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What you're doing is called mobilizing and it's a core skillset for cognitive behavior therapy when dealing with depression. Keep it up, I'm making my own list.

EDIT - Typo

EDIT EDIT - Sweet Christmas, this blew up. For those of you asking, here is book I got this from - https://www.amazon.com/Thoughts-Feelings-Harbinger-Self-Help-Workbook/dp/1608822087

If you want a little more information about mobilizing specifically as it relates to that book, click here.

I'm new to all this, honestly, but the idea is to categorize key life value's that are important to you. You then compare your life's current key value's and then make adjustments. For example, say OP said one of his key value's was "fitness or health" OP would write: "I feel like shit because I'm drinking, I'm not eating right and I'm over weight."

OP would then write out what they would do to fix it - go to the gym, eat better, and exercise. Then OP needs to do it and the thought of doing it (mobilizing) reduces the feelings of uselessness and all that bullshit associated with depression. Keep doing this until your existing key value's match the ones you wanted. It's not a be all end all and it's not a fix for professional help or medication to level your mood out. But if you're interested, please check out this book. Depression is chapter - 11, 2 ,3, 4, 12, 20, 15, 16, and 9 (in that order).

Good luck!

> Who's it from then?

Will Durant, in "The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World’s Greatest Philosophers".

> The trouble is that ARISTOTLE DID NOT SAY IT.
> After quoting a phrase from Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (“these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions”), Durant sums it up this way: “…we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit.”

http://blogs.umb.edu/quoteunquote/2012/05/08/its-a-much-more-effective-quotation-to-attribute-it-to-aristotle-rather-than-to-will-durant/

this is from the book Calculus made easy

There's an app done by the NHS in England called "couch to 5k" - where over nine weeks of training you go from essentially nothing to being able to do 5k in 30 minutes.

I just finished the program this week :)))) 5 k in 28 minutes

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Edit - been getting a few requests for the app link - this link ios to the UK's NHS app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phe.couchto5K - if anyone has one that'll work in the US version of Google Play just hit me up with the link and I'll append it to this post.

I just read Viktor E. Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, (the famous psychiatrist's account of how he survived three years of concentration camps during the Holocaust) and I have the book open to a passage that will help:

"There are three main avenues at which someone arrives at meaning in life. The first is by creating a work or doing a deed. The second is by experiencing something or encountering someone; in other words, meaning can be found not only in work but also love ... Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He can turn a personal tragedy into a triumph."

someone posted his linkedin and i took a look. i'm no hiring specialist, but what concerns me is he spent so much time working towards the chiropractice (haha new word)/medical and suddenly dropped off and worked for an ink sales company? i understand that things happen but there's usually some kind of transition phase. working at UPS and other odd jobs while schooling makes plenty of sense. but 3 bachelors' in sociology, life sciences, and... english? and then dr of chiropractic? i also get having a wide range of interests, but usually there's some kind of theme at least. strikes me that he's approx 40ish and still hasn't decided what he wants to do when he grows up. while that's not necessarily a bad thing, it might help him in the job-finding department if he stuck with one field.

also under 'chiro asst' he listed detox & superfoods. can he even get a superserious job with those words on his resume? =/

Its really ironic this post is in this sub, because this is feel good slacktivism. The Get motivated thing to do is reach out to someone and offer your hand, or, to go up to someone you trust and ask them for help. And if you don't have any, there's me or https://www.7cups.com/ or http://blahtherapy.com/, though I haven't listened over at the latter. There's also subreddits though i don't have experience with them.

Two books to read:

1.The Marshmallow Test by Walter Mischel

2.Mastermind by Maria Konnikova

Both helped me understand how, why, when, and where I felt this way, and ways to help.

Happy reading.

Edit: added links to the amazon page where you can find these books and names of the authors.

A few I've read that I think will help you tremendously on several different topics:

• The Millionaire Fastlane - MJ Demarco

• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey

• The Contrarians Guide To Leadership - Steven Sample

• Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki

• Accounting for Non-Accountants - Wayne Label

• The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan

• Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill

• 4 Hour Work Week - Tim Ferris

• Be Obsessed or Be Average - Grant Cardone

• $100 Startup

• Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

• Will It Fly - Pat Flynn

• The One Minute Manager - Spencer Johnson

• Bigger Leaner Stronger - Michael Matthews

• Sports Nutrition Guidebook - Nancy Clark

Hope this helps get you started! Books are fantastic because they are cheap for the value they add to your life. Plus they help you relax and refocus. Get as much perspective as you can. Find a mentor and ask for more book recommendations. Anyone worth taking advice from probably has quite a few books to suggest to you.

I literally just read Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, and that's how he quotes Nietzche, too - in a motivational, inspiring way. Using the exact quote from the OP.

Translations aren't always cut and dry, but I'm going to side with the famous Holocaust survivor and logotherapy founder over dancer7541 here. No offense; I just feel that he has more to teach me.

Here's (what I think is a) better visual and breakdown of this graphic. Based off of ‘Daily Rituals’ by Mason Currey, this breaks down not only sleeping habits but how their time was utilized.

Inaccurate quote from Major General James Mattis, actual quote is:

"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Mattis

There's the wiki, if you're interested, the guy has a ton of great quotes.

