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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I’m generally finding success with simple rules. Like because screens are a problem, I tend to treat any digital entertainment as if it were “furniture”. My suggestion is to offload as many of those “Cokes” to a desktop computer that lives in a single room. Do the same with video — have a designated big screen that you watch video on. What this does is force you to make a decision to do those things. If you have to go to the computer room or tge TV room to use those screens for those things, you have to leave the place where you are and go to the other room, and thus have to decide you want to do that over whatever else is going on.
This is kinda how old school tech wasn’t as hard to turn off in 1990. The miniaturization necessary to make a computer portable enough to be part of your EDC wasn’t there. The TV only worked when plugged into the wall and the cable box. This you were generally tied down to a situation where if you wanted to do a chat (AIM or Yahoo Chat were around in that era) you generally did so on the big family computer, and you could not do it anywhere else. If you wanted to go outside, you had to log off. If it was dinner time, you had to log out to go to the kitchen to eat.
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