Name 1 Small Habit You Picked Up This year That Greatly Improved Your Quality Of Life. Let's Go!

Lifting. I started working out last August and I always feel great about myself. If I can add one more, showering everyday, gives you that refreshment feeling you're looking for to kickstart your day.

I am literally building a tool collecting indiehacking-related habits (https://themakerswalk.website/) so I am thinking about this a lot :D

My favorite...is probably either coding daily (>= one commit on GitHub, you get the nice colored tile for it) or getting rejected once a week (haven't really found the perfect mechanism yet, but I think it's incredibly powerful)

Journaling at the end of every day. During the work week, its mostly about things I accomplished or things I thought about and want to review later. During the weekend, its more small things that I enjoyed and want to hold onto a little longer.

I recently implemented being very intentional with my time and tasks, which has had a very positive impact. It might sound basic, but having intention with every task you do often leads to great attention, motivation and purpose. Not just finding yourself mindlessly scrolling IG or something else.

Now I try to specify 2-3 main tasks I want to get done by the end of the day and their intention. I describe how I'm going to get those tasks done. The more detailed the better. For example; Today I want to spend 1 hour catching all the loose ends in my inbox, Notion workspaces and socials to not miss anything and have a clean slate for tomorrow.

I've found this approach to be very helpful compared to a regular todo-list (which you can keep separate).

This year I read "Bullet Journal Method". So I start to note my things following the book and It does help me in many ways.

This is the first time I can really organize my day-to-day job. It's also help me to load my thought to the note, so I can reduce stress along the way.

Anyway, I still a long way to go for note. I still can't have a good writing which mean I can't load all my thought to the note yet. So next year will be more practicing on this issues.

Drinking more water. Tip: purified and chilled water is much more pleasant!

Specifically tie that to drinking
non water drinks. Coffee plus water chaser,
for example.

Many more habits but thats the one I picked for bang/buck.

I just found out about GPT and it's been helping me a lot in my work and learning. I also just discovered an extension for search engines. It's very convenient, everyone should try installing it and see how it goes. You need to log in to the main OpenAI page and use it on search engines.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chatgpt-for-search-engine/feeonheemodpkdckaljcjogdncpiiban/related?hl=en-GB&authuser=0

It's a subspecies of a habit, I have got into the habit of always asking myself what I have done well to date and if there has been any failure to ask myself how I can improve and forget the failure.

So that I can concentrate on the present with an eye on the future.

Meet successful people so you get inspired

I do a minimum of 6000 steps every day. Either by running or by walking. It has improved my sleep quality and while I do it, I have time to listen to audiobooks and podcasts.

Journaling my inner dialog to reveal how much I was holding myself back by overthinking, aiming for perfection and being self critical

I used my own app to do this and making a habit out of it has led to lasting positive change
The app is called 6000 thoughts and available on iOS https://apple.co/3TNZCEa and Android https://bit.ly/6000thoughts

time boxing tasks.

I started Intermittent Fasting this year, fasting almost 16-17 hours a day. It has been the most blissful thing for my productivity, I feel so active and can be very creative for the most part of the day.

I'm trying to build a habit of launching fast. till now, launched 1 product, and one making.

the goal is to eliminate the fear of launching

Interestingly, I took indie hacking as a habit that significantly improved my well being.

My corporate day job is soul sucking, JIRA, agenda-less meetings, solution architecture blueprints...

But anytime I open my emacs with ruby on rails codebase my life is injected with pure joy, love and meaning. Even if my project never earned a dime, I already received more energy by creating it.

In case you didn't see it:

Progression.
This year, I picked progression over perfection. It has helped me grow in all aspect. For instance, I've tweeted on Twitter for 200 days consistently in a row, according to Tweet Hunter's Twitter Streak.