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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New year's resolutions check-in:
@thejdizzler, @birb_cromble and @oats_son: you're up.
Work: Been using the fact that flies are still growing up to tackle some long term analysis and presentations that I've been procrastinating. This is going pretty well, and highlighting that I need to wrap up experiments completely before moving on to something new. Have my committee meeting friday, which I generally feel prepared for.
Fitness: 9.5 hours last week. Huge breakthrough the weekend where I ran an 8k at 5:30 pace, and last night, where I did a tempo ladder ending at 4:40! Unlike last week got in this morning's session as well. In a good place with this: just need to make sure I don't start compromising aerobic volume as I build intensity going into Boston. Should be 11-12 hours this week.
Intellectual Stuff: About to finish Marx and enjoying Spinoza! Having trouble balancing Italian and Spanish, but this should get easier as my work calms down slightly.
Finances: Unexpected huge windfall. ZIM, an Israeli shipping company that's about 10% of my portfolio is going to be sold to a German shipping firm for $35/share. I bought at $19 a share, and have been accumulating extra shares through dividends, so will end up making around $3000 from this. Also got some cash back from PT, and spending is looking like it will be under $3k this month.
Dating: Masturbated once to porn this weekend, but removing stimulus has helped a lot. Decided firmly not to date right now.
Tarot: Really good session with my ex-roommate who's started a teaching job that he likes much more.
Socializing: Cooked tempura with my friend nick, and hosted track night Tuesday last night. Going to co-host a Chinese new year party soon.
Screen time: 1.5 hours.
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