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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One thing that personally helped me set goals was the Hamming Questions of the CFAR Participant Handbook. By asking myself certain questions I was able to find goals that were personally meaningful to me.
One goal I set for myself was to figure out why I had difficulty making/maintaining social connections. This goal caused me to read a lot of material and act on the new information that I learned. I still have a goal of improving my social connections and I'm constantly finding new actions I can take toward achieving this goal.
Another related goal I have is researching (including applied research) an obscure drug called Phenibut to determine how to personally benefit it from it while avoiding addiciton/tolerance.
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