Yeah it's called Smoke Free. I've been reading the daily missions and writing down little notes for myself. It's really well done and helps a ton. Earning badges is fun too.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.portablepixels.smokefree

Wake Up at 5.30, and head right into the kitchen where I put some oats into the microwave, and simultaneously some coffee in a moka pot. While this prepares, go through emails on my phone.

After about 5-10 minutes, I eat my oats and drink coffee while I read something (non-fiction, reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius atm).

6.15-7.15- I hit the gym. By 8 i have slammed a protein shake and have had breakfast (typically PB sandwiches), and then begin work by 9. I do this Monday to Sunday.

Sadly, this is the only organized part of my day...

First, you work for change. Then, they make you a hero. Then they attribute inspirational quotes to you. ~ Albert Einstein

> Quote: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

> Describing the stages of a winning strategy of nonviolent activism. There is no record of Gandhi saying this. A close variant of the quotation first appears in a 1918 US trade union address by Nicholas Klein:

> > And, my friends, in this story you have a history of this entire movement. First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you. And that, is what is going to happen to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.

> Proceedings of the Third Biennial Convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (1918), p. 53

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi#Misattributed

I read Allen Carr’s Easy way to quit smoking 5 years ago and haven’t looked back. Do yourself a favor and read this book!! Allen Carr’s easy way to quit smoking I saved $20,000 in the last 5 years!!

If we're recommending books on the topic, I'll toss in The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. He talks about ignoring the forces that oppose your goal, and if you continue long enough and keep putting in the work you'll get a visit from what he calls the muse. Basically, spontaneous creative accomplishment, that seemingly comes from something other than yourself.

Just a heads up, the paperback version on the Amazon link doesn't appear to be the Hays translation. I ordered after seeing your post (thanks!) and used this link:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0812968255/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Might want to edit in smile. before your link as well so charity gets some $$$. :)

Charles Duhigs "The Power of Habit" explains how what you just said is exactly what can happen. The neural networks created by a bad habit or an addiction are never gone, it's just that the act of resisting the addiction creates new networks that in time becomes stronger and over power the old ones. And yet, if someone falls off the wagon, the brain can relight those old networks and the old habit returns even after years of resistance.

There's 0 chance he said that... What's your source for it?

edit: searching google books, the earliest citation I can find is 2002 in this book: https://books.google.com/books?id=zNdFW5LIBzgC&pg=PA16&dq=%22i+don%27t+measure+a+man%27s+success+by+how+high%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VXJLVfntJYegyQTczoDoBg&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22i%20don't%20measure%20a%20man's%20succe...

It's not sourced. Seems to have exploded from there. Seeing as how he died in 1945, it seems odd that nobody thought to make note of such a pithy quote until 60 years later.

Thanks for checking this out! If you like to read more of my thoughts on motivation and productivity, check out my book on using psychology to overcome procrastination.

I worked over two years (on and off) on this flowchart. It's a practical overview of wisdoms I read, heard or thought of. Some of the biggest influences were Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Terence McKenna, Alan Watts, introspection (own).
I'm glad it may help you too :)

Fun fact: methamphetamine is occasionally prescribed for weight loss.

Edit: For those doubting me:

https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-9124/desoxyn-oral/details

Kurt Vonnegut did not write this, although if memory serves, he said he wishes that he did.

The true author is Mary Schmich

http://www.openculture.com/2013/11/wear-sunscreen-the-story-behind-the-commencement-speech-that-kurt-vonnegut-never-wrote.html

There is a book, Bird by Bird that is excellent for people like us. There is a chapter "The First Shitty Draft" that I highly recommend you read. It changed the way I approached my creativity.

Its cause they're nicotine salts

You get the absorption of nic faster but also the duration of effect is shorter than a cigarette or regular freebase nic.

Get some mint or cinnamon chewing sticks like these. or go to a health food store to find them.

They're healthier then hard candies, freshen your breath, and good for your oral hygiene.

Helped me quit cigarettes and cut down on vaping

Thank you for checking it out! As a psychologist and an author, I've tried to help people become more productive (I even wrote a short book on how simple psychology can help in overcoming procrastination). In all cases, I really do believe that small steps lead to great things, but that path is not always clear for the person on that journey. However, the same possibility is there for everyone.

No problem guy. I don't mean to come across as short with you, I have the same issue myself! I'm horrendous for talking myself out of nearly everything before I even try it.

I'd recommend mindfulness meditation, the Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey and picking an athletic goal and sticking to it (marathon for me.) All these worked for me, but obviously you're different and your mileage may vary.

I tried lots of different shit that didn't work too. But I still tried it! I've just developed better habits and they no longer feel like work.

Good luck.

Self taught ... and oh boy did i read books lol.. tutorials...youtube..the whole lot... if ur going digital u can start with ctrl paint website... they have a whole free library to get u started ... as for books i just mentioned above "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards" its for beginners and i mean absolute beginners ... youtube also is filled with good tutorials just stay away from speed painting..these r very discouraging to beginners .. i wont recommend certain names.. coz there r millions and they all serve the same purpose.. but i prefer videos recently.. its more interactive and u can see the guy actually drawing.. i signed in 2008 in a website called drawing tutorials online ..the guy there is very good..Matt.. and u can also upload ur drawing every week and he will critique them for u.. for like 100$ a year.. its a very good deal.. there r many many of these websites like proko and ctrl paint and cgcookie .. i think they may help u more then books.. but that doesnt mean u shouldnt have a library in ur room.. every artist has to have one :)

It was by Richard Simpson. He discusses it for a while in this podcast:

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https://castbox.fm/episode/Ep-22%3A-Friendship-with-Richard-Simpson-id1412299-id143902543?country=us

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He has an awesome Scottish accent and he's pretty funny.

