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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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, @Tollund_Man4 and @self_made_human?
After all the medical expenses and surprise home repairs have settled, spending is $1,039.65 higher than it was at the same point last year.
It's a little frustrating. I've cut my discretionary spending pretty deeply, and I can't seem to get ahead compared to last year.
Unfortunately:
I guess all I can really do for now is keep it up and hope I don't get any more big surprises this year, so my attempts at frugality overtake those expenses.
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No gym this week, but mostly because I was traveling for 48 hours and just started a new, extremely hectic job. I'll give myself a pass for once, but I intend to go tomorrow.
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Skipped this year's first longsword tournament because it was too expensive. Second tournament coming up this Saturday, and I kinda maybe ruined my shoulder in advance by overtraining in an unfit state, and/or getting smacked too hard too often (blame my half-hearted parries). Third tournament is in two weeks. Let's see how much of me ist left by then.
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Congrats, always a huge accomplishment.
Just reading up and seeing that we were both at Boston! Congrats, even though it wasn't the day you wanted, that's still a solid bit of late race management. I was ~10 minutes slower, a shade over 2 minutes positive split, and my quads have never felt so awful during a race that actually went pretty well. They weren't kidding about those downhills eventually adding up to quite the tax.
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Do you have a small ball to roll on?
Unfortunately not. There's probably one in my gym but I don't fancy going. Tempted to treat myself to a massage this evening.
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