In the last year I have made two changes:<p>* regular consistent exercise. Started small 10 mins of running and 10 push-ups. Slowly increasing volume, but never pushing to the point where I’m sore later.<p>* started cooking for myself. It was a huge paradigm shift going from eating fast food for lunch and dinner to having meals that I can through together in 20 minutes.<p>Just from these two things I have seen a world of difference in my mood, mental state as well as my physical abilities.<p>EDIT: quitting FB cut out a lot of noise and the feeling of missing out. Once that was gone I cared less about what people thought I was doing.
No user-generated content (except HN).<p>Stopped using Facebook, and never started using Twitter, reddit, Instagram, etc.<p>I don't read comment sections or user-generated content anywhere else. It has been great for my mental health, time, and perspective about the world. I have not felt less informed.
Writing out rules for life and trying to follow them:<p><a href="https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing/rules" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing/rules</a>
Getting an eink secondary monitor for my workstation. I use to get pretty bad eye strain that lasted for days from LCD screens. It got so bad I forgot how it feels to wake up without my eyes hurting. Now it's all gone.<p>The product offering of eink screens is virtually non-existent, the only usable one for interactive work that I found was the Dasung 13.3", which is the one I got.