What's your best habit?
We always hear about people's bad habits but what's your good habit? Mine is whenever I have a meal that has vegetables in it I always eat that first. That way I get it out if the way then I can enjoy the rest of meal without having to worry about eating it.
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I’m gonna need more rope!
I never hit snooze. I get up once my alarm goes off.
Probably helps that I sleep like absolute shit and was already tossing and turning anyway lol
oh dude, me too.
Sad high five o/
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Sad high five indeed lol
I never get up without snoozing at least once, even if I'm already awake
I floss everyday.
Same. After years of neglect, I finally had everything fixed at the same time. After 2 years of dental work and thousands spent out-of-pocket, I now floss and brush religiously.
Returning the shopping cart
I was a carry-out at my local hardware store for a few years in college. I brought carts in from the corrals and helped people load heavy stuff. I've seen and been victim to the damage caused when a rogue cart catches the wind and fucks off down the parking lot. People that leave their cart not in a corral or inside disgust me more than more most lazy people.
You're my hero, dude.
Thank you. I couldn't figure out anything I do right, but this is the thing I always do.
We are good people!
Probably writing. I make sure to write a little every day. I feel like it helps me keep a rhythm and allows me to reflect on the things I care about, the things I'm thinking about, and what I've done that day.
I always find it so weird to hear that there really are people that genuinely dislike vegetables. Or am I misunderstanding this? I love veggies :D
Oh, it's not that I don't like them. But if I have the option to eat a steak or some veggies, I'd rather eat the steak.
Well, to each their own :D
I like some but dislike most. I love peas, corn, (soft) carrots, black eyed peas. Green beans are meh, depends how they're cooked. Can't do broccoli or asparagus or spinach or any of the really green stuff.
I'm rather colourblind, so I'm really not sure what the really green stuff is. Are peas not really green? I thought they were orange for a very long time, but I'm pretty sure I've been told they're green, actually.
Black eyed peas freaking rock. I love black eyed pea salad with onion and tuna. A shame you don't vibe with broccoli... I love roasted broccoli, especially. Oh well!
Green beans, broccoli, spinach, brussels sprouts, stuff like that. Peas are green but they're kind of a lighter green instead fo the darker green of those foods.
Hmmm yeah, I guess I just don't get it - or don't see it, more accurately.
So the color isn't what bothers me obviously, but the color is affected by the same things that affect the flavor. There's a very strong green taste in stuff like spinach and broccoli that either isn't there or is quite a bit milder in peas, and that's what I have issue with.
I wonder if that's genetic; there's people that say celery tastes like soap, for example. I thought it might be something similar.
Celery I don't mind, it's just pretty bland without PB or cheese or w/e. I think you're thinking of cilantro though, and.. probably a combination of nature and nurture; I'm sure if I ate more of those foods as a kid I would like them more too. shrug
Since it's important for health to consume some of the green stuff, it's helpful to find out how you dislike it least. For instance, cooked spinach is just as revolting as raw, but you only have to swallow about a quarter of the amount because of shrinkage. Broccoli and Brussels Sprouts are better if you roast them until they mostly taste like brown. And shrinkage happens there, too.
Zucchini is a green vegetable that's less offensive imho, and can hide in a spaghetti sauce without ruining it.
Don't go with any recipe that "celebrates the delicious flavor" of anything you don't already like.
You can also be your own mom and puree veggies into the gravy/sauce of your meat.
Anyway, good on you for eating the veggies first. It'll also start filling you up, so the steak will feel more satisfying.
I eat celery and peas, I like scallions in certain dishes, I get pickles and lettuce on my burgers or sandwiches.. I'm eating plenty of green stuff, just not that green stuff. I've never tried zucchini tho, will have to check that out.
Unsolicited advice incoming!
Green beans stir-fried with tofu or something are great. Could also try broccoli stir-fried; if you manage to cook them just enough that they still have some snap, they're great.
Asparagus painted with butter, grilled, then served with lemon juice squeezed over them are heavenly.
Spinach I only like fresh so I sympathize.
I really dislike tofu, the taste and texture both are just blech. However, I don't universally hate green beans; a friend of mine makes this green bean and potato casserole with dill flavoring and that shit is great. But just by themselves, boiled or whatever, meh.
At that point you're just burying the flavor of the asparagus with butter and lemon juice, and I can think of better-tasting things to convey those flavors. ;)
If I make a typo, rather than autocorrecting or deleting a few characters I delete the whole word and re-type it from the beginning. That way the correct spelling gets into my muscle memory and I’m much less likely to make the typo again in the future.
If I make a typo, I try to keep as many of the letters on the page as possible - no need to throw them away and use new ones. Waste not.
This. Been doing this for decades and it's great. Still fuck certain words up for some reason tho. Separate, people, etc.