If these posts become a normal thing I'm done with this subreddit. Seriously, If you want to workout just plan a damn workout. If you don't know how, no big deal you're on the internet look up a workout plan from a site like this.

These aren't new apps, but they sure are helpful! Here's my 4 cents on this:

• YNAB is a great budgeting app and is free for students: https://www.youneedabudget.com/blog/post/ynab-is-now-free-for-college-students
• Any Pomodoro timer will do the trick
• Learn to use Google Apps like a pro - seriously, this will save you hours!
• Flux (https://justgetflux.com) to protect against eye strain

I don't have the words to describe how happy I currently am knowing I can call myself a non smoker.

The first 2 weeks were very tough. After 11 years of consuming this nasty product my body and mind were overwhelmed with it disappearance. I felt like a ghost in my own body just watching the world roll by. That passed however and I feel like a new person. I have more energy, I can breathe better, no more waking up a coughing a lung and I CAN SMELL THINGS!!!! The cravings unfortunately have not gone away but it's easier by the day.

To all of those who commented and messaged me about how I motivated them to stop as well, I hope you are staying strong. The best tip I can give is finding a new hobby. Keep your mind off the fact that you are not smoking, it really helps. My inbox is always open.

The app is called Smoke Free and can be found on both iOS and the Play Store.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.portablepixels.smokefree

Apple https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/smoke-free-quit-smoking-now/id577767592?mt=8

Thank you everyone from the bottom of my lungs ��

I know some people in the comments are saying they were using their Juul more after switching from cigarettes and found it did nothing more than increase their nicotine dependency. Taking hits in the middle of the night or whenever they could.

The reason for this is Juul & E-cigarette pods use nicotine salts. Salts typically have higher nicotine content and absorb faster into the body. So when you're taking a pull, it's more effective to satisfy your craving for a cigarette.

However it lacks the long duration effect so you feel the need to want to take another pull right after or not long after doing so.

Smoking is an oral fixation, it's why a lot of people who quit find themselves snacking or eating more.

My suggestion to help alleviate the need to take another hit of your Juul/pod/ecig, is to buy some chewing sticks/toothpicks.

Chewing sticks last longer then toothpicks, good for your oral hygiene, freshens your breath and come in mint or cinnamon to my knowledge. They're made with tea tree oil and I'm sure they have plain too.

Personally I suggest these. I found the cinnamon more alleviating to cravings with the taste and spice plus I'm a fan of cinnamon��‍♂️

You can get them from any health store, whole foods, or amazon. Not sure about the big box stores.

I vape myself so I'm no saint but after quitting cigarettes; Irealized how easy it was to just keep on puffing so i went back to using chewing sticks to not be tempted.

I used to work for a company that recycled used cooking oil. You set up a contract to buy the used oil at a certain price per gallon for a year or whatever (usually between 50¢ and 2$ depending on the market and the restaurant's level of oil usage).

They most likely buy the oil from a company like the one I worked for. We would heat it up really hot in a turbine and it became better fuel through science or something. Then sell to locals and other businesses who want to use the recycled oil.

I hope that helps.

Edit: sorry /u/decepere if I didn't really help answer your question. I misread it thinking you were asking if they maybe used their own oil and how much they produced. I apologize for the confusion.

Edit 2: also here is a little bit of the science

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_oil_refining

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Md_Mamunur_Roshid/publication/264936112_Production_of_Biodiesel_from_Waste_Vegetable_Oil/links/53f6cb190cf22be01c4517b7.pdf

Just hit 75 sold copies of my book on starting small online businesses. They're $0.99 so I get a sweet $0.35 per sale (I know, making big bucks here) but for a kid who grew up in Yugoslavia, the very notion that I can write books in English and have people be interested in them is something beyond awesome. This one, like the others, demanded a lot of effort - but I'm really glad I did it (even that one book which sold something like 6 copies in 12 months). Next goal is 100 copies!

So, push on with stuff, even if it occasionally seems dumb and pointless. Chances are it will be well worth it!

[on climbing a mountain to reach the top, rather than enjoying the climb:]

>He's here but he's not here. He rejects the here, is unhappy with it, wants to be farther up the trail but when he gets there will be just as unhappy because then it will be "here." What he's looking for, what he wants, is all around him, but he doesn't want that because it is ​all around him. Every step's an effort, both physically and spiritually, because he imagines his goal to be external and distant.

• Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

If this strikes a chord, I recommend:

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

by Charles Duhigg

Link

Check out a book called Models by Mark Manson. Its a seduction book but hear me out. Though the book is about dating he nails the philosophy of vulnerability and what that means. If you actually wanted to embrace that mantra you could definitely see models as a how to guide for vulnerability.

