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 would say to get into the habit of scheduling those kinds of activities. I’ve recently taken up fiction writing, just for fun, but one thing I’ve found is that even though I like doing it, it’s hard to actually get down to it unless I schedule it and block out the time. It doesn’t have to be hours and hours, just enough to get started. Write in a journal for 15 minutes before bed. Read for half an hour after dinner. Whatever it might be. Even working out. Work out MWF for a set time. You’ll do it.
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