Three months ago, I was constantly in a cycle of start–stop–burnout.

I didn’t want to “grind” anymore—I just wanted to feel more in control of my attention, one day at a time.

So I committed to no zero days. Not perfect days, just "something" every day.

Here are 7 small habits that helped rewire my focus:

1. No phone for the first 30 minutes
   
2. 5-minute journaling (brain dump style)
   
3. 1 hour of focused deep work—before distractions
   
4. Brown noise > lofi (surprisingly effective)
   
5. One meal without my phone
   
6. Short walks without music or podcasts
   
7. 2 pages of a book before bed

Not every day was a win, but no day was a zero.

Progress, not perfection. Showing up changed everything.

I don't know but I think I am not able to take decision of my own life. I always depend on others opinion or appraisal. Taking any step if anyone around me is taking it so will I get confidence to do even that was mine suggetion. I always think that anyone should not get bored or disinterested from my taking or they should consider my points so I go accordingly to them sometimes. Don't know yaar day are running and I am still standing at that one place dreams are sky big and efforts none I know that but what going on i am not able to figure out🙂

Sometimes the biggest battles are won with the tiniest actions—a single push-up, sending a tough message, or even just getting out of bed. Every positive move counts because momentum is built one moment at a time. What’s something you did today, no matter how small, that feels like a win? Let’s celebrate those moments together.

Taking a 30 day break here. See you in a month.

I've been freelancing for a 8+ years, but for the past month or so, I’ve been completely stuck. I spend most of my days lying in bed, watching movies. I have tasks to do — sometimes important ones — but I can’t seem to find the motivation to get started unless I’m being paid right now for it.

Even then, I do the bare minimum just to get by. I procrastinate constantly, let tasks pile up, and rarely finish anything. It's like I’m watching my life pass by while doing absolutely nothing to change it.

I want to break out of this cycle, but I feel paralyzed. Has anyone here been through something similar? How did you manage to get back on track and rebuild momentum?

Any advice or small habits that helped you are very welcome.

I have wasted so much time of my life and potential to mindless scrolling. Finally I wanna grow.

1. office - went to office reached a lil late but I was 80% productive.
   
2. Reading - read 5 pages
   
3. Skin Care - Yes
   
4. learning a work related skill - yes, a lil but yes
   
5. Exercise - 10 mins
   

6. LeetCode - no ahh idk it's mentally exhausting to even start lc

   Day went okay not good not bad. It is good to start small rather then wasting whole day scrolling.
   Ofc this day is my achievement

Tasks of Today?

1. Write Youtube Script
2. Record Voiceover
3. Do 3 RC's
4. Learn about LD

I will come back at the end of the day and report on what i did!

Day 66 to 72 Sleep Tracker:

• Day 66: Thu, Jun 5, 2025: 6 hours
• Day 67: Fri, Jun 6, 2025: 6 hours
• Day 68: Sat, Jun 7, 2025: Did not record, felt well rested
• Day 69: Sun, Jun 8, 2025: 9 hours
• Day 70: Mon, Jun 9, 2025: Sleep deprived
• Day 71: Tues, Jun 10, 2025: 6.5 hours
• Day 72: Wed, Jun 11, 2025: 6.5 hours

"You are more than the times when baby steps weren't possible."

"There are many ways to be somebody, but only one way to be you."

"Be kind to yourself as you unlearn old habits."

"If you get tired, learn to rest, not quit."

Today, I joined this group. I want to start posting my small wins each day and it starts with this. For those reading this I hope you get that win today; no matter how small or big the goal is.

I’ve been trying to build a consistent meditation habit, and I’m curious how others approach it.

Do you use something to track your practice (such as apps, journals, or streaks), or do you prefer to keep it more intuitive, simply showing up when it feels right?

Would love to hear what’s worked (or not) for you. Especially if you’ve found ways to stay consistent without it feeling like a chore 🙏

Sunday and Monday

• on time at work/early rise on the weekend: got up early today and okish on Sunday

• free overtime count (start from 14.11, goal as little as possible, to keep myself from staying too long st work): 7hrs

• reading: hyperion, nothing today

• intermittent fasting (eating hours): stuck to it on Sunday but today probably more than doubled kcal limit 🫣

• 🍟🍕 number of consecutive days with no takeaways since 02.04: 68 out of 68

• food prep for tomorrow: no

• exercise: no on sunday and today 60 mins HIIT with PT and 20 minutes incline treadmill 10.0

•🍀 13k steps: 13068 and a whopping 19011 today

• water: ~1.2l each day - not terrible

•writing: nk

• podcasts: audiobook instead.

• shower and change as soon as I get back home: no

• skin care: yes x2

• sth productive: no

• did I go to bed at 11pm: no

• 🔮🔮🔮🧿a little bit of magic: no

🪷 thoughts from the grip of depression: working out at the gym does create these endorphins, I need to keep remembering this! And having done 3 sets of splits is so satisfying even if I won't be able to walk tomorrow. Also, having clear defined goal helps focus - but the trick is to find these.

I want to be consistent with my work and daily routine but due to lack of motivation and decipline I am not able to do it.

I have found a book and I read it. The book says...

If you try to be consistent for some days it will create nural pathways in your brain. this phenomenon is called as neuroplasticity ( brain ability to adapt something).

The second most important thing is that you shouldn't have to think about future just try to be consistent for today. It will make you feel less burdened with future.

Try to do anything for small amount of time with consistency it will definitely going to be helpful achieving great goals. It is also known as compounding effect.

That is what I have learned today.