Stuck to my plan of waking up every morning at 5:30am and working on my side projects. I recently finished my first app. Check it out! Any feedback would be appreciated.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dolphindreamzmobile.endless.funny.memes

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I have been waking up early for the past 2 months and it has drastically changed my life. I now have 4 hours everyday before work to do whatever I want! If you haven't started waking up in the early, I highly recommend it. I have never felt more productive in my life!

[story] Love GetMotivated. First-time poster here! I wrote 3 published meditation books in one year. I did it by writing 1000 words a day. I have also started doing triathlon at the age of 40. I have my third triathlon on Saturday. The meditation and the athletics have really improved my mood. I have also been reading a lot of books on positive psychology, most recently, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mood and Your Life. My new goal is to get my most recent book on the NY Times bestseller list. I plan to devote 40 hours a week to promoting my books and continuing with my writing. I have a really good day job but would like to be a FT writer and also travel and do outdoor activities. If any of you out there are struggling with depression, I would recommend serious physical activity and meditation. Also go see a therapist if you need to. Anything to get you started in the right direction. Things really can improve, and sooner than you think!

If our attention span will allow, read Duhigg's The Power of Habit. You have a bad habit and need to create a study habit. What are the cues that make you crave social contact? Figure that out and replace the routine of FB with something else that gives you a more constructive outcome.

Your whole life depends on this. You will either get control of your habits and succeed in school, or you will be a victim of marketing, your boss, your significant other, etc. Don't be the bitch in your relationship with the world.

I try to read at least one motivational book per month and distilling past few years, here are the books I would recommend in no particular order:

• As a Man Thinketh - James Allen
• The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus into Your Life - Thomas M. Sterner
• Man's Search for Meaning - Frankl, Viktor E.
• No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline - Tracy, Brian
• Meditations - Aurelius, Marcus
• The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success - Hardy, Darren
• The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment - Tolle, Eckhart
• The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive - Brendon Burchard

If anyone is interested in details on anything (i.e. you are looking book that helps you develop leadership), reply and I'll write follow up with short summary on books I think can help on certain topic.

EDIT: Thanks for PMs on the books... it helped me come up with definite recommendations. Basically, if I must pick one book, I would do so depending on person who I am recommending it to:

• In general, I recommend going with As a Man Thinketh.
• If you are able to empathize strongly, "Man's search for meaning" would be better.
• If you want simple, practical steps go with "The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus into Your Life".
• If you can reserve judgment and don't mind "sales channel" approach, No Excuses! is pretty good book.
• If you are really into philosophy and history - Meditations.

Finally, it's not so much about reading; you should be re-reading these books regularly. Especially Meditations shows that - this book was written >1800 years ago and the fact that it formulates most of life lessons so clearly really strikes you.

Don't wanna rain on anyone's parade but these are not Musashi's words. This is a quote from the book "Musashi's Book of Five Rings: The Definitive Interpretation of Miyamoto Musashi's classic book of strategy" by Stephen F. Kaufman.

It's Mr. Kaufman's interpretation of what he thinks Musashi thought.

Source: Google Books, p. 104, last sentence, read on

Nope. Boomers still in control. From about 1980 to probably 2025. Those fuckers aren’t going to give up their power to bleed this country dry until they’re in the ground. And they have the numbers to do it.

https://www.amazon.com/Generation-Sociopaths-Boomers-Betrayed-America/dp/0316395781

Read this book about the boomers by a boomer. I couldn’t get through more than 2 pages at a time without wanting to go all dexter on the entire generation.

Zuko's hilarious but interestingly enough if you look at the basic principles of mindfulness and therapies based on mindfulness there's a similar idea ie. to learn to defuse from your thinking self and more often be in tune with your observing self.

So you accept your thoughts, urges, feelings as they are but not fuse with them and instead move in the direction of the things you value. There's a girl you're interested in, you feel anxiety at asking her out, you don't struggle with that anxiety or let it define you, you accept it but ask her out because it aligns with your values of love, connection, intimacy. The thinking self would run rampant, "I should ask her out. But she'll reject me. What if they laugh at me. I'm not gonna do it, she'll think I'm creepy. Okay here she comes. Damn, I missed my chance. I can't believe I missed my chance. I'll never be in a relationship. I'm going to be lonely forever. I am unlovable. I am a useless piece of human garbage."

As for your other self, your observing self, you get more into tune with this through focusing on the here and now and defusing from the thoughts of your thinking self. You've taken thousands of showers in your lifetime and while you have the option to think about how behind you are in school during your shower, you also have the option to revel in it for what it is and just enjoy the experience.

For anyone more interested in Uncle Zuko's wisdom, https://www.amazon.ca/Happiness-Trap-Struggling-Start-Living/dp/1590305841

I miss Avatar. Are they ever gonna do another series or was Korra the last one?

Finished that book a few days ago and it's exactly what I thought of when reading this thread. Now I'm reading The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. Lots of overlapping themes, I highly recommend it if you liked Irresistible.

Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill

Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude - Hill and Stone

The Four Agreements - Ruiz

I love listening to self help audiobooks while driving. Les Brown and Tony Robbins are both great orators with a lot of great points. Check your local library. Like he mentioned, read anything and everything. The goal is to start finding value in everything you do.

