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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I'm 56 and just started a month or two ago an exercise regimen that has already shown results. It consists of 3/4 workouts per week, starting with purely bodyweight (ie no equipment needed though a bar to do pullups helps). I am revisiting French and have made progress such that recently I could have a conversation with two separate French people (not talking about Sartre, but still). I suck at piano but am learning some songs that sound halfway decent. My point here is "too old" is a term relative to your state of mind. I will never again outrun my son (but I'm not supposed to at this point) but I can still run, goddamit.
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