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).
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
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There is no greater motivator than spite.
Some arsehole charted out a running route which spells out a political slogan, ran that route, then posted a screenshot of his Strava run on Instagram. A Facebook page I follow shared it, soying out over how "based" and "redpilled" he is. I pointed out that this is stupid performative virtue-signalling nonsense. Various people replied to me saying that I'm just envious that I'm not as good a runner as he is. I pointed out that I've completed three marathons with a PR of just under four hours, and also that this guy's stated pace (10km in 53:20) is not even particularly fast, and significantly slower than my PR for that distance. These people were incredulous. I was planning to go to the gym this afternoon anyway, so I dutifully hopped on the treadmill and ran 10k in 48 minutes exactly.
Mogged.
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