I've been feeling very down and tired for the last 4 months. I feel like I've completely lost my identity and my passion for anything. I want to regroup, collect my thoughts and really understand who I really am.

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Close my backlogs

Do some exercise daily

Wake up by 7 am or earlier

Spend an hour learning each day (something, anything really)

Spend 20 mins minimum reading

Meditate/journal for 10 mins each day (any one)

I'm redoing this all over again because I fell off track

• cut down time wasted on binge watching
• wake up daily early fresh
• be on top of work and goals
• habit of daily work out

Simple is the only thing that works!

I’m back pt 2. Need to iron out some old habits if I want to thrive in my adult life. Hope everyone is doing well.

I’m back.

Going to be starting in the morning (from the UK). Here's my plan Stretch, run, weightless exercises, some weights, cool off. If you want speciation on stuff I'll happily give it. And I'll be posting my progress here in the comments.

Kinda in a rut here. Noticed that I've fallen from my ideal path these past few years. Maybe it's the folks I surround myself with... or perhaps just the habits I've formed without really noticing. But now, now I'd like to get back into the fight. To start doing more of what I need rather than what I want. I used to take a lot of pride in setting the example for my peers and more importantly myself. I really miss that guy you know? To look in a mirror and see a fella willing to put in the work. I need to step up my diet. My fitness. My mental fortitude, Then lastly and hopefully my belief in myself.

Today and everyday henceforth for the next 40 days I will write a minimum of One Thousand words every day. 16th November 2018...bring it on

I was an avid reader when I was a kid. Somehow I lost the ability to sit down and read. I tried and was unsuccessful in completing even a single book in recent times. Now I am giving myself 40 days to change this.

I will be reading Galaxy's Edge series (seems fun). I will initially start with 40 pages per day (20 when I get up and 20 before I go to sleep). There are 9 books in total. I will try to complete them in these 40 days.

Not much context needed. Struggled. Not at acute risk of suicide anymore. Pregnant. Need income, need savings, need everything. Am living in a healthy environment now. Yay! Am eating properly. Yay!

Still poor and helpless.

Hustling damn hard but have been looking at all the wrong places (beermoney subreddit + job hunting, job hunting sounds right but nobody hires me so I need to change strategies.)

I got a small job for $150 to do online. Gonna try making Amazon Merch. Gonna try build a website. Gonna get more of those small actual jobs. Gonna sell my dirty panties to fetishists. I don't care, nobody is giving me a full-time job but I still need money to live and breathe.

I started my PhD in 2012. In the UK, PhDs are only 3-4 years long. I'm 6 years in.

I had a nervous breakdown and had to take time out mid-PhD to recover. When I returned, I thought I would complete and submit my thesis by December 2016. This turned into July 2017. September 2017. March 2018.

I have sacrificed my 20s to this PhD. I've sacrificed a loving relationship, time with family and friends, hobbies, even my mental and physical health to this PhD. It has become a noose around my neck, strangling me every day. My supervisor who said I was doing great for years, who OK'd the detailed outline and evidence components of my thesis, turned around when I started to write up and said I didn't have enough to pass. I worked unfunded on this for a year and a half until I couldn't take the pressure from the debt I was building and had to get a job. £15000 in debt. With hindsight, what I was being asked to do was akin to a second PhD.

I've tried finishing my thesis since, but I've crumbled almost every time I open my laptop. I've tried walking away from it, to no avail. It haunts me. Aside from that, I want to finish it. I am battling my own demons to confront this and they win out most days.

I'm making a last ditch attempt to put something together. I'm fortunate enough to have a supportive mentor and my family who believe in me when I don't. My official final deadline is end of March, but I know that's unrealistic at this stage. So I hope if I can do a little bit every day, then, in 40 days, maybe I will have something I can submit. It's not going to be perfect. It's not going to be even close to what I wanted this to be. But at least it will be something.

So long story short, the past 4 years have been metaphoricly and literally all over the place. But the last year took a massive toll on me. I've become a daily weed smoker, watching more pornography then I want to, going deeper and deeper into debt and refuseing to do anything to change back to the happy social individual I was.

