Weirdly, I despise things like running, and yet I have, one time experienced runners high (many years ago).
It's a pretty interesting experience, and yet it wasn't enough to get me to enjoy running.
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De-prioritize ideas that don't make your life better. In his book 7 Habits, Stephen Covey presents the concept of Circle of Concern/Circle of Influence. Visualize them as concentric circles - if your Circle of Concern is larger than your Circle of Influence, you'll feel incessant stress at being unable to change things which you have concern for.
This is a way to look at the idea of identifying the things you can change, and what you can't.
Reduce your circle of concern to be within your circle of influence, as much as you can. For example, your concern about other's perspective on religion doesn't serve you. It doesn't help you, it doesn't make your life better, so why walk around worrying about it? It's not something you can actively change, so let it go. This is something I still have to practice, on an almost daily basis.
Wayne Dyer wrote a book about this idea - changing the way we think to remove these dysfunctional thought patterns - called Your Erroneous Zones. He essentially introduces Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques but in layman's language. He very much relies on this idea of Circle of Influence/Concern (without saying as much), as a guide to identifying the usefulness of our thoughts and ideas. It's an older book, probably in your local library, or on Amazon for a couple bucks. If nothing else, it teaches the fundamental ideas of CBT.
Everyone gets a different bag of crap in life, and most of the time we never see what the next person is dealing with. Accepting that this is normal is crucial to being able to "cope" as you put it. Also, having something to work toward, something that's meaningful to you, makes doing what's necessary less difficult, because it's part of something you want. For example, I was once in major debt (my own doing), while going to school. I spent a couple years working every hour I could to get out of that debt. This meant many nights where I slept only a few hours. It was brutal, but I was working towards something that was important to me.
Same reason I don't do a number of things with Linux - I don't have time to play fuck-fuck with tools lacking proper documentation and no clearly defined use-case, capabilities, and limitations.
Yep, I already wear glasses, would be awesome to have info projected inside them. Notifications from my calendar, for example. Reminders to take a med, an unobtrusive clock, results from a search, etc.
I just don't trust any of these companies to not use this tech to glean yet more data from me.
The problem is everyone is trying to make everyone else pay for improvements, using tools like this.
And then there are factions within each bloc that use these tools to further their agendas, that may/may not align with making actual improvements, and may be net negative.
As my grandfather used to say "it all depends on who's ox is getting gored".
Just reading the article (if it's to be trusted), international shipping accounts for 3% of worldwide carbon production. First, that means maybe we should put our efforts elsewhere first, to something with a greater percentage. Second, given we know any given ship uses tons of fuel per hour, maybe the carbon metric isn't very useful here.
And they stole this from Young Frankenstein, which got it from vaudeville. At least Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, and Richard Pryor knew where they got it from.
Worked with a plumber and HVAC guy for a summer. So much fun digging out septic systems.
The rest of the work sucked less by comparison. Crawling through 100%+ attics to fix A/C systems, or under a house to install/repair ducting. Some houses were so low you could just barely roll onto your side to work.
Fucking printers, right? (And copiers too).
Some of the worst tech I've ever dealt with.
Look at the new part and see how it mounts. That will help.
I suspect you have to remove that rubber trim on the left side to start with. Then it most likely just has some tabs that hold it in place.
I'd get a toolkit for interior trim work - these are plastic pry tools, designed to prevent damaging the interior plastic parts
What's the connection to someone struggling to learn to drive?
Because that's what I see, and frankly don't understand it. Today's cars are tremendously easier to drive than what I learned on, and you should see what my parents had to do to pass their tests, driving manual transmissions without synchronizers, having to start on a hill - smoothly, etc.
All I see here is someone who finds driving particularly difficult, like I find math particularly difficult, or some people find spelling or grammar particularly difficult.
If anything, I give OP credit for sticking with it and not giving up, despite the cost. It's really hard to keep trying when it feels like you're just always struggling.
Can't get past the trailers or previews. Awful.
Besides what others have said, there's also the angle of what you need.
Like vitamins or supplements are only useful for people who are deficient in those things. Perhaps you're just not wired for exercise to make a difference.
I despise working out. It's fucking boring as hell. Give me a mountain bike and I'll crank up hills and down until I can barely walk.