/SIG/ SELF IMPROVEMENT GENERAL

What have you done to improve yourself recently, Sup Forums? I will be enlisting in the marine corps on saturday

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Quit videogames

Learning french [1hour a day]
Learning to draw thanks to /ic/ I got a literal assload [150+ art books] so I can draw or learn to
Working out 1hour a day

It's hard but I'm doin it.

Whay kind of art? Ive been trying to learn todraw anime but i sucks ass. I cant seem to get motivated enough to lift so i decided to join the marines, they will make me fit whether i want to or not

Eating right, I'm on Starting Strength, working on finishing a novel, hitting dating sites, learning to clicker train my cat. Optimistic overall
Thanks for posting thread and good luck in marines OP. We're all gonna make it brah

This thread made me realize I need to get off this fucking site for a while. Thanks bros.

Have a bump.

puked when i saw bono on tv

To be clear, I just meant that I'm wasting time over all this political shit I have no control over instead of improving myself. Not that /SI/ breds are bad or cringey. I started the self improvement meme a year or two ago and like these threads, and my life has become significantly better. Read Evola if you haven't (if you're white) and good luck bros.

Youre welcome. Im tired of being a miserable loser with no accomplishments. Hopefully the marines will get me where i need to be to move forward

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>>animu
>>whether I want to or not
You must be new here, you're where you need to be though.
2D waifu worship etchings have no place on /sig/ bread, abstract with symbolism or traditional realism. Pick one. Additionally, if your sole intent for joining the Muhreens is for having someone dictate the standard of your life for you in attempt to correct the direction your life is headed, stay out.This goes for any branch of military.
Live life by your own standard or don't live at all.

Keeping a steady sleep schedule, running and recently bought a gym membership, working and studying to keep the discipline up, training myself in voice and piano, and tutoring other students while teaching self improvement and dropping a few redpills.

I want to become stronger, healthier and mlre motivated and just prove to myself that i can accomplish something. Also i kinda fucked up school so its the best option at this point anyway cuz muh benefits

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I´m learning languages by myself
- Chinese & Japanese (Mon, Wed, Fri) two hours
- Spanish & Russia (Tu & Thu) two hours
- Hebrew (Mon-Fri) one hour

Work out one hour everyday...

I am old (33 years old), but I still looking for a good wife, Can I make it user?

You should have no problem finding one, you should be able to have a shot well into your 50s and early 60s if you stay in shape and look good. If you have money, then it should be a cakewalk!

Anybody got a novel that can help capture something like the essence of masculinity, struggle, or achievement? I want to pick up reading on my self-improvement journey, and I figured that I could start with something that can help me condition myself into the person I want to become.

Kinda like step 6-10 in pic related.

>Just dropped out of senior year of high school

Fuck you normalfags

Im in stage 4

Im still attending. I cant enlist with no diploma

Starship Troopers

I forgot about that book. Storm of Steel and that sounds like a good start. Thanks user.

tfw was almost close to stage 7 but reverted back to stage 4

i hatemyself

No Read Evola. Men Among the Ruins, etc.

>french
learn german with me anonkun

Alright, I don't fault you for trying to further yourself. Just think for yourself.
My advice as prior service, weigh your decisions upon whether it will benefit/hinder you in a hostile direct combat scenario.
>>One more episode of *insert visual media*
Skip it. Do pushups; run a mile; study informative military media that's intent is not entertainment but rather educate.
Your mind is your most effective weapon, if it is inert every other weapon you wield will be useless.
>>But imma be support/noncombatant.
Violence is never the answer but it is a response you should be capable of making should necessity demand it. That being said.
Practice combative maneuvers. 1v1. 1v2 and so on. Get comfortable being uncomfortable.

I'm engaging more with my local community and have been introspecting more as of late. I think many of us live in ideas and fantasies in part due to our decentralized means of socializing, is social media. Sometimes it feels like my community is Sup Forums when in reality it's the people around me who all work to benefit the same shared locality. I've become the most powerful male within an organization that I'm in and it feels pretty good. I hope I can have a positive influence on the younger males who joined.

>pic unrelated but great fashion

Clicker training 100% works on cats. But 2 problems:
>it works too well, any click anywhere in the house will have them dashing in to play
>they will game you like a chump and purposefully half-ass tricks until you pony up more treats

Otherwise good on you user, sounds like you're sorting yourself out.

Been nazi saluting random niggers in the school. I'm dead serious.