Check out the book Feeling Good by David D. Burns. It's a pretty useful in identifying ways in which we can change the way we feel by changing our thoughts, among other things. It's helping me work out my anxiety/tendency to be depressed, ect.

https://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Good-New-Mood-Therapy/dp/0380810336

There's actually a book called The Power of Habit that explains the science behind habits. It's very, very interesting. Pretty much your brain has a trigger and a reward system. And the habit is the in between. So it teaches that if you can re-wire that, you can create new habits. Highly recommend it.

On the radio last weekend I heard an interview with Clayton M. Christensen, author of The Innovator's Dilemma. While a lot of the interview was about innovation and what the book was about, he did mention how the same ideas applied to life.

He said that for most people investing in their work gives a quick payoff - an instant feeling of achievement when a project is completed, a sale closed, etc. On the other hand, people's personal life do not give a quick payoff. For example, he mentioned it will take 20 years before you know if the child you raised is a decent person or not. So he says there is an incentive for people to invest their time into their work instead of their personal lives - being always connected, working longer hours than necessary, etc. In the end, however, personal life will always be more important than work for long-term happiness.

This really struck a chord with me, I could see how I was doing exactly what he said. Now I'm aware of it I'm starting to try to re-balance my life.

I seem to be one of the few female voices here. Therefore I will not be the voice that knocks her down while praising you towards divorce and a shiny throne.

Speaking as a wife, she did not get to her current place all by herself. While I am not scapegoating the actions of an adult, please take stock of your part. Every thing you have said leads me to believe she is no longer your biggest fan, more so she seems afraid. Hence she is becoming secretive and grasping at any straw that will pay attention to her. Any support system that she has, regardless if you approve or not, is where she is. I would not have moved either.

Talk to her. Talk to her like you did all those years ago. Take everything else out of it- talk just you and her. People change over time. People grow apart, it happens. Folks grow apart when communication breaks down. Help her help herself in picking up the pieces of her reality. You owe it to your child's mother. Your wife.

Get into couples therapy. She needs AA and you need your group. Spend time together as a functional family doing something random- visit to a park, local lake.

Book recommendation- Sounds silly and unorthodox but fantastic. I am weeks away from the big 40. My kids love this book. It is a permanent fixture on my nightstand. For perks get some colored pencils to color the pages. Jonny Sun's Everyone's Aliebn When UR Too.

I think that the authors of The Power of Habit and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People were probably pretty mature, by most accounts.

We are all subject to living by our habits. However, being proactive to develop those habits to our advantage is what it's all about.

Goku shows mercy to his enemies, that is absolutely true, but Toriyama in his interviews has explicitly said that Goku isn't strong just because he's a nice guy.
> At any rate, I wanted him to have the sense of being that rare guy who seeks only “to become stronger than before”, so much so that it feels like “there’s no one as pure as this person”. And while he does end up saving everyone as a result of that, he himself at least has a very pure sincerity about “wanting to become stronger”. What I wanted to depict the most was the sense that he might not be a good guy at all, although he does do good things as a result

http://www.kanzenshuu.com/translations/akira-toriyama-masako-nozawa-special-talk/

Vegeta's brother Tarble and Goku's parents had compassion as well; they weren't especially powerful

Also, what i was addressing was this sentence Vegeta said in his speech:
>But then I found myself with a family of my own, and my power... didn't increase at all

http://genius.com/Akira-toriyama-vegeta-admits-his-respect-for-goku-annotated

I agree with many elements of the article, especially about the causes of procrastination being emotional, not organizational.

However, as a psychologist who wrote a book on overcoming procrastination, I believe that the article once again diverts into organizational means of stopping this behavior. At the same time, it provides general advice like to sleep well which is fine, but usually, these don't help that much people who are heavy procrastinators.

For me, the issue here is that once again, the solution is sought out among the symptoms of procrastination, not its causes. No one starts procrastinating for no reason and this behavior and emotions that follow it quickly become embedded in a person. This might be anxiety, but it might be a range of other things as well. Yet, living is dealing with parts of us we find bothersome, burdensome or something worse, but which we can't just shut off.

This is why I believe that resolving procrastination takes place through a process of emotional awareness and acceptance. It can help a person to slowly grow out of this behavior. As this takes place, the person gradually wastes less time and the behavior is less and less intensive.

The process is not fast or effortless, but I believe its results are both sustainable and long-lasting.

You need CBT (Cognitive behaviour therapy) and maybe look into CBD oil. I highly recommend a book titled D.A.R.E by Barry Mcdonaugh. Helped me so much and its cheap. Book Link if you're interested.

$120 is... a lot. I'm not saying it isn't worth it, but that is a hell of a lot to pay for a resume.

I've built all of my resumes, and have always received compliments with them when interviewing with employers.

My biggest advice to people is always to ditch Microsoft Word. Word is a horrible program for making anything that requires decent formatting. I vastly prefer LaTeX for professional documents, and always use PDF so I can ensure my resume looks the way it is intended to.

I'm also lucky enough to have several friends who hire for their respective companies. I normally spend about half a week agonizing over the tiny details on my resume and then send it to them to check.

Hey all, thanks for reading! I'm a psychologist and a author who works on productivity - here's my book on how being in the present moment can help you overcome procrastination https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CXBRSVM

Thanks once more!

I absorb more through audiobooks, as I find much more time to audiobook than to read. That said, I often refer to the text after listening, because I like to revisit my written notes.

If you have artistic inclinations, "The War of Art" by Pressfield is an incredible investment.

