The Official Mamba Mentality self improvement/betterment thread

[2Quik4UHoes]

Awhile back in the RIP Kobe thread, someone mentioned the idea of starting a thread for those of us that want to carry on Kobe’s legacy of hard work and dedication so that we may be able to check on each other and hold each other accountable for getting to our goals.

I’d like it if this thread could stay in here and be stickied. I know we come here primarily to shoot the shyt about sports but I feel like a thread like this can truly keep up the real connections we’ve begun to develop. And at the same time we can use this thread to challenge ourselves and be better.

So with that said, anyone that wants to get involved it’s simple. Just post whatever goals you’re working towards, your process, progress made so far, how much further you have to go, and what tasks must be done in order for you to complete and go on to the next challenge. I’ll use myself as an example:

Name: 2Quik

Personal goals: Multi-linguistics, at least 20 books read by end of the year, teaching myself how to draw/paint, teach myself a musical instrument (piano), regularly using yoga/meditation, improve physique (Body goal: Pac/Wayne level) and overall health (transition into plant based diet), work out a more proper budget to begin learning financial literacy.

How I’m doing it: 30 mins of Duolingo daily, found a new app called uTalk which has many African languages. Will pursue soon. Take 30 mins to an hour to practice drawing simple pictures from google. I use my left hand to teach myself how to be ambidextrous and because it forces me to focus more. Practice piano 15 to 30 mins a day so I can ease the habit into my routine. Four days a week at the gym, roughly an hour, broken down into Upper body, lower body, full body, and vanity days. Yoga is done first thing in the morning before I do anything so as to have a clear fresh mind. Yoga and meditation lasts for an hour and a half.

Professional goals: Earn IT certifications in CyberSecurity with an emphasis on Network and Cloud security. Use employment in this field in order to more freely pursue my artistic endeavors such as books projects (both fiction and non-fiction), poetry, music, and when proficient enough painting as well.

What I’m doing: using study material from school as well as a cbtnuggets account someone let me use. I’ve also begun re-igniting my artistic fires since I’ve graduated and am only a few months away from obtaining my required certs. Study time varies but must be from 2 To 4 hours.

Other goals: Try to be more understanding towards others. Dedicate myself to myself and realize that this is totally fine. Only rely on connections already established. Worry about those new connections as my life improves and expands. Overcome myself.

How I’ll do that: The yoga and meditation helps a lot. But also listening more to my instinct and inner voice and trusting it more. We often find ourselves trying to live out the dreams of others rather than pursuing our own. I’m going to quit smoking weed from today until mid April as a challenge to myself that I can overcome myself and reach higher goals.

And please feel free to indulge whatever amount of info is comfortable to you. Let’s be our own advocates and each other’s motivators brehs. Let’s honor Kobe by honoring the best in ourselves. Let’s go be great brehs.

 

[intruder]

in

 

[((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL]

Dope. Will be back shortly

 

[MikelArteta]

 

[theoretic]

Reserved.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Please do @Lord Scarf and I’ll do the same for you and anyone else. I’ll admit I spent the whole week off since I just finished school so I gotta make up for lost time this week. After the memorial ima do at least two hours of watching lectures and then do my side exercises like language and art.

 

[easymoneysniper]

Reserved

GOAT Thread


Edit: Here’s what I’m up to:

1. Making the best of this Corona Situation by cooking my own meals, saving cash from not eating out, improving my health, cancelling any subscriptions that I don’t use and generally trying to live cheap and save money. Still using an iPhone 7 from 3 years ago, wanted to upgrade but holding off to get as much juice out of this one

2. Spending less time on Coli, social media, etc.







Will be back for the playoffs


3. Becoming more assertive in the workplace, not letting scrubs like draymond walk all over me

4. Working on my own website - got myself a plan and got a breh from school whose an IT whiz, will take a couple of years of work, but trying to put an hour each day after work into it at least. Did 4 hours today, feeling good about it

Gotta say its hard to keep up the intensity, need to work on that

 

[2CT]

magnificent posting

 

[cartierhoe]

Yessir brother! Looking forward to reading and contributing to this thread


Some goals I came up with the beginning of the year...

Getting straight A's this semester
Get security+ cert
Read a book a week
Read my bible everyday
Get my diet back right
Always in the gym but I wanna start training boxing or muay thai once a week
Make passive income/start a business...

Got a lot more I had circling in my head but these are the few I can think of off top

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Glad to see y’all fukkin wit it. I think this can be a great resource. Btw, make to-do lists. They work really good especially if you like me and you not as used to organizing your moves. It really helps with focus.

 

[Rekkapryde]

I like this....

 

[a murda]

It might sound crazy...but now in some of my decision making lately Ive actually ask myself mentally what would Kobe do or tell you to do especially if I feel like I'm gonna give up on something....I keep pressing myself to go forward and that shyt work brehs..I'm getting emotional just typing this shyt.

 

[a murda]

*Sticky this thread

 

[2CT]

Glad to see y’all fukkin wit it. I think this can be a great resource. Btw, make to-do lists. They work really good especially if you like me and you not as used to organizing your moves. It really helps with focus.

facts man i was just telling one of my peoples this last week, i call it "being your own secretary" and it really does work so i strongly encourage it

 

[Monsanto]

Dope thread

Goals:
Believe in myself
Play the piano
Play the violin
Write my novel
Learn Japanese

Process:
I've been learning Japanese for almost a year and have gaps in my knowledge that need to be corrected. For that I'm starting from the beginning with starter material in which I'm completing 5 chapters a day with review. Reading articles and listening to Japanese only music for 80% of my consumption rate.

Piano is really fun trying to get things out by ear and the freedom to create, 45 minutes to an hour.

Violin, my fingers know where to go, my ear knows what each note should sound like, those filters need to be trusted. Practice, no set time, my improvements come through frustration and playing through that after analyzing why I'm frustrated. Usually an hour and a half to two hours.

Last night I finished the last poem in my poetry collection. I've always felt my writing was not good enough. Looking at an old phone full of notes, character concepts and plot points I realized how good I can actually write. My metaphors, physical descriptions and tone are all great. It took time for that to settle and firm over but the overall package of my words are ready for consumption. The blank page can be defeated just keep writing.

Confidence, standing up straight, saying I'm going all the way and limiting the amount of rap music i listen to. The biggest one is not settling and remembering my dream and how it feels to accomplish something every day. Without putting in work I feel like crap and there's no way out of that unless the work is done.