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Wellness Wednesday for August 28, 2024

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

  • Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.

  • Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.

  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

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Are there speed dating events in your area? shuffle has been alright the twice I've done it.

twice

can't have worked that well eyy

No but for real that's something I never considered. Thanks. My first reaction was "damn, I'd feel like a loser showing up alone" and then I thought about it for like three more seconds.

I'm a big fan of speed dating, but it's not for everyone. I've got friends that were happy to meet girls out at bars but for some reason shied away from speed dating or otherwise didn't get good results.

Meetup singles groups are another good alternative where you can vet potential partners in real life. I always find in real life opportunities to be better as you don't risk wasting time investing hours pre-meet only to disqualify them the instant you see them in person..