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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What are things that you could’ve started years earlier if you had only known about them/motivated yourself to do them, that improve your life?
I use a Tile tracker in my wallet, which helps me find it if I lose it around the house and more importantly if I lose it outside.
I have a morning checklist of stuff before I leave the house, including wallet, keys, brush teeth, etc.
I have the points apps for restaurants I use often, which effectively give 5% off food in addition to any coupons
I got a credit card and use it for my purchases to get cashback, and have it set up to auto-pay off from my chequing account
I use feedly, a RSS feed to keep track of blogs and comics I like
I use airpods instead of wired earbuds, and they’re a much nicer experience
I take a tiny bit of melatonin before bed
I have a habit instead of only ever putting down my keys and wallet in one place in my home. Thus, I never lose them.
I use Melatonin as well. I think that, without it, my natural sleep cycle is like a 26 hour day or so. If I went on without that or an alarm just going to sleep and waking up whenever felt natural, my cycle tends to drift later and later. Melatonin, taken a couple of hours before bed, seems to keep my sleep cycle synchronized with the actual daily cycle.
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