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 resolution check-in:
How goes it @self_made_human, @thejdizzler, @birb_cromble, @ThomasdelVasto and @falling-star?
I've barely been drinking, I went out twice in June and not at all so far this month. I moved into a new apartment and work is picking up so I've just been too busy and it's way too hot in France to get away with a hangover at work.
The physicality of working in a kitchen is getting to me a bit, I'm decently fit so there's no joint pain but I'm going to go to the doctor and buy new shoes because when I get up and take the first few steps in the morning my feet feel like they're bruised.
Long term things are looking good. I'm working at a high enough level now that I'm pretty confident I could ask for a better wage soon, the head chef disappeared for a month to cover for an emergency at the owner's other restaurant and me and the sous-chef are managing just fine.
When I worked in a hotel, rubber or gel insoles were a godsend.
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