What is your daily personal development routine?

[Naviy]

Hi everybody I am so incredibly happy and excited about this new forum  

There is a thing I'd like to ask you: "What is your daily personal development routine"? There are a lot of pracitces and excercises, so what do you personally do daily?

 

During the peak of my discipline (this lasted for about 4-6 months) I used to do daily:

1) Visualization: 10-15 minutes (for help with fear of public speaking - did not work actually );

2) Affirmations: 10-15 minutes, 5 minutes per affirmation;

3) Meditation: 20-30 minutes (I tried different techniques);

4) NoFap: abstinence from masturbation or watching porn for long periods of time (2 months+). This does help a lot, there is also a special community devoted to it;

5) Planning: I planned my day with Google calendar;

6) Journaling: an everyday Journal for everything;

7) Going to sleep and getting up at the same time;

8) Reading books and watching self help videos: books from Leo's list and all kind of personal development videos on youtube;

9) Constant Mindfulness pracitce;

10) Gym: 2 times a week (sometimes I skip);

 

Right now, however, I dropped some practices, and currently I do:

1) Affirmations: 10 minutes, 5 minutes per affirmation;

2) Meditation: 20-25 minutes (currently I do Mindfulness meditation as Leo has described it in his Mindfulness meditation video);

3) Constant Mindfulness practice;

4) Reading books and watching videos (not every day now);

5) Journaling (not every day now);

6) NoFap (my longest streak was 60+ days, I relapse more often recently);

7) Gym: 2 times a week (sometimes I skip);

 

So, what about you? What is your daily practice?

 

++ Oops, forgot gym. Added it.

 

 

Edited February 7, 2016 by Naviy

[Enizeo]

I'm curious about the NoFap part. What does it help you with? Do you have any ressources on it?

[Naviy]

12 hours ago, Enizeo said:

I'm curious about the NoFap part. What does it help you with? Do you have any ressources on it?

Well, briefly speaking, based on my 1 year of practicing NoFap:

1) You have much more energy and motivation and you can very clearly experience it.

2) You feel more brave and confident in social interactions, especially with the opposite sex.

3) Overall you feel happier and more optimistic. You feel less lazy. It is easier to get out of comfort zone. You feel more social. You feel less vulnerable. It motivates you to be active and even start new activities (because you are full of life energy). And also, without porn, you feel much "cleaner" and healthier mentally. You feel like you are becoming free from an addiction and you are proud of yourself. Also the view how you see women changes - you respect them more. On longer periods of practice you feel that you are not desperate for sex and that what you really want is love, trust and you feel that you deserve it and capable of achieving it (again, because you have so much energy).

They have a website and community on Reddit.

 

Edited February 8, 2016 by Naviy

[Enizeo]

7 hours ago, Naviy said:

1) You have much more energy and motivation and you can very clearly experience it.

2) You feel more brave and confident in social interactions, especially with the opposite sex.

3) Overall you feel happier and more optimistic. You feel less lazy. It is easier to get out of comfort zone. You feel more social. You feel less vulnerable. It motivates you to be active and even start new activities (because you are full of life energy). And also, without porn, you feel much "cleaner" and healthier mentally. You feel like you are becoming free from an addiction and you are proud of yourself. Also the view how you see women changes - you respect them more. On longer periods of practice you feel that you are not desperate for sex and that what you really want is love, trust and you feel that you deserve it and capable of achieving it (again, because you have so much energy).

That sounds amazing, I've never acutally heard of it before. I think I'm gonna start a new topic about this to see what experience others have with this

[kiana]

I think sex is a very important need ,wether it is having sex with a partner or masterbating. Sex is included in Maslow's hiarchy of needs ,so if you dont satisfy that need youll get ill.

[Enizeo]

I made a topic about it where i actually asked if sex should or shouldn't be included. Because personally I feel like cutting sex out of my life would not be beneficial at all.

[Soren Solevad]

I've also been wondering for a while about the noFap-thing. I haven't really researched anything, but I stopped watching porn myself for about 2 months time now. Shortly after, I thought I'd give it a go not to mastrubate as well. Though I've had a couple backslids I generally get the point. Actually you do feel more energized (or at least less lazy). I think for me it's the part that I can overcome the temptation, which I know wont really do anything big for me anyway, that makes it be such a great thing. I'll definately keep on with the noFap-thing, and highly recommend it

[Zack]

@Naviy

Mine:

1) Gym, 5 times a week

2) Healthy diet (no soda, no sugar, no milk, and no wheat derived products)

2) Self-help & Personal development books

3) Studying about things related to my profession

4) NoFap

5) Long term planning (Finances, Professional, Direction), once a week.

6) Live the present moment and make decisions at the last responsible moment.

I'm not meditating regularly. I have to develop that habit. 

[Naviy]

About NoFap.

You can try it and see if it works by yourself (20-30 days minimum are needed though - no Porn or Masturbation) - actually, you are not losing anything if you give it a try. It is like to stop watching TV for a month. There is also what they call "hard mode" which includes "no Sex". It is even more effective.

You do not necessary need to give up porn or masturbation for your whole life ever. The most important part is "rebooting" - this at least one time when you abstain from PMO for 2+ months. Usually they say that normal reboot period is 3 months of no PMO, but on my experience, I think that 20+ days is already something very effective.

27 minutes ago, Zack said:

 

I'm not meditating regularly. I have to develop that habit. 

For me meditation is #1 of all personal development practices. And not only because of the benefits that you can see they write in formal articles on the Internet (better memory, better focus, better emotional control, etc.). These are good, of course, but for me meditation is something much bigger. With meditation I feel that I become closer to reality (I have no idea what "reality" is, I am just describing the feeling ). I experience life in a clearer way. I have more freedom. I feel that I live a "truer" life overall . I feel that everything is more right and clear when you meditate daily. Everything is just better with meditation I also feel less vulnerable and more flexible (psychologically). More independent from circumstances of life.

Edited February 8, 2016 by Naviy

[Zack]

I felt better when I did it. But I wasn't able to make it stick for more than 1 month. (Tried several times, but never gave it so much importance)

But I'm gonna follow your advice and put that as my top priority. Thanks!

[Franz]

sry wrong thread! please delete

 

Edited February 8, 2016 by Franz

[Naviy]

On 08.02.2016 at 5:16 PM, Zack said:

On 08.02.2016 at 5:16 PM, Zack said:

I felt better when I did it. But I wasn't able to make it stick for more than 1 month. (Tried several times, but never gave it so much importance)

But I'm gonna follow your advice and put that as my top priority. Thanks!

I felt better when I did it. But I wasn't able to make it stick for more than 1 month. (Tried several times, but never gave it so much importance)

But I'm gonna follow your advice and put that as my top priority. Thanks!

You might want to try guided meditations first, probably. Like "Headspace". This is how I got into meditation. Guided meditations are more fun and feel more obligatory.