“ie” vs “ei” are my kryptonite. e.g. receive, sieve.
I after E except after C and when sounded like A as in neighbor and weigh (and a thousand other exceptions)
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Yup, I get seize backwards a lot cause it violates the i before e except after c rule.
Maybe if you think real hard about a person going into a seizure and flinging themselves backwards, it'll pop back in your head the next time you go to type "seize" and help you remember.
I mean I know how it's spelled, I recognize it when I get it backwards, it's just muscle-memory fucks me about half the time.
One of us! Also for anyone who doesn't know, you can do ctrl+backspace to instantly delete the entire word. It's usually faster to do that and retype it than it is to hit backspace precisely enough times to get to the typo!
Doing sport, regullary. It keeps me fit, healthy and sane. It gave me some pride in my achievements and more power in the long run. Even if it sometimes stressy to fit time for it in my schedule, it is worth it. It also taught me that I am able to do more than I thought, a very valuable lesson for me.
This is such a nice view! :)
Following my weightlifting routine (tactical barbell). I'm on a 38 week streak and I don't have the words to describe how much better I feel, and how much it has improved my life over the last few years. If anyone is even remotely interested in getting in shape, it's so worth it
I record events of the day, daily. Going on a year now. Just a quick jot of the most eventful thing of the day. Nice to look back and remember things that happened through out the year.
Use an app called "Daily You" in F-droid to help me organize it all, if anyone is interested.
I hate how hard I'm having to think about this
Your best habit is taking time to fully think things through before acting on it
Nice save but I'd like a confirmation
Youre probably bring too hard on yourself
I've gotten better at saying please and thank you often, I guess
I make my bed every day.
I tell people directly when I appreciate something they did.
I haven’t always had this habit, but I brush my teeth twice a day and floss before bed.
Telling my kids I love them, regularly and randomly. My parents only told me they loved me after yelling at me (or worse) and it took a long time for me to understand the toll that's had on my relationships with them.
Out of the 31 meals i eat per week, i usually cook at least 27...most of those from scratch.
You’re eating 4-5 meals a day? Bodybuilder?
Sounds like your kids are gonna be alright!
Heh. Yeah I guess I did my math wrong there hahaha. Let's quietly subtract 10 and forget it ever happened...
I do this often
On the weekend I will go for a 8.5mi hike to a abandoned fire tower and eat lunch. Same hike but I always see something different.
Taking off my shoes at the entrance of my home and get out of street clothes.
Not looking at my keyboard when typing. I switched to colemak last year, and since then I've managed to get into the habit of typing without looking. Which is very useful now that my keyboard stickers are starting to come off so it shows some letters twice and others not at all 😅
Every day, at some point, I think of three things for which I’m grateful.
Gratitude journals are amazing. I started maybe twelve years ago now. It's helped me slow down and appreciate little things more often. I remember starting out my journal and looking for big events in my day.
I quickly learned that on bad days, I'd have to stretch to something like "I saw a cloud that looked like a puppy." and that was when I started to look for smaller joys throughout the day. I also stopped depending on other people for joy.
Make my bed every morning.
Brush my teeth no matter how tired or sad I get.
Genuinely asking, why is making your bed a good thing?
Makes you feel tidy, visually less cluttered, it's a great small action to do to warm up your mind in the morning that won't aggravate you to stir your brain awake. It just feels good to have a nice made and good looking bed when looking at the room and coming home for the day. It's one little aspect of feeling like your better organized. For me it works.
Interesting. For me it kind of doea the opposite. I get it about keeping the room tidy, and I agree with that. The bed though, it just makes me feel unwelcomed. Like you're only supposed to look, no touching allowed. Whereas my bed feels inviting and welcoming.
Good for the environment? I recycle everything I can. I don't use plastic bags or single-use cups. I avoid using heating in the winter to save on CO2 emissions (used it for 2 days this winter when my gf was sick). I stave off aircon in the summer for as long as I can to save electricity. I'm vegan (mostly because of ethical concerns but also because meat is awful for the planet in general). I avoid using my car when there's an alternative (cycling/public transit).
Good for me? I do at least some exercise (stretching, workout, jogging, cycling) every workday and hike on the weekend. I brush my teeth twice a day, floss weekly, and get a full dental cleaning annually, and because of this (and genetic luck I suppose) I never had any issues with my teeth (don't have even a single filling). I don't drink alcohol or smoke at all. I avoid caffeine and sugars when possible.
I feel privileged to be able to form those habits, and also often blame myself that I don't do better. I'm addicted to fat and carbohydrate-heavy foods, can't bring myself to clean the apartment with any regularity beyond the most necessary, and can't form a habit of regularly reading books. Sometimes I wonder how other adults manage when they have a 9-5 office job with commute times, kids, etc.
