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Wellness Wednesday for November 5, 2025

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:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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November Goals

  1. Want to try the “Getting Things Done” productivity system, which basically involves writing out all my to-dos in a notebook, and either doing them immediately or schedule them for a future time.
  2. I want to work on becoming less anxious. GTD should help with this, but quitting porn, limiting internet time, and discursive meditation should all help with this.
  3. Second half of November and first part of December will be time off from serious exercise. I’d like to use this time to rebuild metabolically, but also to do some of my other hobbies that I have neglected (guitar, dancing, reading) for a little bit. Will probably still aim for about 30 minutes a day of exercise, but no serious training. Before this I'll be running my age in miles on my birthday (28 on 11/19) and racing an 8k XC at Franklin Park.
  4. Ask out this girl that I've been hanging out with from swim. Lots of mixed signals if she's interested or not, but only one way to know for sure....