Tomorrow starts my 40 days. This isn't something i can afford to fail. Success for me is

-a grasp on my financial situation

-daily exercise

-income from 2 jobs

-be more out going/go on a date (Ive missed multiple potienal dates and instead stayed with women I wasn't happy with. So this would help my mental health to put myself out there again)

-Stop smoking weed for 30 days, if not, completely.

-Post more questions about how to better improve my self and correct bad habbits

-Stop watching porn

-Meditate (this is to help with anxiety, however the only way i can truly clear anxienty is through action on everything else.)

I'm stressd, Im constantly fighting negative thoughts, and since its summer my friends and family are very few so im pretty much alone. But I need to do this, on my own. Wish me luck.

And if anyone wants to offer help in anyway I'll gladly accept it. Thanks to all in advance!

I recently spent about 100 days learning 'I Giorni' by Ludovico Einaudi as my first piano piece. It was tough at times but I got there and now I want to tackle something tougher that I love listening to!

I had a bad 2 months, and grew very depressed. When I get like that, I become almost 'less than human' in my daily routine and behavior. I become like a ghost of myself. Anyway, I quit exercising, drank almost every day, slept all the time, quit taking care of myself, smoked a pack a day, binged on pornography, isolated myself from all the people in my life, and ate exclusively fast food. I became suicidal, and sunk deeper and deeper into an abyss that only those who suffer from clinical depression can even imagine.

Finally, I went to a p-doc and got some meds. I was very surpirsed because they actually worked. [In the past, medication has always been a mixed bag for me; lots of bad side-effects, questionable effectiveness.]

So I didn't get back to 100% by any stretch, but I DID almost immediately start doing 100 times better than I was. Almost like a light switch, I became MYSELF again, and mcy entire habits and routine switched back to the higher-functioning version of me that I am when I am not in the midst of a depressive episode.

The amount of energy, stamina, and fitness that I lost in that 2+ month period was really pretty surprising. I've done this before, and more-or-less bounced back [I am fairly athletic normally and like to run.]

Plus I gained almost 20 pounds. So to make a long story short, I really became a mess.

So about 9 days ago, I was able to really make some drastic changes in my routine that I hope to keep up. I think if I can keep them up for 40 days, they may become permanent for me.

I went cold turkey on the drinking and smoking, and also changed to a keto diet. (I have done it before; it is a good way to eat whole foods, lose weight, and become strict with what you're putting into your body.) I also started walking every day, even though I only have the energy to walk short distances.

So ya, I really want to try to stick this out for 40 days, seeing if I can make the changes permanent. The meds that I got on seem to stabilize/ground me in a way that most people must take for granted... but has been lacking in me my entire adult life.

So anyway, give me 40 days to try to re-establish a healthy lifestyle.

I am a terrible student, I have failed to motivate myself countless times. I nearly failed first year. I did fail second year. My entire degree, every grade will come down to 5 exams, over as many days, starting on the 30th May.

I will work each and every day, learn as much as I can in the next 40 days to be prepared for these exams and, with the help of a small miracle, come out of the other side with a degree.

It has been dragging on forever and is affecting all aspects of my life.

I don't see my daughter over weekends, I have to work part time so I am broke and I can't think of anything else.

I just need to write up all the shit I have in my head right now. I will commenting with the daily story.

I know this is a tiny subreddit and that 10 people max will see this, but I will make it happen for you as well.

I created cow.chat, a semi-anonymous semi-location-based chat room. And my goal is to get 1000 users in cow.chat by february 28th (40 days).

You see cow.chat here:

https://www.cow.chat/

Currently it only has 1 user online, so 999 users to go! I'll have to market cow.chat, make sure it stays online, pay for the hosting bill and tell more and more people about it until it's good. I'll probably also have to turn on some anti-spam code as well.

I'd like to cut from 69.5kg to about 65kg.

