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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My job is stressful, we're almost two years into an enormous project and people are extremely touchy. I got way too angry today at something and even after making myself go for a drive and get some fresh air, I was driving back into the office park just seething. I realized I wasn't going to be able to make it through the day like that and engaged in a shockingly effective momentary reflection. It was just the simplest one minute stoic meditation. I said to myself that there is a higher mind, and there is an animal that is acting unskillfully due to thinking its emotions are important. There's no threat, being calm is advantageous. Not firing back a shitty email is advantageous. I realize that this is super basic but I guess why I'm writing it is I could actually feel the tension disappear all at once. I've tried to do similar things in the past but its like this time the rational mind actually spoke with authority and everything fell into line immediately. I walked back in completely cool.
Cultivate this skill and it can take you far.
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