@Nural Seker How awesome! Maintaining muscle mass is very important, I've learned, especially as we continue to grow. Muscles are the currency of youth, as I heard. And I love how you noted you conquered resistance with your mindset shift, actually changing the active circuits in your brain. Those are such positive, powerful reference experiences, remembering how great you feel after a workout. Congratulations! 🎉 (Added my first gif. So many choices. Yeh, me!)

@Monica Smith Thanks for your thoughtful reply. It does help to have these things reflected back. So glad I could pass along that little decision tool. Recently, I'm most appreciating remembering how I've always, especially as a child, preferred to be kind.... (...no longer "nice" for the safety of approval, before I realized / learned the difference, and some learned through alleged relationships, I joke. I appreciate your point I read somewhere about learning about self through relationships, and that was another shocking truth, I joke some more...) And now, kindness with discernment, and no need to be kind to everyone. These revelations that not everyone deserves or even wants my brand of kindness was at first disturbing,... (Why wouldn't someone want to be given helpful information, to be appreciated, to be celebrated...? Oh. I did learn why, and admittedly too long with that counterintuitive "lesson" "No good deed goes unpunished.", I jest.) ...but ultimately freeing in many ways, thankfully. Happy Birthday and All the Celebratory Blessings To Be Thankful For! 🎉

@Nural Seker Whoa. Thanks for the warning if I ever visit Australia. Glad I was never one to touch things that looked friendly. But more than that, I'm commenting because I love Australia because you guys and the U.K. had the research I needed. At the time, the U.S. was fairly clueless and only recently is getting it. So now, I get excited and appreciative at any mention of the Down Under, feeling an Eternal, Global Thanks! And see, here again, I'm gaining valuable knowledge about the climate in Australia and octopi to avoid. (Those last three words are amusing me for some reason, with a nice ring to it, like the title of something funny.) Cheers!

@Monica Smith Such a funny gif, another new language to me. Why are they feeding that baby who clearly needed sleep more? That looks like slow narcolepsy, how I felt fighting sleep to reply to a personal email when I was overtired the other too-late night. I didn't win that one either, I joke. I guess it does make a great gif. It's the eye roll and looking like, I'm not having anymore, thanks. There's plenty on this tray I'm going to nap on.

As someone who doesn't traditionally all-out cook as some odd lifestyle choice (I know), to the point I've dated multiple men who cooked for me, and one even tried to teach me, I so understand. Honestly, reading your post with an experience so different from my own (still happily single, never any kids by wise, personal choice), I'm having much respect for what you're doing now, even as you sound like you think you're slacking or something. What you feel like doing now sounds like good, healthy eats to me, to share an alternative opinion. Thank you for feeding your family so well, please give yourself some grace, and batch cooking sounds like a grand idea. Even if some turns into lunch, that means you don't have to also make lunch. Cheers!

So much I'd say to that kid, even at 21, how green I still was. What comes to mind now is: Mistakes aren't actually fatal. To the contrary, they can be the most valuable data points to eventually succeeding. Then I'd have to present my stubborn, skeptical 21-year-old self with the research, I'm chuckling. Like how many false starts people who eventually succeeded encountered. Like the 10-years plus of hard work it took some to be an "overnight success." Like J.K Rowling's many God-given rejections before that gold of her lucrative franchise, etc.... Plus the various quotes about perceived "failure" being a net positive on finding out how NOT to do things. It's only a failure if one quits before getting to that gold, I feel. I do like how I've always been able to find a silver lining in any situation, enough to pivot and continue, and also, I like how I knew when to cut bait, too, as is said. That's a good start. My past self would've appreciated that counter argument to force-fed perfectionism, something I'm so glad I eventually outgrew. Thanks for this question to ponder.

I love this list, things like this. Thanks. While I knew about most of these, the cat music and calendar sync are new. I put events in individually from the calendar, so subscribing to sync might be something to check out. The host emoji change is also new, and I appreciated the explanation why that's relevant. My favorite is how Skool makes engagement a point-system game. For someone who sometimes doesn't understand social media etiquette (Autism), it was a clear expectation of how I could help others and myself. I say this because sometimes it felt like eavesdropping, wondering if it was odd for me to randomly respond, especially to conversations from months prior. The point system was like a permission slip to me and became why I like leveling people up, liking the posts and comments I encounter. Creates a sense of adding value to the community, which I like, and helps me feel supportive, which I love. It's funny that after discovering in one group that points unlocked different features, I was all in the community, liking people's posts and all the comments I read to earn the people points. One member commented on like every post, sometimes just an emoji, which I'm discovering like a new language, I joke as a trained Copywriter. That member was so far up the leaderboard, the second wasn't even close. I wondered how much time that took her, and I learned things from seeing how she moved in the community. But during that time, when I went to fb to engage, I felt a shift like a wee bit of disappointment, like, no one gets points for this? It reminded me of a psychology experiment where kids who loved to draw started getting gold stars or something for drawing. But when they eventually removed that reward system, the kids wound up drawing less without the anticipated reward, even though they initially liked to draw just to draw. I understood that feeling here, something that amused me about myself. Enhanced features are so fun. Perhaps I'll see what that the cat music is about. Thanks again.