Did you lift before starting strength?

I might joining the British army soon. Been working out since new year and started boxing. Trying to read more and get better sleep schedule, tryna get there. Started my own tribe with brothers and friends trying to get them into the nationalist movement, and drop redpills. Sorta focusing on the ladies but not th most important.

Just keep trying friends. Find a mantra that helps you stop unproductive thinking and guide you in the right path. Identify your major obstacles and stumbling blocks. I like to keep a daily journal so I can reflect on myself over time, keep myself motivated, and think about solutions to my problems. Perhaps you guys should too.

I plan on reading Evola later, once I have more background knowledge on mysticism. I just want a novel, maybe with philosophical undertones, but not necessarily a philosophy book. Something raw and passionate that I can resonate with and internalize while I'm on my own little journey. Philosophy can be too abstract and sterile to internalize without experience and wisdom, and I'm not at that point yet.

Auto correct. I am joining

>joining the marines because ur a loser.

Ur already so fucked

Not sure about you, but I have quit vidya cold-turkey for almost a year, before realizing that I hate life and my suicidal thoughts got amplified 100x more.

Anons, if you quit vidya, make sure to replace it with an activity you enjoy the same or more, while giving the same feeling of fulfillment (when beating a game or a hard boss, for example).

The Iliad and Oddessy are essentials.
I've heard that Cormack McCarthy's 'The Road' is good. I've only ever watched the movie.
Gary Paulsen's 'Hatchet is an easy read and puts perspective upon urban vs. wilderness living.
F*ght club is a damn good read as well, it highlights the suppression of the modern male's masculine energy with the 9-5 consumerist lifestyle.

It's true, real losers join the army
>1 post by this faggot

I'm wanting to talk to a recruiter in the morning but I'm nervous. To those who enlisted, how do you get over jitters? I know they say it's ok to bring family but I kinda don't have anyone.

How small do you reckon the percentage of people that accomplish steps 7 and 8 are?

No video games, no Netflix, effectively no internet usage minus 2-3 sites... that's gotta be a 1 in a 100,000 people feat, at the VERY least

Haven't had a drink in over two weeks (I'm an alcoholic, have been for 8 years)
Have been working hard at my new career and got a 3 dollar raise. Stopped viewing pornography as much, (once in two weeks).

/sieg heil/

Dropped from 240lbs and fat down to 215 and very muscular, started minoxidil, finasteride and nazural shampoo and got my hairline back, whitened my teeth, stopped drinking soda, stopped eating fast food, stopped eating candy/pastries, cleaned the fuck out of my house and unloaded most of the shit I don't need, paid off almost al of my debt, started dating a 9/10 QT, renegotiated my companies contract with my investors and a few other things... 2017 was a good year for me. It started with Trump and only got better.

>be OP
>save the thumbnail

kill yourself

I'm at about 225 I think. How'd you lose the weight?

I'm keeping up my workout routine.
Still working on my diet. Even though I'm healthier than 99% of other amerifats, I still want to get rid of my love handles.
I can do nearly 80 push-ups without resting. Over 100 in under two minutes.

Started reaching out to social groups to make friends away from my toxic work environment. It's taking its time, but it's going well so far.

Pretty sure I nearly aced my most recent test. Gonna work on acing the next one that I have on Monday.

Trying to quit watching porn. The most difficult of all.
I started slowly learning dutch about 6 months ago, purely for my own entertainment. I doubt I'll ever use it, though I really enjoy the language.
Started eating a lot better. Cut garbage out of my diet and I am incrementally replacing it with healthy food
Moved into a basic daily workout routine
Quit drinking almost entirely (I'm not going to stop completely, just exercising moderation.)
Going to cut back on weed and move into phasing it out completely. I'm not going to go cold turkey straight away, it is too crucial for my sleep at the moment.
The last and most beneficial would just be organizing my time and earmarking time for certain tasks and chores for when I get home. The structure is great and I've been getting a lot done.

Was learning German a while back, six months straight then stopped for some reason. Was thinking about picking it up again but thought that there'd be no point in another 10 years

For fucks sake dont have your family hold your hand. Grab hold of your nuts and walk up into the recruiter's office. He will try to sell you anything he can to get your name on that paper. He doesn't care what happens to you after that. KNOW THAT THIS ISNT YOUR ONLY OPTION! This gives you leverage, they can pull strings if you hardball them just right. Be ambiguous and seem indecisive but have a clear pursuit in mind.
Study for the aptitude test, there are mobile apps. It increases your leverage. The better you do, the more moist his boipuccy gets.
In choosing a occupation, see to it that your transition from service is able to be preceded by a civilian job. Aviation/radar, technical shit like engineering and electrical, medical, linguistics, etc. If you intend on being a lifer start infantry and proceed as before mentioned.

