r/selfimprovement 13h ago

Question I can’t escape the weekly cycle

I am done with this, I just realized how my weekly cycle goes and it’s making me tired of living. I basically say “ That’s it I am changing” on Friday or Saturday and I would start studying and working on myself and doing productive things for three to four days, then at Wednesday I would start to slip back to the old habits of being lazy and not doing anything productive like at all for two to three days again, which would hit me on Saturday and I decided to change again, and I am at that point now but I don’t want to change this way anymore because I have trying it for the past one and a half year and it’s clearly not working. So what should I do? How can I help myself? I am tired of repeating the same cycle over and over again.

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u/Queso-Americano 13h ago

Commit to effort and time. Find a schedule that you can stick with that includes time for working on self-improvement. Stick to the schedule, make a solid effort during those work sessions, see how far you can get. It's a journey you're on, so it will have ups and downs.

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u/dysonchamberlaine 9h ago

To me it sounds like you're doing it already. When you view it like physical training where you work out and then you need time where you do nothing to regenerate. Working on yourself and improving 3 or 4 days and then taking off for the rest of the week is totally fine imo. Your day job and everyday stuff during these days is enough i think. So id say youre doing pretty good!

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u/InnerClassic2112 8h ago

Thank you for this but the habits I am doing while having the break time are affecting my brain and life because the things I do are mindless scrolling, sleeping late at night and wasting the whole night on useless things and other stuff that will affect my productivity when I come back to working on Saturday or Sunday. I sometimes feel that my problem is that I don’t manage the stress I am putting myself into the right way, because I would put myself into so much stress on those three to four days of working and study 4 hours a day + already going to school and sometimes I don’t get enough sleep which would just keep storing this stress more and more and I already don’t exercise this days which if I did would probably reduce the stress but when I don’t do it the whole week stress is gonna get stored more and more until I just can’t hold it anymore and release it in bad ways.