things for me. My relax space is home and I can’t make it there on my lunch. My brain doesn’t wanna switch out of work mode because then it could take way too long to switch back.

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    Smalltalk starter pack:

    • (during the day) “So how’s your day going?”
    • (in the evening) “So how was your day?”
    • (before the weekend) “what you up to on Saturday?”
    • (before the week) “what’s your week looking like?”

    Easy small repeatable things that open people up. I use it on everyone, and I make sure that I care about the answer because I’m genuinely curuous

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      I’m a runner and I can definitely tell that the largest determining factor for my physical performance isn’t diet, days off, etc; it’s sleep. Sleep is SO important.

      Edit: The others are still very important, but sleep is paramount.

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      After dealing with babies who didn’t want to sleep or sleep for long for a few years, I found nothing that can reverse or help with the effects. Fuuuuuuuck. Get it where you can.

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      That shit will catch up to you when you’re older.

      Especially as one of the risk factors for dementia is sleep deprivation

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      I used to not get enough sleep. Now I drive every day. Huge incentive to sleep 8 hours a night.

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      I’ll compound this with also learning what sleep schedule works best for you. Some people require 10 hours, others 6. Some people do very well with polyphasic sleep, others just need one uninterrupted bout at night.

      I usually sleep about 5.5 hours at night and I take a midday 20 minute nap, and I always feel very strong, energetic, lively. If I sleep 7+ hours at night I’m super groggy and have inflammation the next day.

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    The ability to admit fault and learn from your mistakes is the most important quality that separates a grown person from an actual adult.

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      Also the opposite side to it don’t keep hammering into somebody once they’ve admitted fault and are trying to rectify their mistakes (within reason).

      People will be a lot more likely to be confident in admitting a mistake and being honest about it if it isn’t blown out of proportion.

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      Totally agree. Some people seem to think it shows moral fortitude to stick to your guns and never admit fault, but these are really the weak-willed people in society.

      Another lesson of adulthood it has taken me an embarrassingly long time to learn is that when you are enjoying something and see someone—particularly a younger person—looking interested, bring them in on it. If it’s something you bought for yourself, let them have a go. This may entail a small amount of sacrifice if you let them borrow it for a time, but the joy it brings will make it worth it, and the world needs more of that today. I think about people who have done this for me in the past, and I have mad respect for all of them.

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      This is what puts a stop to most legal disputes as well. These company managers are always worked up about the LIABILITY! Of course attourneys are going to tell you to never admit fault, they want to bill for as many hours as possible. Just sitting down and apologizing goes a long way.

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    If a child gives you anything, anything at all, blade of grass, shell at the seaside, whatever - take it with real, heartfelt thanks. It is all they have to give.

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      My older sister gave my dad a dead bird she found when she was little. It ranks among the highest I’ve ever heard anyone shriek.

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    If you use fresh ginger root, you can use a spoon to scrape of the brown skin. Scrape the edge over the skin and it will just peel off.

    I didn’t believe how easy this was when at first I tried this.

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    If anything out of the ordinary lasts more than 24 hours, get to a doctor!

    Three days after Thanksgiving, 2018, I developed a really bad case of heartburn. “No big deal,” I thought, “It WAS Thanksgiving and I DID have the extra plate of sweet potatoes…”

    Super hard to sleep, couldn’t get positioned right.

    Monday, pepto did nothing.

    Tuesday, same.

    Wednesday, super nauseated, throwing up, called out sick from work.

    Thursday, the heartburn moved into my upper arms, which I didn’t know was a thing. Nausea was gone, but it was replaced by the feeling that there was a giant rock in the center of my chest, heavy, pulling down on all my insides.

    Advice line sends me to the hospital, hospital runs a blood test and finds I’ve been having a heart attack.

    Every time my heart beats, it only pumps out 30% of what it should, that heavy feeling was my heart getting heavier and heavier every heartbeat.

    Doc says 30% is the line between walking around, talking to people… and not.

    Thursday - Sunday, Cardiac Ward.

    Monday - Open heart surgery, ICU.

    Tuesday-Thursday - Cardiac Ward. You’d think they’d let a dude rest after cracking you open like a lobster, fuck no! Get up and walk!

    Friday - back home.

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      Yea getting up and about after surgery sucks but it’s the best way to prevent blood clots. Very glad to hear you made it to the hospital in time!

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      Holy shit that was one intense week! I really feel for you. Glad you got it looked at in time and hope for calm seas ahead.

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        2019 was one complication after another, almost died a couple of times.

        2nd heart attack in January, my heart did stop that time for 8 seconds.

        8 seconds is not a lot of time… unless you’re on the back of a bull or your heart stops.

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      I can back this, though not for a heart attack. I was foolish and never went in, twice.