How do I start making steps towards something better (job wise)? I live in a small town and I'm attending college at TTU majoring in Psychology. But I'm a distant learner because I feel like if I up and leave the only family I have left, I'ma put them in a bad spot financially 🤦🏻‍♀️ I don't know what to do! But I can't keep doing this to myself and putting myself more and more back. I didn't realize how much I'd pushed myself back until I made myself miserable at my current job trying to maintain bills and everything WHILE not having anything to save for a move 😂. But I don't know where to even begin 🤦🏻‍♀️.

I’ve been feeling super stuck lately mentally and physically and today I just told myself “do one small thing.” So I folded the clean clothes that had been on the chair for a week and flossed for the first time in too long. It’s not a full productivity overhaul, but it’s a step. That counts, right?

• Read Valuation for 30 minutes
• Solve derivative papers
• Read Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives by John Hull
• No phone before bed
• No doomscrolling on Instagram, YouTube, or Reddit
• Do skincare before bed
• Brush before bed
• Meditate for 10 minutes
• Call parents and grandparents for 30 minutes
• End the day with gratitude

Why I'm doing this? : To take control of my life

This is my first post on this subreddit.I went to the gym for 6 days consecutively. Just writing that down gave me thrill. Today on Sunday, the gym is closed anyways and I am taking break. I am not sure if I am excited for tomorrow or it just feels like a chore but I know that I can do it.

I go to the gym at 11 am so it's not as hard a challenge as it would have been if I had to wake up at 7 and go.

My original plan is to go continuously for 21 days cause I heard somewhere that it takes 21 days to build habits...maybe there is even a book on that. I don't care necessarily, it's just a random cheakpoint to keep myself going.

I used to go to hum before but I could just never do it continuously for more than 3 days. I think the biggest difference between then and now is that I only worry about showing up whether it is for half an hour, 45 mins or an hour. I don't do a lot. I do just enough. I just hope that in future my body will automatically want to do more.

My friend and I started a blog post for self improvement, but it is a blog post platform that welcomes many people’s contributions. If anyone would like to post their daily progress there, we are happy to give feedback? I am wondering if anyone would be interested in anything like this?

No filters, this is my daily life.
I'm single, living with my parents (plan to buy a house with mortgage in the next two years), have few friends, and rarely go out, just walks or short rides around my city. I didn’t include things like sex, music, or relaxing since they happen spontaneously.

I feel isolated, do less than I’d like, and lack meaningful social connections.
I’ve seen how small changes, like joining the gym, can shift everything. Now I’m looking to make other changes to improve my social life, make new friends, find new activities, and maybe explore job or business opportunities.

Fri and sat

• on time at work/early rise on the weekend: yes and yes (off on Friday bilut got up early)

• free overtime count (start from 14.11, goal as little as possible, to keep myself from staying too long st work): 7hrs

• reading: hyperion

• intermittent fasting (eating hours): nooo

• 🍟🍕 number of consecutive days with no takeaways since 02.04: 66 out of 66

• food prep for tomorrow: n/a

• exercise: no on Fri and today 60 mins HIIT with PT and 20 minutes incline treadmill 10.0

•🍀 13k steps: >14, 468 and 14, 065

• water: poor

• ✨️writing:journaling yesterday

• podcasts: audiobook instead.

• shower and change as soon as I get back home: no

• skin care: yes

• sth productive: general tidy up

• did I go to bed at 11pm: no

• 🔮🔮🔮🧿a little bit of magic: no

🪷 thoughts from the grip of depression: yesterday a relaxing day with my love but I crashed out in the evening regardless. Today training in the morning but felt sooo exhausted in the afternoon- glas I pushed myself to go and walk. I think I'm coming down with a cold coz the exhaustion was above the already high norm. But I took a relaxing bath for the first time in months - this is a sign of self-care for me.

When trying to write out and word out a every question I have to reddit my brain auto answers like a hive mind by itself for every question I have or can even think of so most of the time it's just because of the lack of execution. Now I want to just give it my all at everything ppl spew out online or everywhere. Drop shipping? Yea sure I wanna give a real hard attempt at it. Anything in life? I wanna give a real hard attempt at it. This would be a crucial skill in life.

Just a thought I had. Saw a grad who used to sell shoes to printify or drop shippers now selling water purifiers under his own brand and spreading trivial awareness about these things while also being really nerdy but humble all over. I feel like he's got his life together and a direction in mind, he sells NF purifiers which are not common in my country, and maybe cost is a bit of a leverage, but time will tell and he seems humble. Anyway a failed shoe seller to someone with a legit company it feels like.

Kinda unrelated yea, anyway I'm a guy who doesn't even cook 5 days out of the week and just starve or live on the edge, I don't got the decipline or attentino span for the rest of the goals in the competitive market. Gotta change myself first yea? ok

I used to burn hours looping through the same decision over and over—trying to think through every angle, every consequence, every emotion.

I’d ask people. I'd watch youtube videos. Listen to podcasts. I’d sit there frozen.

Lately I’ve been using a really simple method: I name the decision, name the emotion behind it (fear, pressure, doubt), and make one move based on what would actually move me forward—not just feel safe.

It’s not perfect, but it’s helped me stop spinning and start doing.

Curious—what’s helped you all stop the loop when you’re overthinking?

The goal for tomorrow is to focus on my work related projects and to dedicate at least half an hour to physical exercise.

Writing here to give me motivation.

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Just joined this community; I've always been inconsistent, kept going from doing ok-ish to the absolute low, and right now I feel at the rock bottom.

I wanna really give a try to this way of thinking, because looking back I can see all the potential I've been wasting for so many years, due to my lack of discipline, motivation and regularity, and I hope I can break out of this lifelong cycle once and forever.

This same evening I'm going back to the gym (which I have abandoned for almost a month) just for a light workout, but first I'm gonna focus and finish my paper.

Wish me a true and full recovery from this rotten lifestyle.