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:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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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.
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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.
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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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It didn't strike me as weird until they started putting cigarettes in featureless boxes and I saw that very few people really gave a shit what brand you smoked unless it was menthol or white ox (for the unfamiliar, it has a distinctive taste and odour that isn't that much worse than normal cigarettes, but is also the brand of choice of convicts, with associated social stigma) or one of those cheap Chinese brands that smell like an electrical fire in a peat bog. I know some people who are obsessed with status, and they still smoke benson and hedges or marlboros, but most people switched to something like chesterfields or parker and simpson to save $10.
I questioned a lot of the branded products I bought after that - does pepsi Max really taste better to me than coke zero or la ice or store-brand cola? (yes) Is xxxx gold any different to vb or coors it heineken? (nope) Do I have any appreciation for the expensive pour over coffee bags my brother sent me from the States over my breville dripper and a $5 bag of grounds? (nope). It's a good thing to do, I managed to cut about 15% out of my grocery budget with it, but I was pretty alarmed at how easily I had been led to believe branding was important.
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