[Electric Speed] Small but mighty mic | Finding a mentor

A note from Jane

When Mark and I were searching for a new home in a challenging market, it was agonizing to decide: Is this house the one? Is this as good as it gets? Should we wait and see what else comes on the market?

When we finally made our decision, it was hard (for me only) to stop looking at new properties even after we’d already committed. What if we had waited a bit longer? Would this other place have made us happier?

I recently ran across the following wisdom nugget from Chris Ballas: "The goal of adulthood is to let go of the other possible existences and to make the best of the one. A successful adult is one who understands that it doesn’t matter which life you ultimately pick, only that you live it well."

The next newsletter will be coming to you from our new place in Cincinnati.

After I mentioned Tales in the last issue of Electric Speed, Abigail Welborn wrote to tell me about Storyworth. She says, "You choose what questions to ask [and] Storyworth sends one question a week for 52 weeks to your gift recipient, who emails back their answers along with any pictures they want to include. The price includes a printed black & white book at the end (along with the opportunity to go through and edit again)."

In Abigail’s case, Storyworth was a gift for her mom: "She was so inspired that she then expanded on her (already detailed) answers for a family-only blog with scans of old photos that she discovered from her mom, my grandma, who was a Ukrainian refugee in WW2. Obviously it doesn’t work well for people who don’t like to write, but my mom reported that she appreciated being able to write the answer to one (relatively specific) question each week." Thank you, Abigail!

In the last issue, I asked you to tell me about your favorite online quiz makers. Aside from a suggestion to use Google Forms for such a purpose, I received one quiz-specific answer:

We’ve been using tryinteract.com for years and love it. Not only is the platform easy to use and customize, it also provides great analytics! —Dana Kaye

Other possible quiz tools: LeadQuizzes, OutGrow, Involve.me and Riddle

Next question: Do you use a drawing tablet? Let me know what you recommend. Hit reply to this email or share on Discord.

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