Join me on my earnest endeavour towards heartfulness in Heartstrings, a newsletter sprinkled with ideas of storytelling, nerdy science stuff, and simple life observations that warm my heart.
Hello you, happy Saturday!
I hope your week went by productively and you're gearing up to a well-deserved weekend.
So I did a thing. A few things, actually.
ONE.
Remember I mentioned a project about dealing with pesky student loans last week?
Yeah, I created this post on my personal website.
For accountability and also for tracking purposes. In it, I've also documented some money rules I created for myself to follow in 2022.
All that to say.. feel free to call me out if you see me breaking any of those rules in 2022.
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I'll regularly keep you updated on my progress.
TWO.
This newsletter didn't start out as Heartstrings.
It started as my attempt to share life updates, and somewhere along the way pivoted into a platform for me to share tips on public speaking and presentation skills. You may have subscribed for the latter.
I know I haven't been fulfilling my end of the bargain for quite some time now.
For that, I am really sorry.
I'm tremendously grateful that you've been with me on this journey of discovery and reinvention. But beyond that, I know I can do better.
That is why, I have something brewing behind the scenes. And I humbly ask for your kind and honest feedback on it.
You see, I'm building a new site to house everything I know about storytelling, public speaking and communicating more effectively - both written and spoken. (I'll go into greater detail in future newsletters on why I decided to create a separate site from my personal one.)
I wrote something for the About page and it's.. different.
It's not what you'll expect from a regular website/blog looking to teach and share.
BUT I had a ton of fun crafting the idea and writing it out. That's important to me.
What's more important to me, is that readers will benefit from what I have to share too!
Will you please help me out?
Honest feedback required.
​Here's a Google Doc of the rough draft to the new homepage. It's only 150 words short.
I'm requesting feedback on:
Feel free to comment right in the Doc. If you prefer, you can "Reply" to this email as well.
I deeply appreciate every single thought and comment.
And I hope you don't hold back.
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With hope, joy and love,
Mich
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P.S. If you have 5-minutes to spare today, I would greatly appreciate it if you read 150 words here and share your thoughts.
Join me on my earnest endeavour towards heartfulness in Heartstrings, a newsletter sprinkled with ideas of storytelling, nerdy science stuff, and simple life observations that warm my heart.
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