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Wellness Wednesday for April 15, 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).

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  1. Work. Working on only three things at a time which seems to be helping with the overwhelm. Still thinking about this job opportunity: if I take it I need to wrap up the PhD in the next few months.
  2. Fitness: 9 hours. Tapering a little this week for the Boston marathon which is Monday! Goal is a PR (sub 2:35:30)
  3. Intellectual Stuff: Italian class is ending, which I am happy about. Adopting the only three books at a time, and only one YouTube/Podcast and one substack/blog article a day is also helping.
  4. Finances: Talked to a financial advisor at my brokerage and he suggested that I should put money into individual bond funds rather than CDs (better liquidity and slightly better rates). Spending is low for this month, and we are working on finding a third roommate, which should ease my financial worries for the next year (if we don't find a third roommate, my rent will go up 50% at the beginning of June.
  5. Dating. Had a fun time hanging out with my friend Bella last night, but didn't and am not planning on making any romantic moves.
  6. Tarot. Great session with my ex-roommate when I asked about job stuff. The cards basically said to stop trying to please other people and do what I want to do
  7. Socializing: went to a board game bar with my lab. Will be hanging out with friends all weekend at the marathon.
  8. Screen time: 1.15 hours phone.
  9. Mental health: anxiety is 100% hunger-related. Haven't been the best about eating enough this week, so was quite anxious Friday-> Monday.