      My body typically runs a degree below what most of us know as the average human body temperature, though this is disputed. Some time ago I got sick. Not like sniffles and some aches, what I got brought my body into fill siege mode for a week. My temps were fluctuating from 102 into mid-104 if I made the mistake of staying covered up for too long, or sometimes just cause. I struggled to eat due to almost no appetite, though I did eat what little I could put down, and slept on-off constantly, mostly dozed. When I was awake it was constant discomfort. Just me being a human torch and downing as much fluids as I could, with a careful mixture of otc drugs. I lost 17lbs that week. Many of you are aware of how dumb I was to not bring myself to a hospital. For those of you who do not understand: My body was in a state of absolute war. Me creeping into 104° was dangerous on a level that’s difficult to grasp, especially if it stays there, god forbid if it goes up another degree. Plainly put: I got lucky. I have no idea what I had caught.

      The other situation was a stomach issue caused, I’m convinced, by my body reacting very poorly to pineapple enzymes. Considering I am rather strongly physically adverse to going near pineapple now I’m sort of assuming my body knows what’s up. Anyway, I spent 4 days in and out of the bathroom, often nauseous, with commonly nothing to show for it. No matter what I did my body refused to process something. It’s like those moments where you forget how to breathe, except my stomach forgot how to process. Tums, Peptol, toast, time, heat, cold, showers, light exercise, nothing moved whatever lever some goblin pulled to cause my body to just say no regarding processing through whatever I was dealing with.

      Now neither of these situations are heart attacks. Point is, they don’t have to be. Our bodies are remarkably resilient and modern medicine understands this. We have developed advanced medical techniques that, with few exceptions, exist largely to give our bodies time to figure shit out. So just go. Even if it’s no more than a quick consultation and $100 for someone to say “You’re probably not going to die.” cause fuck me if it wouldn’t have helped me in both these situations.

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    If you’re ever randomly angry or sad for reasons that are out of your control and not the fault of anyone around you, make a small announcement. Something as simple as “I’m upset about X, sorry if it seems like I’m being short or snappy with anyone.”

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      Identifying and vocalizing your feelings is superpower. Good step toward living in a sincere manner. Obviously there are limits (Kant look away), but it makes life much easier when you aren’t worried about being cool and cagey.

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      I don’t like your comment, and I’m sorry if you take that personally.

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    If you shower at the gym, you don’t need a whole bath towel to dry yourself. A regular hand towel is sufficient, and it takes up way less room in your gym bag.

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      Bonus points for those really thin microfiber types. You wring them out as you go to get the majority of water off your body, the rest air dried quite quickly after that.

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    Hide an extra roll of toilet paper somewhere in the the bathroom, use for emergencies, tell no one. I smash one flat and put it up behind the false drawer covering the vanity sink.

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      Ah, the turkish cigarette trick!

      We called it that back in the day, because turkish cigarettes were the absolute worst smoke you could have. But in need, a friend indeed…

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        God I miss smoking. I quit near as not 20 years ago after a parent died of lung cancer, and still every once in a while I could f’kin eat one whole. You can “quit” but the craving never really goes away.

        Forgot my vape at home while out in town a few months ago. Stress and shit happened. Bummed a dart off the guy working on my truck. And it was like I never quit. It was so good. Words cant describe. Shit was amazing. But it was just the one. I’ve stayed quit. Only because of my family tho. Not like risk of lung cancer really matters anymore. WWIII, climate collapse, etc. Very few of us are gonna live long enough to die of natural causes.

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            I quit the tar and arsenic and 100 other odd chemicals in american cigs. I didnt quit nicotine.

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              As someone who mixed his own vape fluids and slowly lowered the nicotine to ~1.8mg/ml and then went cold turkey first on nicotine and then also on vaping. The craving for a cigarette full of tar is still there once in a while when drinking or when completely stressed out.

              Most of the time it’s my brain wanting “5 minutes of fresh air” while working on a problem or thinking back about a good time such as a beer, a smoke and good company during a backyard bbq. I can do those things without the nicotine, and I do.
              It’s rare now though, especially compared to how it was when I was still vaping nicotine.

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                I was a pack per day for almost 20 years. Switched to vapes 5+ years ago and stepped down the % and then stopped just like you. Haven’t had a smoke/vape in probably 2 years at this point. I still get a craving now and then but it passes, fuck cigarettes and paying lying tobacco companies to kill me.

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                  I’m just replying to this because I wanted to see what color came after purple in Voyager…

                  Edit: It’s pink!

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          As a smoker who quit before ecigs, if you do quit nicotine, it’s hard. But it gets easier every day. Now it’s just a long forgotten memory.

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      And I’m going to add something that helps me talk to my therapist: “If it’s mentionable, it’s manageable.”

      After you’ve tried to deal with something yourself and haven’t succeeded, telling someone about what’s going on, no matter how unimportant or embarrassing or burdensome or shameful it feels, is the first step to living a life of contentment.