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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Steps 3 and 5 are related, in opposite directions: overanalysing. I lose more time perfecting certain things than I could ever gain through perfection. 2 dollars is not a cost worth optimizing. I calculate my hourly wage for most optimizations and it's usually pitiful.
Similarly, I decide to stick to my schedule not because it's the best schedule ever, but because I don't want to put a few dozen 10-minutes 'is this the best schedule for the circumstances?' brainstorming sessions into my schedule. YMMV, but I have enough difficulty sticking to a schedule in the first place, I don't need the additional excuse for sitting around not doing it because it's no longer perfectly aligned with the ticker tape. Some people definitely don't optimize enough. But I'm never at risk of falling into that particular trap, because I'm always jumping into the other.
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