Including the positive impact after removing unwanted habits or hobbies too
As other people said, walks are great. Good way to decompress after work.
I also do yoga twice a week. Helped a lot with my back, and keeps my flexibility at a reasonable level.
Going for a walk is generally a good thing.
Team Sports are pretty good for a social life. As in casual leagues. Just daydrinking with extra steps.
Leisure walk every day. 30 minutes is enough.
Don’t smoke, don’t drink alcohol.
Drink a lot of water.
Regular sleep schedule. Sleep hygiene.
Eat healthy.
Appreciative social contacts.
No matter how much your brain tells you that it’s go time… You need to take 10 minutes a day to stare at the ceiling, have a bath, or do nothing and turn that fucker off.
Knitting, reading, gardening, at least one walk every day.
In my last job which was WFH I would go for a bike ride in my lunch break. Now I cycle to work so that also works for regular exercise.
Gardening, can get all the rosemary and sage I want for free and cover roast potatoes with it.
Hobbies I’m not sure, none of mine seem low effort.
Habits, just off the top of my head:
- Going to bed early
- No alcohol
- A good weekday stretching routine
- Not making social plans on Sundays (assuming a Mon-Fri work week)
- “No screens” rule in the bedroom
blinking eyes.
Like, extra. We don’t blink enough and they get dry.
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10-15 min walks. Great time to just get the body moving and get into deep thought or listen to an audiobook
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Having a regular water refill routine
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Weekly/monthly budget/finances review
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All the small annoying non “fun” stuff that every old persons unsolicited advice essentially.
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Reading novels; helped me grow my vocabulary and helped me learn empathy and critical thinking by putting me in other people’s shoes
Smoking
- Good for socializing
- Bad for health and wallet
Since when are drug-addictions a hobby? There isn’t even any noticeable benefit of smoking. Drinking, gambling or even the harder drugs at least give you something back.
OP asked for habits or hobbies. IMO smoking is a habit.
Yup he said that, didn’t see it. But “habit” makes it sound so harmless though. Would you call it the same if it wasn’t socially semi-acceptable or if it was crack not tobacco?
Yeah, I’d call smoking crack a habit. I don’t categorize habits as harmless
Hm, addictions can involve learned habits, but it’s surely more than a habit. “Habit” implies the ability to just stop. But this is semantics :)
Lol someones on the wagon, calm down mate, do you want to live forever?
I would like to. But i wouldn’t trade a longer life for a totally benefit-free smoking. I’d take weed or even cocaine over something that just reeks and burns money :-)
I see public smoking to be problematic and anti-social, since such folk don’t seem to care about the health of others due to 2nd hand smoke.
Wait until you find out about tge health effects of fire, gas cooking, and car exhaust
three things i think about everytime i stop smoking :( why bother? I feel better when i dont smoke, after the first three days anyway
I don’t like those too. A reason why I support the popularisation of electric vehicles and induction cooking.
And is it not like saying ‘the climate will likely change, so why have complaints on the global warming adding to it’?
Why pour oil on the fire?
Last year I flew from Midway to Laguardia and when I arrived I realized that I left my smokes in the central time zone. I walked out to the smokers pen and asked someone there for a cigarette and we wound up chatting for like 20 min before our pickup arrived.
The greatest frontline oral health routine is just a wood toothpick and a tongue scraper.
We have kind of been tacitly sold this idea that the way to keep our mouth clean is to use rinses and to brush. The deeper truth is that preventative maintenance is much better!
Get the bacteria fuel off of that wet carpet called a tongue, and get it out of the gaps where your gums meet the teeth.
I still brush my teeth, but my friends, hear me!
If you pick and scrape 10 minutes after eating, the requirement to brush almost goes away. I am not saying to stop. I’m just saying that what I personally experienced was that my mouth feel and teeth were so clean, there were many days that if I did not brush by habit I would have forgotten. I think a lot of people (myself included) use teeth fuzzies and mouth feel as the signal to brush.
Edit: there is a very interesting read about the origins of the toothpick in North America! If you’re interested a quick web search will show you the way. But the gist of it is that Brazilians were noted to have exceptional oral care and wonderful teeth in the 1800s, when no modern dentistry existed - their use of the toothpick was found to be what made it so! Although noted to be an exceptional method of keeping one’s mouth and teeth clean, it did not catch on due to being considered a vulgar practice in NA.
Do a kindness to someone without expectation of recognition or return
Read a book
Find an enjoyable exercise
Sit under a tree on a nice day
Cutting off stressful, negative, or hateful friends and family members has had a hugely positive effect in overall life quality and wallet.
