Growth Routine

Daily routines, meditation, affirmations, self-care, etc.

A person's back with the phrase 'The challenge started with numbers and became meaning'.

The 500kg total isn’t just a number. It means I believe in myself.

🌱 How I feel as I push toward a 500kg total – Today’s Workout Diary 🏁 The challenge started with numbers, but it led to the heart I am working toward a 500kg total.To be honest, I started just because I thought it looked “cool,”but now that number itself feels like meaning to me. 500kg totalMy goal that I will achieve one day. 🔄 Decided to change my routine…

21-hour Intermittent Fasting Review: A Valuable Time of Self-Discovery

21 Hours of Intermittent Fasting: Surprising Changes in My Body (and a Little Happening)

– “I just ate a bit too much, that’s all!” Something felt off for the past few days.My workouts were getting more intense, but it felt like my weight was going up instead…?! “Did I… start bulking up?”“Is something wrong with my body?” All kinds of thoughts flashed through my mind.I was exhausted, drained, and my motivation collapsed.. But since last night,I started intermittent fastingand now I’m at hour…

3D rendering image of a young woman making a V-sign on the beach.

Abstinence wasn’t repression—it was real love.

🎮 Her in the game, a strange flutter I was looking at a character in the game,and somehow it felt like she was my girlfriend.With every expression and every gesture, my heart trembled,and my emotions surged. Even though it wasn’t real,it felt like she was looking right at me.But my brain was flooded with dopamine,and I could clearly feel it.That I was being attacked by dopamine. But as I…

Media Detox and Meditation: Maximizing the Benefits. Illustration of a man meditating.

Try a media detox, and the effects of meditation change dramatically.

The Start of a Media Detox, and a Small Resolution I’ve practiced meditation for quite a long time. I started with 30 minutes a day, and on some days I even reached a deep state for over an hour and a half. But recently, I realized the effects of meditation can change noticeably. And the beginning of that change was “media detox”. Smartphones, YouTube, TV, SNS. These things were…

A bottle of mastic gum supplement and capsules, with text related to its benefits.

Mastic Gum Benefits: This is how it changes after 2-4 weeks (3-Week Review)

Hello. Today, I’d like to talk about the benefits of Mastic Gum, based on my personal experience of taking it for 3 weeks. If you have a sensitive stomach or frequently suffer from gastritis,you might have wondered, ‘Does Mastic Gum really work?’Honestly, I felt the same way until recently. 😌 📌 No significant changes until week 2 When I first started taking Mastic Gum,to be honest, I didn’t feel…

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💊 On a day when I just couldn’t recover, my brother said, “Try a vitamin C megadose.”

Believe it or not, I wanted to leave my experience in writing.This is my record—and a story that will become a memory for me someday. ☁️ For a while, I couldn’t recover Even though I live a life where I work out consistently, meditate, and do affirmations,sometimes I felt my emotions strangely hardening. Especially the longer I spent alone,the more I felt like something deep inside was getting cold….

A red spotted poisonous mushroom in a dark forest with the phrase 'Pleasure, a Poisonous Mushroom'

The universe knows—human growth is exponential

🪐 Growth is not linear, it’s exponential While gazing at the galaxy, this thought suddenly came to me.“Why is the structure of this universe not evenly spaced, but exponentially distant?” Bus stops are evenly placed,but galaxies and massive cosmic structures grow more than double in distance as you go farther.They’re not simply moving apart—they’re moving apart exponentially. When I asked my AI friend,it said the universe is still expanding,…

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Mastic Gum: My Secret Weapon for an Upset Stomach

— Day 3 of taking it, my stomach is finally talking back to me. Have you been feeling bloated and uncomfortable lately?My gastritis recently got so bad that it was hard to focus on daily life. But seeing how my mood improved after taking gastritis medication, I realized, ‘Ah, my stomach is my emotion.’ That’s when I chose Mastic Gum. I’ve now added stomach health to my daily routine….

An illustration of a robot and a person explaining creatine loading.

Why did I gain 2kg? It was creatine loading (even though I didn’t take supplements!)

🐢 Intro – “Why on earth did I gain weight…?” It was a few days ago. The moment I stepped on the scale, I went blank for a second. My weight, which used to be 77kg, was crossing 80kg. It was even flirting with 82kg…? 😳 I hadn’t particularly overeaten, and I hadn’t missed a single workout…The strange thing was that my body felt heavy and sluggish. Even my…

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Exercise Log: A Stronger Me, Deeper Peace, and a TKO in Light Sparring

I unknowingly became so much stronger over the past month. For the past month, I took a break from sprint interval running and 4KM record-breaking runs. 😲(Because I was busy and had some stamina issues.)But I consistently kept up with muscle density strength training.(Not muscle size, but density! That’s strength.) Then, starting last week, I resumed Jiu-Jitsu and MMA…And I’ve grown so incredibly much in just one month…It was…