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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Yeah, I'm not sure sucking forever at something you never get better at as a hobby is quite the "building character" Calvin's Dad is always talking about. I mean, if it's something you love, suck away. But otherwise, at a certain point you have to assess if this is a proper use of your limited time on this Earth. "Building character" is only useful when it's overcoming temporary hardship, or going nose to the grindstone for truly necessary hardship. Not for doing something you aren't enjoying and suck at recreationally.
It sucks getting old. I'm not quite to the point where exercise goes from hitting new personal bests, to just trying to slow the inevitable decline and doing it because you have to. But it's within sight. I hope I can maintain my discipline when year by year I'm capable of doing less and less. I hope that inflection point could be 50, or even 55. I'm afraid it could be 45 (I'm 42) or sooner.
Simple, constantly contest new events, inventing them yourself if necessary!
I see you have also discovered the speedrunning community.
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This is the way.
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