

save money. make good choices that provide you with long term benefit, exercise your body and mind. ignore short term impulses and invest in yourself, not other people. build your future day by day, don’t hope that it magically comes one day.
and ignore other people. way too many people are obsessed with what other people think of them and trying to impress them, and that’s why they make themselves miserable doing shit that is harmful to their well being.
every miserable/anxious person i meet is always obsessing about what other people think about them and trying to impress strangers and feels like they are ‘struggling’ because they aren’t as rich as somebody else. constantly agonizing over this or that meaningless brass ring they are chasing that will just leave them seeking another one.

lemmy is small and tolerant of dissent. people are are more independent and they are forming tribes so much. as it gets bigger people will tolerate it less.
some of the instances however, are full of tribal nutcases who are only interested in being ideological pure. but the mostly keep to themselves, which is nice. though i will say it’s annoying ot have to constnatly block crap from the main page from this instances. when i first joined lemmy 60% of my general content was lgbt furry linux weirdos.