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Setbacks Anonymous 01/30/15 (Fri) 05:05:35 No.267

What is the most difficult challenge you've faced so far on the road to self-improvement and becoming /alpha/?

For me it's been those times when things seem to be going great, and then shit happens and you feel like you're back to square one.

You aren't really back at square one though, you've probably made a lot of progress, but it's hard to find that motivation again when life knocks you down.

Recently I felt I was truly on the path to getting my shit together. Most of my major challenges seemed to be overcome, and things were looking up: I was exercising regularly, using the internet productively, and was on good terms with everybody in my life... then shit happened in quick succession (a death, the holidays, family drama) and I seemed to disconnect from all the progress I was making.

I stopped exercising, went back to obsessively wasting time online; shit, I even stopped brushing my teeth for a while.

I've started picking up the pieces again, but it's been a good reminder to be ready for setbacks. It could be a good idea to put plans in place for what you'll do not if but WHEN things in your life take a sudden turn for the worst and you lose your motivation... sort of like the way Batman is always ready for when shit hits the fan.

Anonymous 01/31/15 (Sat) 18:20:59 No.268

>>267

For me, I keep track of the habits that I'd like to cultivate, and whether or not I took the action that I set out to take on any given day in a spreadsheet. Even just doing this can get you to be more observant of your habits if you do something to derive some kind of "score" from it. Just set out to increase your score. For me, if I fail on certain tasks (and my rules have gotten pretty complicated), I "fine" myself - I charge myself an amount to be deposited in this savings account that I've set aside for the event I lose my job or something, I don't allow myself to use it for anything else (and I don't even have an ATM card at that bank, making it a little more difficult to get out of it). But people often find it more motivating to keep a "score" of what they do, and you'd be surprised and how once you boil it down to a number, how much more attention you pay to it for some reason.