So I didn’t go to the dentist for about 15 years. I had disgustingly visible buildups of calcified plaque around my bottom front row, and was becoming seriously self conscious about smiling because of it. All my wisdom teeth were still in, but only a couple of them were visible at all. Then one day I took a big bite of a taco, and all of a sudden it felt like I got punched in the jaw at the mandible joint. So I went into panic/maintenance mode, and booked doctors and dentist appointments asap, catastrophising that one of my wisdom teeth had somehow grown up into my jaw and was going to dislocate it, or something. It was a fucking delicious taco, too.
Anyway, turned out my wisdom teeth were fine, if fact the dentist was amazed at how well my teeth were holding up considering how badly I treated them/ignored them. Only one cavity, the only cavity I’ve ever had in my life, and in a wisdom tooth that could be easily removed, at that. So I got that pulled out promptly, which was one of the most disgusting experiences of my life.
Turned out the cartilage between my jaw and my skull had gradually slipped loose, and the bone was rubbing up against bone. Six months of jaw therapy and multiple awful, painful, and bloody dentist visits later, my mouth is back to normal, my jaw doesn’t click any more, and my teeth are looking great.
And now, I cannot, for the life of me, fall asleep at night without flossing first.
What were the multiple awful visits for?
Drilling out all the plaque from between my teeth. After the first session, I almost teared up at being able to feel the spaces between my teeth with my tongue again. Pretty nasty.
I always put stuff in the same spot so I don't have to look for it or think about where it is. Everything in my wallet has a place, everything in my pockets always goes in the same pockets, my work ID goes in the same place when not in use, my sunglasses have a spot on the counter at home, and on and on. Greatly simplifies things and reduces stress not having to think about where stuff is or might be.
I have bowls. One near the front door for all the change in my pockets, another for keys and wallet.
I always put my seatbelt on when I sit in a car. I always text the parking deck row/floor to my wife as we park.
I we ar my PPE. Most commonly eye and ear protection but I'll wear a dust mask when routing or sanding, etc. Allowing onesself to be injured in the shop is unethical.
Exercising regularly! I do it because it gives me a kind of rush, but I realize that it's also making me healthier in the long run (hehe)
I usally walk everywhere(if its further away than five km i would go by bicycle)
Washing hands...
Its impossible to not wash the hand after something dirty or when going from outside to inside.
Blocking people online who I find annoying
I like you :)
Sushi?
Typo :p
I don't understand your explanation of your habit. It comes off as you don't like vegetables and are choking them down to get to what you like. Is that a correct interpretation? My wife just made the best dinner and all three items were green vegetables.
It's not that I don't like them but if I have a choice of eating vegetables VS eating a steak, I'd rather eat the steak
That's what I thought too
I weightlift 5 days a week, I only eat whole foods with veggies at every meal and always brush my teeth before bed.
I make good pastries
I require physical evidence.
I always undo my laces before taking off my trainers.
No matter how tired I am, I always take a few seconds to untie my laces, because if I don't I'll wear through the heels and then I'll need new trainers.
I couldn't think of any good habits at all, but I do this too, so thanks. That's my best habit too.
I always get my coffee ready for the next day before I go to bed. Makes it easier to wake up on time when you know you have fresh coffee waiting!
I sprint stairs. Always. 3-5 a time, always have always will (until that future fateful day....)
Sprint up or sprint down? Cuz 5 stairs at a time up is mad talent
Five stairs at time down would break my ankles
Sproingy!
Self-study and exercise. I read Marxist-Leninist theory (as well as scientific articles and other non-fiction that interests me) every day, and work out 4 times a week. Both have significantly improved my life.
How have they improved your life?
Reading theory helps me understand the world around me. It keeps me realistically optimistic, without spiraling into doomerism or naive optimism. Reading scientific articles on space, tech, etc keep me curious and ever-learning.
Working out makes me feel better, have more mental clarity, and more energy. It's self-satisfying. It isn't necessary for everyone, but I enjoy it and the feelings it gives me. My attitude and mood improves with it.
Sounds nice! Thanks for sharing
No problem!
Never drinking too much. I have self control when it comes to that, but not food lol.
Wearing Monks' cloathes
Always finish a shower with cold water!
Learn to cook the veggies right.
Some veggies taste better roasted. Experiment
I'm good with general personal upkeep. Always do the dishes right after every meal, always shower daily, brush my teeth twice a day, etc. I also try to have vegetables every meal, but sometimes I will skip if I'm too lazy to cook vegetables (I'm also not too sure as to what constitutes "eating your veggies" tbh—do onions count? What about tomato sauce? etc)
I do yoga twice a week
Write down sudden ideas for memes and other stuff even when trying to fall asleep.