"The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck" by Manson is another amazing investment in your perspective.

Audible and Headspace are two subscriptions I will never regret. Use them as much as you can, and you'll be making immense investments in your emotional health with returns in happiness and fulfillment.

The Stan Lee one is wrong...he was in his early twenties when he started writing comics.

Quote from Wikipedia: He graduated from writing filler to actual comics with a backup feature, "'Headline' Hunter, Foreign Correspondent", two issues later. Lee's first superhero co-creation was theDestroyer, in Mystic Comics #6 (August 1941). Other characters he created during this period fans and historians call the Golden Age of comics include Jack Frost, debuting in USA Comics #1 (August 1941), and Father Time, debuting in Captain America Comics #6 (August 1941

He was 19 in 1941

EDIT: Seriously? Why would someone falsify that information? Stan Lee was the editor of Marvel (Timely/Atlas) when he was 19.

http://www.britannica.com/biography/Stan-Lee

Either way he shouldn't be on this list, Stan Lee did squat, it was Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and the other artists that actually created these characters.

Thank you so much for upvoting this! I'm a psychologist, counselor, and author I made this poster because I really believe that mindfulness and acceptance of past experience are essential for the ability to grow and overcome our personal issues. These issues almost always include the perceived mistakes of the past, which are also a valuable learning opportunity.

This is especially true for things like procrastination. Here, emotional self-awareness is crucial and in my book on how psychology can help in overcoming this issue, I use it as the first step. A very similar mechanism applies to the notion of past mistakes and the choice every one of us has - use them as weights that pull us down or balloons that can help us rise.

Hope we all find a way to do the second thing!

Please try reading the book 'You Are Not Your Brain' by Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz, psychiatrist and an expert in neuroplasticity of UCLA School of Medicine.

https://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Not-Your-Brain/dp/1583334831

Man's Search for Meaning is easily one of the best books ever written. I read the first half at least once a year. It's broken into two parts, the first half is the story of his experience and the second is on his style of psychology logotherapy.

Muslims and Mormons respectively. Muhammad had a 12 year old wife, and Adam Smith found a New New Testament on gold plates in America which no one else was allowed to look at and interpreted them using some stones in a hat.

Edit Fun fact Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations during his brief tenure as a hitman contracted to kill Angelina Jolie.

If you're interested, check out these two books, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, and The way of Zen by Allen Watts. They have been a tremendous help to me and I have grown as a person since first reading them. Good luck to you and I hope you enjoy a life full of learning and personal growth. There is a quote that goes something like "Don't pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to live a difficult one"(something like that :P)

F all that. You need to read "The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield. It's about 100 pages long and will give Napolean Hill a good kick in the crotch.

Here's an excerpt:

>Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance. > >Have you ever brought home a treadmill and let it gather dust in the attic? Ever resolved on a diet, a course of yoga, a meditation practice? Have you ever felt a call to embark upon a spiritual practice, dedicate yourself to a humanitarian calling, commit your life to the service of others? Have you ever wanted to be a mother, a doctor, an advocate for the weak and helpless; to run for office, crusade for the planet, campaign for world peace or to preserve the environment? Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.

Do yourself a favor. Buy this book. Read it. And give your internal resistance the thrashing it deserves.

Good luck!

Have you tried Airbnb? Lots of rooms for cheap! Alberta Arts District is a great area and pretty central - https://www.airbnb.com/s/Portland?source=mob&checkin=06%2F25%2F2016&checkout=06%2F26%2F2016&room_types%5B%5D=Private+room&s_tag=FKb-hyJQ

You've got to check out Forest Park! Largest urban forest in the country: http://www.forestparkconservancy.org/forest-park/

I was/am in your exact path. I was always told that my ambition and passion for life was infectious and I took pride in exceeding expectations (both my own and others).

But something happened.... not some monumental life event - just small incremental shifts over time until I woke up one day exactly as you describe.

Humans are extremely adaptable - it's one of our greatest strengths but can also be a debilitating weakness.

I decided last week that I wasn't going to accept my 'new normal' as my 'forever normal'.

What works for me is finding 'dead time' during my day and replace it with something that motivates... whether that's reading a motivational book, listening to inspirational YouTube videos, going for a walk, or exercising.... whatever your 'it' is, find it.

For me - I'm re-reading Dale Carnegie's 'How To Win Friends and Influence People'. I read it probably once a year and it always seems to give me a boost.

Like I said - if this was last Friday, this could have been my post word for word... my adaptive human nature wants me to revert back to sulking and bad habits.... but I choose to be uncomfortable dammit.

I'm going to PM you in a few days to see how your doing... I'll be your accountability, if you'll be mine.... we got this.

This was from his Stanford speech, which in my opinion is littered with contradictions and poor advice. Such as follow your passion, the money will follow.

Call Newport wrote a book which I'd titled "So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why skills trump passion in the quest for work"

It's an extremely poignant book, especially if you're lost in life and don't know what to do for a job.

For those of you wondering how to do this:

Go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc and edit the hosts file with Notepad or Notepad ++

Anywhere under the typical example 127.0.0.1 localhost add the sites that you would like to block in the following way

127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com

and so on. Save, make sure it is not saved as a .txt file. Move the drop down to All Files and save and you're good to go. If you're using Windows Vista or 7 you will need to do this with admin privileges.

