Many of us struggle with consistency in our lives, outside of the parts forced on us by obligation, such as work. Self improvement is never easy, but if we focus on small, consistent goals, we can make it.
I personally never really had many healthy habits, some more fundamental than others. I am going to start with a few simple ones, because I know from experience that trying to fix everything at once leads to burnout.
>Dental HygieneSimple as it sounds. Brushing and using mouthwash in the morning and evening, and additionally flossing at night. This sounds simple, and that's because it is. Yet I never did it consistently - there have been long stretches where I haven't.
>Reading 10 pages of a (non comic) book.I spend hours and hours on my computer and phone a day, and it will be difficult to cut that down. But I also recently got an e reader, and I don't read a lot. Even on that device I tend to just read a bunch of manga, and manga's good and all, but I know that consistently reading more traditional books will help me in the long run.
>Listen to a new song a dayThis is something that may seem weird, but I don't listen to music much. This comes naturally to many people but I always just spent my time watching youtube videos or doing other actions. I'm no good when people ask me if I know x or y song. Hopefully I can change that. At some point I'd like to progress this from "song" to "album".
>Drink tea/coffeeI am fortunate to have never particularly enjoyed soda, since i really don't like those carbon dioxide burps. But that means I tend to just drink a bunch of water, and there's nothing wrong with water, but I feel like tea could do me a lot of good for relaxing my nerves.
>Talk to someone new in a conversation I initiateThis is the hardest one by far. I really, really hate doing this, but I am also sick of being a wallflower at parties unless I know someone and I tend to get unhealthy attached to people in my life due to my few consistent connections. This even extends to talking on the phone, everything feels so much harder when you can't just backspace and rethink things like on a instant messenger. It doesn't matter how brief the interaction
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