Wew not bad user. You probably won't even need the hormone blockers once you're below 200, fat cells are where the estrogen>testosterone conversion happens and once your adipocytes aren't fucking up your metabolism anymore you'll notice those problems start to go away. Since steroid hormones affect gene expression, it might take several months after losing weight before you really "feel" better.

Keep working man.

I know about most of that already, no one is holding my hand. But I would like to know about these study sources you speak of. Where exactly do I take the ASVAB? I know the branch I'm going to and I know the jobs I want that I am qualified for.

The answer probably is not what you want to hear... I went on a strict diet, took a lot of supplements, drank protein shakes and spent two hours in the gym almost every single day. After about five months, I was down only ten pounds but my waste had slimmed dramatically and I had a ridiculous amount of new strength and energy. Over the next few months, I had started out doing mostly cardio, burning 600-800 calories per day and strength training twice per week. After five months, I switched it to four days of strength training and one day of cardio and have gotten much bigger in the arms, chest and back and mybwaste has dropped only a little. Diet is the key to it all for losing weight, exercise is the key to bulking up.

I used to be a professional athlete.

>both those options
ILL TAKE IT
I was on SS a couple of months, then fell out about a month ago and checked that I was leaving out accessory work :-\ I'm holding to it and watching my diet. Plus supplementing as sacrifice to the gods of hi-T. BLOOD AND THUNDER

Most I did was weight lifting in highschool. I'm trying to get a good diet going. Starvation mode due to under eating has sucked but I've been going down by eating regularly. But it's honestly more effort than you'd think to go "right, meal time" when you only feel hungry after nothing for an entire day.

Goddamn... I made nearly this entire journey without ever being educated about it.I'm on stage 10 without realizing it...

Well, if you feel that way user. But I would suggest that you strive to read two books per week anyway. The Horus Heresy and Ride the Tiger would be a good combination.

Remember that philosophy, especially the classical Western forms are all about developing your foresight and setting existential foundations. I would recommend setting them early, and to not seek motivation. I spent years studying philosophy and it made my life better, and I read stuff like the Eddas and Ceasar's journals for inspiration occasionally.

here's an easy to do starter pack of activities:

1. Get the FUCK off carbs, especially sugar. Start a keto diet. I cannot stress enough how much carbs / "Big Sugar" is one of THE BIGGEST things cucking your physical and mental health right now, setting your whole life up for failure.

2. Do pushups, situps, planks at home, 3 days a week at least. Work in some cardio (biking, running, swimming) if you can. Ideally, lift weights. Weightlifting is one of the best exercises you can do, for both strength and cardiovascular health.

3. I you take drugs (illegal or prescribed) that aren't critical to your survival, start weening yourself off them. If you drink alcohol, fucking stop that shit -- as a very occasional treat, have something like bourbon if you must.

After that you can worry about having the fortitude to accomplish stopping watching your shemale porn and Jewflix shit.

Anyone who does “joining da marines to get ma lyfe firurgex out” will not become a marine. Yes, the same person could get babysat by the army for the rest of their life. Hang by a rope from the neck; until ur dead!

>Gary Paulsen's 'Hatchet
>Cormack McCarthy's 'The Road'
Thanks user. I've already read both the Iliad and the Odyssey. Maybe I should read them again. Sometimes I feel like Telemachus, biding my time while enduring humiliating circumstances that prevent me from coming into my own.

social autismo here. i've been doing bodyweight exercises and jumping rope for the past month, but i'm pretty bored of the bodyweight shit. seems more time consuming than just lifting weights would be. is it really necessary to get a spotter if you're lifting though? or even join a gym? should i just try building up my own weight equipment at home?

You take the test at meps. Look on the app store, there's a good number of them. The ones you pay for might offer better quality of study guide but not always. Like always, exercise personal discernment.

Carbs are the most anabolic macro-nutrient you dummy, they help you gain muscle.

sugar is cancer though

>carbs are bad

Enjoy low T

Whenever I take a cheat day on my diet, I eat way too much. I'm scared once I get to my goal weight, I'll just eat again until I'm back up to my original weight.

