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 dislike working during the day. This isn’t uncommon in finance, true the hours are bad but it’s a common meme that bankers rock up at 10, check their emails for 2 hours, go to lunch and the gym, then come back at 4 when the MD has comments and then work until 3am, rinse and repeat. Partially this is because bosses expect things they comment on before they go home to be ‘pls fix’ed by 9am the next morning, but it’s also because i think quite a few people don’t work well in the middle of the day. I’ve always worked best from maybe 4pm to 10pm (1am at a stretch), even at school and in college. I have stuff to do right now, but I’m here because I want to be, I don’t feel like working, I need the late afternoon panic to kick in (etc).
Another possibility is screen time. I can be really tired at 10pm, but if I decide to play videogames or watch a show and don’t fall asleep in the first ten minutes (which doesn’t happen) I’m often awake until the early hours.
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