Talk about how it came up and how its improved your life/health for having done so
Telling my friends and family that I couldn’t hang out at all until I was out of the financial hole.
Its so stressful when people want you to roll with them but you’re in that jam and you’re preoccupiedby it
Yeah. Eventually I realized it’s not just money but even moreso time that I can’t spare when I’m behind.
As soon as I turned off my social life, my industriousness went through the roof. Getting up each day early to work is no problem somehow when I’ve just frozen all my social obligations.
All my life, very lazy, tons of procrastination. But as soon as I told everyone to hold until further notice, infinite motivation.
Started a savings account
#1 - quitting drinking. I’d have been long dead by now the way I was going. #2 - starting meditation. I’m still not sure how I went 30-someodd years in this body prior with all that noise in my head.
I took up smoking. No, not the lung cancer one. Cooking is one of the best things to keep me positive since I got divorced several years ago: treating it as a hobby I can be enthusiastic about, rather than something to do when I’m hungry. This spring I bought a smoker and had great fun learning new cooking techniques, new meal combinations, and enjoyed some excellent food. Previously I tried to do a meal from a different cuisine every week, before that I learned to use cast iron
Giving up eating meat. Not sure if it was cause or effect, but I got so much more interested in cooking food properly and looking after myself. Food and cooking became one of my favourite hobbies and 7 years later is still my go-to healthy wind-down activity that helps me relax after a long day at work. Knock-on effects have meant I’m happier and healthier than I ever had been in my life.
