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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Only boring people are bored. There are simply very, very few things I cannot enjoy when with my wife or a close friend. If I don't like it naturally, I find a way to make myself like it. The idea that every experience in one's day will be perfectly to one's own taste is a modern conceit.
With few exceptions* my wife and I enjoy almost everything we do together. We're together, so that's nice. And I can find my own way to enjoy almost anything. My wife wanted to invite all her friends over to watch The Bachelor, which is distinctly not my kind of thing. So I found the autists out there doing sports-podcast Sabermetrics analysis of the episodes, and now I had my hook. How long did Madysyn's Hug-Jump last? How did her HuJu compare to Bryttunee's? Will this affect her odds of making the final four and Seeing Sand? I make her go hiking with me, she makes it fun for herself by picking out fun hiking outfits and aesthetics.
Though, in all honesty, I sometimes feel guilty about my relationship with Mrs. FiveHour, because intellectually I buy into the idea that modern marriages are asked to be entirely too much. But she genuinely is my best friend, and that's just how it is.
*colloquially referred to in our relationship as "Harbor Freighting" after my wife's reaction to being in a Harbor Freight store and being violently and instantly bored while I vaguely browsed buying solar panels or a house jack or something else I didn't need
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