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 have two separate sets of things, one of them are resolutions in the sense of some substantial change that I intend to make and the other are a set of fitness goals that aren't changes, but specific targets. I generally keep the resolutions imperfectly, but better than if I never thought about it at all. The New Year is a great time to reset and think, "what should I be doing differently?". One of mine this year was to read more books, and I have indeed done so. Probably not as much as I would like, which implies that if I want to do that again, I should put a specific target on it going forward, but still, this was directionally correct. On the fitness end, I'll be setting targets for total pushups on the year and total miles run on the year - I'm very motivated by specific numbers and delight in completing goals with big numbers assigned to them. I will also have goals for race times, but these are less directly controllable than just kind of an expectation-setting thing for the next year.
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