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:
How goes it, @thejdizzler, @birb_cromble, @falling-star and @Tollund_Man4?
Alcohol: a bit better, I had a look at my budgeting app and despite all the free beers you get working in restaurants the cost over 3 months gave me more motivation to cut down.
Gaming: I've barely thought about it for at least a week.
Nicotine: the snus pouches are being banned in France in a few days and tobacco shops are running out of stock. It'll be a sharp withdrawal but the nanny state will do my work for me soon.
Overall I'm getting much better sleep, which was the overall goal in the first place. I have a questionably reliable guy promising me a job next month which would finally involve me not finishing work at 2am.
Good job on the alcohol. I know how hard it can be. Not paying for it is a good way to limit yourself, when you can't commit to pure sobriety (me). I'll still buy drinks when I'm out, but I don't pay for alcohol to keep at home anymore.
Thanks. I never had a habit of drinking at my place, my main problem is always being around bars due to work and the ease at which you can end up going for a pint to celebrate a difficult shift/a birthday/a friend visiting/another birthday/someone quitting work etc. All these once in a while events can add up to a lot.
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