What do?

>pay for the whole seat but all you'll need is the EDGE

1) Sat down with my fiance and explained the level of importance that I place on Ancestral Heritage and National Identity, and the level of importance I want that to play in the raising of the children we're going to have.
2) Figuring out a plan to work part time on weekends, in addition to my normal 9-5 so we can save up some extra cash for child-related expenses. Looking at applying for a trade, so I can improve hobby-level knowledge, so I'll be able to make & sell stuff online down the road.
3) Listened to different political opinions on current events for about hours. Trying to tease out the logical, well formed arguments and ignore the trash.
4) Didn't over eat at any meal today.

>I will be enlisting in the marine corps on Saturday
I can't tell you what to do, and I resented it when others gave me unsolicited advice when I enlisted, I just hope you are doing it for the right reasons. Focus on improving yourself, but keep an eye on the men next to you or else you'll all get fucked for it.

>not that /SI/ breds are bad or cringey.
but they are user, they are.
>To be clear, I just meant that I'm wasting time over all this political shit I have no control over instead of improving myself.
This is your ultimate redpill.

Dude, I joined the navy, and it catapulted me into self improvement. I was fat when I showed up at boot camp, and I knew that I needed to keep the momentum going when I graduated (I was 193, now 160). The marines are gonna get you super fit, but my biggest problem is that I'm stuck with an enormous number of non-redpilled dickheads who have no concept of working toward their dreams. They sit around being lazy as fuck, and goddamn they don't understand why I'm so pissed off all the time.

I don't want to make the military sound dismal, but I have this one piece of advice for you: It is far better to deal with the annoyances of leadership than the agony of bad leadership.

So when they ask for someone to lead, fucking do it. Don't be afraid to fail because failure is less painful than being let around by an idiot.

Carbs left unburned will be stored as glucose in fatty tissue, ya dunce.

>wants to get big
>is too much of a pussy to lift without a big daddy spotting him
never gonna make it

there was an underage kid posting the other day, made like 70 posts about how he was gonna join the marines and everything he said was straight out of some fucking video game dialogue (spelled improperly too). He was saying that "they'll set me straight" and "make me a man" and whatnot. I've heard that marines are actually the most braindead out of all the branches, is dis true?

Pick up a trade user. Make dank wads of cash being a welder, pipelayer, electrician, or plumber.

Any other info? I know that if I ask, he'll do all he can to push me in but will he just randomly sign off on anything as long as it makes me go in sooner than later?

That why you dont go over a 500 calorie surplus when your bulking to mitigate fat gain. Not everyone starts as a fatty user.

Just walk into the recruiter office and say you want to join. It's that easy, and don't bring family. This is your journey, not their's.

It's nerve racking as fuck as the days wind down to you shipping out, but just focus on the long-term reasons of why you're doing it and how a bunch of useless morons end up graduating boot every week. You'll realize how much more put-together and stable you are when you see some of the dipshits going through Bootcamp fail at basic functioning.

Get a bench press, do aerobics before ur weightlifting and eat big daily. Excersize your core by laying on your back and kicking ur legs in the air straight. Start going to the gym at odd hours and once you get used to the scene then go at regular hours.

MARCUS AURELIUS PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS

Nice post!

YOU ARE NOT STOICS YOU ARE LARPING AS STOICS

Carbs (simple and complex) are the only macronutrient you can survive without. Your liver can synthesize glucose with adequate lipid/amino acid supplies; sugar in all its forms is easy energy but completely unnecessary. You could permanently avoid bread, berries, potatoes, corn, literally all carbohydrates natural or otherwise, and still be perfectly healthy as long you get protein and fat calories.

Get a squatrack,plates, olympic barbell, and an adjustable bench. Thats all you really need to min-max gains

I have read or re-read The Federalist Papers, The Communist Manifesto, Rules for Radicals, Common Sense, and a few others. Currently reading F.A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom and Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince (Leo Paul de Alvarez translation). Looking for a good unbiased translation of Mein Kampf if anyone has suggestions.

Also changed my diet to be /fit/ as fuck and started working out. As well as brushing up on logic, basic math (arithmetic through differential equations), prob & stats, and topology. And practicing so programing in hopes of getting into a good computer related program in the Air Force I am joining near the end of December. Oh and been off Sup Forums and Sup Forums in general lately.