Or to make it simple, if you're using Firefox use Leechblock, if you're using Chrome use StayFocusd, If you're using Safari or Opera I'm not sure. And if you're using IE you're a filthy person.

When Aurelius or any of the ancient philosophers discuss work, in my opinion they aren't talking about your 9-5 jobs. They talk about work in the sense that Steven Pressfield does in The War of Art - work is your personal calling that elevates your spirit and engages your mind creatively. It's what you want to do with your life, your "calling". It could be drawing, writing, building something, anything really. But when we try to do the thing, we feel resistance or we procrastinate and we don't do it. We need to sit down and do our work, or in this case get out of bed and beat resistance. This, in my opinion, is what Marcus is talking about.

For more on this, read The War of Art. Awesome book.

If you like this, you should read Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning. It's about his experiences during the Holocaust in a concentration camp and how that helped him develop a psychological approach called logotherapy.

Start a garden or build a greenhouse. Read Slaughterhouse Five. Install a windmill or solar panel. Read Silence of the Lambs. Learn how to fly fish (an endless rabbit hole). Join a boxing gym, and a book club. Read Fight Club. Build a birdhouse. Take saxophone lessons. Build a car and get into drifting competitions. Read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Read Brave New World. Read The Dog Stars. Take pilot lessons (even if it's just to commercially fly drones). Become an amateur boxer and compete in at least one sanctioned match. Build a night stand with a hidden compartment. Play a sax gig at a local bar. Read Post Office. Read The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Go to a poetry reading. Get involved with Big Brothers Big Sisters. Do anything selfless.

If anyone here struggles in changing their habits like I have, I highly recommend The Power of Habit by Charle's Duhigg. It talks about why people develop bad habits, why they struggle changing them, and general ideas on how to how change your own.

i didnt go to any art classes sadly .. but the first book i started with ... the first EVER.. is Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards and i still remember drawing that guy from that book.. i actually practiced 8 hours a day on that book...and i finished it in 10 days... i do recommend it for someone who just started... but then u have to let its teaching go if u want to be a concept artist..coz she teach u how to copy ..not how to invent..but as a starting point its a must ...

Thanks! Did all of the pen tooling in Illustrator and the half-toning and texturing in Photoshop.

Basically created a separate PSD that included all of the shading, converted it to a bitmap halftone texture (via this technique), then brought that into the original PSD as a smart object and tooled around with layer styles and color.

I suck at explaining things, but hope this helps!

Yes, it's on Android and iOS. I use it on my desktop though. They also changed the name from HabitRPG to Habitica. Link: https://habitica.com/static/home

It's basically a way of listing your goals, and then leveling up/rewarding yourself when you meet those goals. Very nifty, and you can have friends and join guilds and fight through quests together by taking care of your chores.

Let me introduce you to a little something called LeechBlock

I used to have the same problem that guy was describing, I used leechblock for about a month and it made a huge difference. I became much more conscious of the time I spent on non productive tasks. All I did was set a time limit of 60 minutes a day on reddit, HN, google news and facebook.

I was so productive that I started and completed a whole game in a small timeframe. So put a leash on that internet addiction. It works.

The Headspace app is pretty awesome. Walks you through it, just 10 min a day. Changed my life.

Instead of being driven by caffeine and angst, I feel way more in control since I've started meditation.

It looks quite similar to Montserrat, the capital G in particular. The leg of the R is curved on this, unlike in Montserrat https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Montserrat

Lots of similar fonts here, similar to the popular Brandon Grotesque: http://www.identifont.com/find?similar=brandon+grotesque&q=Go

Very nice quote. That illustration is fantastic as well, it reminds me of "Drawing Hands" by M.C. Escher

There's no reason to quit when browser extensions like StayFocusd will moderate your time on websites like Reddit for you.

have you ever read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey? at the risk of sounding like a book will solve all your problems, please pick it up and read it at your own pace. it's actually the opposite of a self-help book in that most self-help books don't address the root of our most fundamental problems. I hope your circumstances get better. please give the book a try.

I like to use Trello to structure my tasks. I keep a tab open for each month's "Done-tasks", and one for my Todos.

This way it's easy to look back on achievements, and easy to keep track of, and prioritize what I want to do next.

Trello is usually used as a project management tool for software projects, but I found it translated quite easy to "life management" :)

I'm living on a little less then that. Here's my budget:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqPkMD8M6GLadGcxZHl6WFNGOS1GTWxuMC1rdHNGRkE

Warning: I live in a 145 square foot apartment in downtown China Town of Seattle.

> It's "transgender people"

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/transgender

transgender: adjective, Also, transgendered

Just, shut, up.

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> Edit2: let me spell it out for you. The implication is that trans people are just "penguins in giraffe suits", i.e. the classic "man in a woman's dress". It's is transphobia at its most basic level and completely inappropriate for a sub that is supposed to motivate people. It's not supposed to be motivational at other people's expense.

Let me spell something out for you:

You. Are. Not. The. Center. Of. Attention. Just. Because. You. Are. Transsexual.

Not every post is about you. Not every post is about your issues. Nobody here even knew you existed until you commented. OP was not talking to you. OP's pic is not talking about transsexuals. OP's pic is just a simple comic telling us to be the best version of ourselves. There's nothing more to read into it than that. There is no subtext. There is no reading between the lines. It is exactly what it is and no more.

