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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He's your man not mine, but have you tried getting to a deeper level, below what you both believe but why you believe it? I find I can accept people who believe things I don't more easily if I think they believe them for reasons I understand or respect. That can be so hard, when you feel like you've found the right person but some things don't work. All I'll say is that the delta between Right-Person>Wrong-Person can be so much bigger than almost anything else in your life that it outweighs almost everything else. The right partner is the most important decision you will ever make in your life.
Look, I figure everybody on here is basically like me so forgive me if I go astray, but I also found myself vocationally shipwrecked many years ago, unable to work in my field for reasons I won't go into. I got a "keep me alive" job to tide me over, something "beneath me" blue collar. In a year and a half I was running the place, and honestly it was the best job I ever had for joy. Above average intelligence and a modicum of conscientiousness is a superpower in the real world, go do whatever you want you can probably become at least moderately successful at it.
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