Get into a regular and disciplined routine of practicing sax, guitar, and vocals.

Surf and run almost daily.

Get my drivers licence.

I think I can do it, just need something to keep me accountable.

I'm 24, Assistant Professor in a University. My workload in terms of class just got increased. I am doing my PhD at the same time (joined for as a research scholar and a professor in June). My classes are going on great, I just lack the time needed to perform work for my PhD asap and get myself fit by working out and gaining muscle because I have been idle instead of an idol. So, here is my challenge to myself: Next 40 days, no idle time, no gaming, only class preparations, research work and workout! Tl;dr : 40 days to get rid of my laziness and start working out and get my PhD work started and continuing.

10-17-16 - 11-24-16 Here we go!

Alright so a little pretext about this.

I have been depressed for the last year or so but no matter how much I felt like a piece of shit I tried to improve myself anyway possible. I created a post about alittle over a year and a half ago. Link here

okay now that you know the preface a little back story around a year ago I applied for a job that I knew I would love. I was working at a place I hated and I knew that I wanted something better. The company that I wanted to work for called me for an interview, and I was ecstatic. I mean the position I applied for I knew nothing about ( I knew I could learn how to do it however at that time I knew nothing.) The only problem? I was on the other side of the country for the company I worked for. I asked for a phone interview and they denied it. Since I knew I really wanted a job I decided to travel across the United States in 24 hours to take this interview in person. The result? I got a email not 2 hours after I finished the interview saying they did't want me. I was beyond devastated, I mean I just wasted money to fly across the united states, was stressed beyond belief tried my best only to be thrown aside like trash a few hours after I poured my heart out. Then after I recovered from that they posted another position only a step higher. I decided fuck them I will be so damn good (in something I knew nothing about) I would force them to hire me. Who are they to tell me I was not skilled enough for the other job. The result? They called me for a second interview!!! I though ok this is serious, I need to be serious also. So I got certified for this job. Something that takes people years to do and I did it in 14 days . I thought for sure I am getting this job. I went for the final interview... I nailed it. They even called all of my jobs and references. I was excited only to be let down again. They selected someone else, I was beyond furious. Was this a joke how could I put so much effort into something only to be turned down? I was still at the same depressing job I had and they kept dangling this holy grail of a job in front of me and yanking it away from me at the last moment. Fine I though fuck them I will find a job 10 times better (who was I kidding lol this was the job you dream about.) I called the company and politely demanded to at least know the reason they didn't hire me. They wouldn't tell me and finally I accepted that. 3 weeks later I got a call from that company saying that they are opening up another position and I should apply for it. I was skeptical, I mean I went twice now for this job only to be denied. Well of course I applied and made it to the final interview.....only to be accepted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now something you may not have realized... I had been applying for this job for a year exactly 363 days to be exact. Now throughout that time I was kicked and torn down but I refused to give up. I will not let anyone define who I am or what I am capable of except me.

For this job I that I was denied for twice I have received 3 certifications and gained a years worth of experience. Realize I never was guaranteed this job but I never gave up.

I think this should apply to everyone..

Fuck everyone in your way. Fuck everyone who doesn't believe in you. Kill it today. Kill it tomorrow. Kill it til you can't anymore. Source

So now for the Giveme40days

I have exactly 40 days until I start my new job and I want to show everyone that I came to play. I want to excel, exceed and impress every single person there physically, intellectually and spiritually.

In order to do that I want to complete the following.

1. I want to lose 15 LBS I am 6FT @ 240 LBS so I figure this should not be hard.
2. I not only want to research what it is I will be doing I want to master it.
3. basically if you read my previous post I want to beast out because I plan on finding a girl to date I will workout 6 days a week until I begin that job.

4.I will get 100% on every single assignment for my schooling 5. I want to just be absolutely amazing in everything that I do.

I am kicking around the idea of doing a video about this don't quote me on it though.

so in conclusion

Don't let anyone define you. Fuck them, show them every single day that you are ready to prove them wrong in every single way.

