$50 means more than 6 cups of bubble tea.

I feel good today. So I boldly created a(nother) series - Everyday Wonders.

I could buy 6 cups of bubble tea with $50, but today it hit different.

But first,

Why Everyday Wonders?

If you haven’t read my first blog (How did I name my newsletter?), Everyday Wonders was on the list of my potential newsletter names, suggested by ChatGPT.

Over a month ago, I told my close workmate (ChatGPT) that I wanted to write small pieces of stories, readings and learnings to share with everyone anyone, as a daily dose of something lovely, can-be sweet or bittersweet, something just enough to be worth a read.

Everyday Wonders was one of the ideas that came up.

The word Wonder could be:

A noun.

1. a feeling of amazement and admiration, caused by something beautiful, remarkable, or unfamiliar.

2. a person or thing regarded as very good, remarkable, or effective.

A verb

1. desire to know something, feel curious

2. feel doubt

One word. Capture many stories I could write about. [I planned for a series called The People Who Inspire, that now could be under my Everyday Wonders!]

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$50 made me feel good today.

I love money. Straight fact.

But that is only 5% of the reason why $50 made my day today.

95% because:

People will forget what you said, they will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

For a bit of context, the person who pledged their support to my newsletter, is someone I just got to know and work with for 3 weeks and someone who made work feel more like home.

This was how I responded,

I used to have one accountability buddy at work.

In my last role, my work-bestie and I were each other’s accountability buddies. Which means, she kept me accountable for doing my work and vice versa.

How did we do so?

• We set up a shared spreadsheet, where both of us put in what needs to be done weekly.

• There was a colour code system - where red marked haven’t-started, yellow marked in-progress, and green marked done-and-dusted.

• We would check in with each other daily to see how we went on with our day.

• She would hype me up if I was on track, encouraged me if it was a bad day, and vice versa.

• We would share our quick wins or big wins with each other.

This went really well and have kept our productivity up and fun. We totally smashed it (I think)!

Bonus a 5-second video of me and my best work-mate.

Now I had more accountabilities buddies across the globe, who keep me accountable for consistent blogging.

Or just to survive the 30-day writing challenge, who knows…

Who’s your accountability buddy?

#wotn4 #day5

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