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Wellness Wednesday for February 11, 2026

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).

Jump in the discussion.

No email address required.

  • I published my fourth blog post on Tuesday, a review of Tony Tulathimutte's sophomore novel Rejection (glad you enjoyed!). I was so busy on Monday that I fell a day behind my self-imposed deadline, but as we're in week 7 of 2025 and I've published four posts, I'm technically within the letter of my target of "at least one post every two weeks". I'll aim to publish the next post a day early to compensate. (Incidentally I meant to offer: if you'd like to send me a private link to your posts before they go live just to give them a spot-check, I'd be happy to.)
  • Went to the gym three times last week. Haven't yet gone this week as I was moving house, but planning to go this evening. Can deadlift 1.78x my bodyweight for 5 reps, squat .93x for 10 reps and bench press .75x for 9 reps.
  • Have not consumed any pornography since waking up on January 1st.
  • Have completed 7/11 modules in the SQL course.

Once I get settled into our new flat I want to finish the SQL course and start writing the next album, although I think I may need to get my guitar set up as I think there's a bad connection.

I will usually post them here first! Thanks for the offer though!