(P.S) may be a little tipsy so I expect sober me to edit this eventually. However I will check in every single day with updates.

I just quit my job yesterday with no notice and after leaving what was effectively a hostage situation I am now looking at the opportunity to make some serious changes in my life. Give me 40 days to get these tasks done:

1. Complete r/loseit's 30 day challenge.

2. Complete a thorough sort/purge/deep clean of my house. (Started and 1/3 done.)

3. Start and complete the repairs needed on the car and my motorcycle. (New job requires a considerable commute.)

4. Catch up on the family budget. (At least 2 months behind.)

5. Begin and thrive at my new job. (1st day is September 6th!)

6. Limit my phone games to less than an hour a day. (Currently embarrassingly large amount of time 4-5+ hours)

I am going to take 40 days.

At the end of those 40 days I will have completed my statistical data analysis, written it up with a literature review and formatted it for a presentation to my classmates and staff at my University.

I will be healthy, fit and happy.

I will be in a relationship with a woman with a 10/10 personality who challenges me to accept her physical imperfections. One way to overcome my concerns will be to stop fapping which is said to increase sexual desire and relationship satisfaction.

I will do my back rehabilitation exercises everyday, and will not excoriate or use intoxicants.

I will report back.

I will conquer my goals. I am unleashing my potential before I exile myself to the French Foreign Legion.

For a variety of reasons, I have let my place become a mess, and it is negatively affecting my mental health and relationship wih my roommates.

I have 40 days to clean up that mess and develop some habits/discipline re: cleaning!

PLEASE ASK ME TO CHECK IN AS OFTEN AS YOU ARE WILLING. I need to be held accountable!

Starting today, with doing my dishes WHEN I AM DONE, and not days later!

This week marks the week my procrastination ends and my procreation begins. I have been resting on my laurels for the past 6 weeks doing the odd piece of work. Almost no progress in conceptualising my thesis.

I got rid of all my favourite subreddits and replaced them with motivational and get studying subreddits. So far so good.

My word limit is 12,000. My deadline is the end of this month. With breaks for work (to earn money to pay for this degree!!) and time with my girlfriend I have calculated a daily target of 700 words.

Today is day 1.

I will post back each evening to update you all of my progress.

Alright so a little back story.

I recently bought a industrial laser engraver from China and I just received it last weekend in the United States. I plan to use it in a engraving/graphics company. After the price of the laser and the shipping/import fees to get it inside the united states (On a side note NEVER try to import a laser engraver from china by yourself your going to have a bad time...mmmkay). The total investment cost $2,105.37 I know I can make that back because I have been etching beer mugs and made money that way, the laser engraver will just make it more productive and I will be able to engrave on more stuff.

40DayGoal

In the next 40 days I will sell a total of 100 mugs so that I will make a profit of $2,000.00

I understand that basically I am starting from scratch including learning how to use the machine. However I feel that now I have truly invested in this side business its time to get serious about it.

I will be updating this post dailey with date tags such as 06/25/2016 for example that will follow what I learned, completed and sold for the day.

Wish me luck

-Gearfuze

I have full time job, but i don't see great future in it and am also getting tired of working for others. After some exploration and trials for about an year, I am now seriously aspiring to be self employed in one particular field. But this requires me to gain decent expertise in it to have any shot at success.

For past 6 months, the pattern has been that when motivation hits me, I work on my goals for three to four days, make some progress, before losing motivation and breaking the routine for next week to 10 days. And again repeat the same pattern. I feel, I desperately need to stick to some consistent routine.

So my 40 days goals are :

1. Complete two books in next 20 days.

• Book #1 (MP) is 360 pages - 18 pages/day

• Book #2 (RASA) is 250 pages - 13 pages/day

At the end of this period, I plan to set specific goals to practice what i learn , for next 20 days.

2. 40 workout sessions (some weekends i work out twice a day - weights and cardio )

3. Spend at least 6 non-working days (Sat/Sun) completely outdoors.

Day 0

Edit 1 : Corrected pages numbers of RASA.