You are here trying to force it to be about something that it is not. You are here projecting your own issues on top of a simple innocent little comic. You are here to stir up your SJW shit and go on the offensive calling people transphobes. You seriously need to just shut up and quit forcing every topic to be about you and your issues.

There was a similar post on reddit a while ago and someone collected all the tips into this shared google document.

On the topic of goal-setting, for daily tasks and productivity I recommend this product called The Emergent Task Planner. I order it on Amazon but there's a free version online too if you want to print it out yourself.

For big goals and long-term planning I always have a really fine quality leather-bound journal (my dream journal) that I use to plan and track big things like housing, vacations, lifestyle changes, etc.

Thinking big and breaking it into smaller bite-sized chunks is the only way I can keep myself focused long enough to get anything done!

According to FakeBuddha.com the actual quote is: “Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”

The quote above is from Viktor Frankhl's excellent book "Man's Search for Meaning". It's a great quote though.

In his book "On Writing", he described how he would nail every rejection letter he ever received from publishers on his bedroom wall to motivate himself. The weight of the rejection slips got so heavy that he started using a spike instead of a nail.

What nobody tells you is that no matter if you have someone, you are always alone anyway.

We are all alone. Even us married folks with families - after a few years, it is just you in your own mind with your own thoughts.

Only you understand you. And sometimes even you don't understand yourself.

We are all walking alone.

We will all die alone. Even if you are surrounded by people who love you - it is YOU who is dying. And that is a singularly personal experience and no one can accompany you.

Even when you are doing things with someone you love - you are alone in the experience.

People who do not realize this - expect being with someone to help them be happy - are looking for happiness in a place where it cannot be found.

It cannot be found in the embodiment of another person. It can only be found in our own mind.

If you feel any different alone than you do in a relationship - then you have still not found peace and happiness. Once you find it, you realize that other people can neither add to or take away from your happiness.

Victor Frankl learned this in the Nazi camps. His book "Man's Search for Meaning" is a testament.

No one else can add to or take away from your happiness or enjoyment of life. Joy and suffering are not found in the world - they are found in the mind.

Here I sit - I love my wife - I love my child - and yet I am alone.

And in my loneliness, I am content. Because alone is all we will ever be.

Here's my favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqpQzT1Kbuk

My favorite book on writing is Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott. She talks about a four-square-inch assignment. On her writing desk, she keeps an empty 2"x2" picture frame. No matter what, she has to fill that picture frame with writing every day. Once she's filled the frame with words on her computer, she has the right to stop. But not till then.

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I used to think the same thing, and then I found out that Robert Downey Jr met Musk shortly before filming Iron Man and has stated that he based parts of the character on him.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/true-story-elon-musk-robert-downey-jr-tony-stark-ashlee-vance

The best advice I ever got:

TAKE IT SLOW

Gradual changes are the only ones that last. Having a super strict diet, workouts, and abstaining entirely right off the bat is why you relapsed.

Plus, relapses are normal.

Psychology Today: Why Relapse Is Not A Sign Of Failure

All or Nothing thinking is another trap, which leads to what you described above.

Instead of, "I messed up my diet by eating X so I'll start over tomorrow/whenever" say to yourself "I'm going to do well for the rest of today to make up for it." Every little bit helps.

Mindfulness Meditation has been proven to improve mental health, assist in changing behavior, and regenerates grey matter in the brain. It helped me be okay with being present in the moment. Here's a website that offers guided meditation for beginners in 10 minutes a day.

Remember, you are a human BECOMING. Every step in the right direction, every good decision, means you are becoming the type of person who makes good decisions.

Each time you make the better choice is a victory in and of itself.

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I've never even heard of those authored although I have heard of Dale's books. I've only been doing this a few months, so far I've read a book by the Dalai Lama and archbishop Tutu about happiness, a book by a Japanese women called the Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up, a book by a holocaust survivor who was a doctor of psychology called Man's Search for Meaning, and I'm currently on a book called Emotional Intelligence.

I feel like I can kind of tell where my mental/emotional deficiencies are and Im trying to lay the groundwork on how to build myself up.

Each and every moment is a chance for you to start towards that journey you know you want to take. I know exactly how you feel brother. I would like to suggest a book to you called The War of Art by Stephen Pressfield; reading it completely turned my life around. It wasn't easy to change and it still isn't, but that book gave me the courage to at least attempt at being the person I really do want to be. Best of luck! I'm rooting for you.

Two of my all time favorites are Rich Dad, Poor Dad and The 4 Hour Work Week. Below are my new favorites, all worth reading!

Happiness - The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz - The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer - Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Stephen Mitchell

Wealth - The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes - Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss

General - The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant

I completely relate to your words, my friend, as I'm reading The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle, and I think the essence of his teaching is just this!

I feel that, sometimes, we're so deep inside of our head, that we think we're the only people going trough certain situation, going through difficulties, the only ones who got rejected, etc, and that can't be more false, but we're alive, and as long as we're alive, we can always do something :)

In the book "Bird by Bird" by Anne Lamont, she has a chapter called "First Shitty Draft". It explains why getting started - even if the results are shite - is a critical step.

This drawing sums that up nicely.