> inb4 stop larping you wouldn't be doing all of that if you post here

I grew up on Sup Forums back in the day so the lame degeneracy of college drove me up a wall to the point I dropped out and wasted my life until now.

How long between first chatting and shipping out? One thing is I gotta figure out what to do with my shit. Been on my own since I was 21 and I don't know what to keep and what to toss.

And for Gods sake Stoicism is a SLAVE MENTALITY. Just because a Philosphy has good advice does not mean you should adopt it. Epicureans had some verygood advice AND THEY WERE NIHILISTS.

I get up early and go to bed early now. Tbh it hasn't helped much.

Sup Forums, how do I get my sex life together? I'm living pretty well in every other regard, working out, reading, meditate when I can (not perfect practice, but its something I'm trying to work on), about to graduate with a degree after getting myself back into school, quit cigarettes, no drugs, almost no drinking, good stuff all around. The catch is, its all coming out via sex. I'm not banging hookers or anything crazy like that, but I'm getting sexually involved with girls far below my level just because I don't know how to say no. I'm sexually involved with multiple women at the moment, and none of them are doing anything for me, I just don't know how to stop. Its my one vice left.

Wat do Sup Forums?

Well, all I can do is encourage you to open your minds and read books like "Good Calories, Bad Calories" or the shortened version.

We talk about all kinds of decades-long psyop societal cucking here, yeah? Carbs, namely manifest in the form of sugar, are no different -- we're talking decades upon decades of old science that has yielded shit like the "food pyramid" and not helped us much. Add to that the number of "Big X" industries based around feeding our fat asses carbs (corn, anyone?) that will go to great lengths to protect their interests.

Sugar... HFCS... carbs in general... whatever label you want to use, it's a straight up 100% addictive substance right up there with all the hard drugs. Do yourself a favor and at least consider the possibility that we've been lied to -- as we've been on so many other things -- our whole lives.

Avoiding carbs is sub-optimal for performance. I bet you ketoshills cant even lmao3plate squat.

Rice and oats are good for you faggot

It depends, the more mission critical of a occupation you go for the more likely he will try to offer incentive(rank/bonus/additional training). Make sure you MEET AND EXCEED THE STANDARDS and FOLLOW THROUGH if you are put on a delayed entry program, because the occupational schools do have a limited amount of slots. YOU WILL HAVE TO COMPETE TO MAINTAIN YOUR PLACEMENT IN THE OCCUPATIONAL SCHOOL SLOT.
Remember, don't stop hitting when they tap. You're only finished when they are no longer a threat, i.e dead.

go to church.
everyone knows sex outside of marriage is immoral, user.

How about avoiding Stiocism? Be free goy

>and still be perfectly healthy

Wrong, without carbs you will become hypothyroid unless you pop T3 like Candy

Chair Force IT is what I'm going for, actually. Not too much gunplay there, though I already know my basic way around a rifle.

Unironically check the RedPill subplebbit, lot of helpful articles on the sidebar. The solution ends up being to value yourself more than potential mates, thus changing your perspective to realize that you hold just as much "power" being the gatekeeper of relationships as women do being the gatekeepers of sex. You must view potential mates as disposable until they prove their value, sad but true.

"Stop putting pussy on a pedestal" ends up being wise advice, but it represents a mental paradigm shift that takes a while to fully internalize.

>Find: Town Hall 0
>Find: City Council 0
>Find: Volunteer 0

Do stuff that matters you guys.

This is the most dumbfucking conversation I have ever seen inmy life. Your philiospphies are STUPID


GO BAAAACK

I switched from regular soda to diet

The point is getting your own life in order before trying to effect change in the community.

I quit smoking two months ago. I had become obese, 299 lbs 6'0". Since Nov 12 I am now 281lbs. Still fat as fuck but losing weight rapidly. I no longer feel cranky as fuck nor crave fast foods. I am eating healthy lean meats, cut soy products (before I knew it was a meme) and lowered sugar intake dramatically. Still have a thing for diet sodas.. my last vice.

My wife is enlisting in the army reserve tomorrow and will ship out February for basic training. I expect to have lost dramatically more weight by then and when she gets back from training I will the enlist as well. I CANNOT arrive to her graduation fat.

>I will be enlisting in the marine corps on saturday
Go Coast Guard instead, user! You won't be fighting for Israel. You will get good discipline and a future. You will actually be helping America.

Develop a system. Goals are for losers.

>LALALALA MUH GREEK PHILOSPHY