If you haven't tackled your depression first, most of the things you're doing are not only going to work ineffectively, they're not going to work at all, you'll become more miserable because you'll be reinforcing the wrong cognitive and behavioral patterns and mindsets, only further proving how you're not worth shit.
Setting yourself a mission is not going to help it. You'll be self-sabotaging it constantly.
Meditating won't work. You won't be able to create or keep your habit if you'll be constantly falling back into your old patterns of procrastination and self-defeating attitudes.
Lifting won't work. An example: I was a skinny 60kg guy who decided to go lift for a few months. For the first time I was consistent with it because of spreadsheet monitoring and everyday weight gain & calorie check. I've gained almost 12kg of mass, mostly lean, because I am a really thin guy (damn, once I get back into lifting, it's going to be easy for me to get that lean muscular look).
I was self-medicating myself with lifting. But when you're pouring water into a bottle with holes, yes, you can fill it if you double or triple or quadruple your efforts, but you're eventually going to burn out. Which is what happened - I've eventually became even more depressed, demotivated, unhappy, anxious and resentful towards myself than before I've started lifting. I've spiraled down eating 500-1000 calories everyday for the next following couple months and lost a lot of my mass. I haven't even checked my weight since then as it doesn't matter now - I have other, more important goals to focus on (finishing my Bachelor's and approaching women everyday), and most of you know that you can't focus on more than two goals at once. At least that's how it works (or rather doesn't, if I try more than 2 goals at the same time) for me.
I've been having great results with regards to my mood, attitude, self-esteem, happiness, confidence, emotional stability, impulsiveness and gratification-seeking behaviour thanks to CBT. In my Eastern European town of 40k we have no CBT therapists though. So I picked up "Feeling Good" by David Burns. I can't stress how much this book has been helping me, even with my half-assed, inconsistent effort, which have been becoming more and more serious and consistent with every page and every exercise that is in this book.
If you're on TRP it's highely likely you're depressed somewhat. If you're on a forum dedicated to sexual strategy it's highly likely you have low self-esteem, otherwise you wouldn't have that many problems with women.
If you've been struggling with applying red pilled advice in your life, try this book out. It's one of the very few things in my life that I can say about I've had consistent and replicable results with it because of its practical approach instead of talking how you should change your mindset (but not explaining how) or how you should raise your awareness (but later you find out that being aware of that you're doing something wrong doesn't work until you understand the problem fundamentally, which you have no tools for). It gave me tools.
Do meditate, but for the sake of meditating. It raises your awareness. It can aid depression, but it isn't its role. Don't meditate to lift yourself outside depression. Chances of it are against you.
Do lift, but for the sake of lifting. It can help your self-esteem and mood, but lifting's primary role is different. It's to look better, feel better and be a healthy man. Don't lift to alleviate your depression though. It can help, but it won't change your thinking patterns.
Do whatever you want to do or whatever your goal is, for the sake of it.
Do work on your depression though with tools that were created specifically for this purpose, and you'll see results.
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