Today’s post will be short, but extremely sweet, like the con­cen­trated nectar of a thou­sand swollen straw­ber­ries. This is in oppo­si­tion to yesterday’s entry, which may­haps did not strike everyone’s fancy.

A friend of mine, Laura Mayer, recently launched some­thing she’s dubbed the How Are You Doing Project. The idea is simple: she wants to know how you’re doing. Really! Like, actu­ally, hon­estly, and truly! I know a lot of times people ask how you’re doing just to be polite or as a way of saying “hi”, but Laura is gen­uinely inter­ested in hear­ing how things are going.

To this end, she’s set up a toll-​free number where you can leave a voice mes­sage. She lis­tens to all the calls, and every few days she cre­ates a pod­cast out of the mes­sages people have left. Some­times she’ll focus on one par­tic­u­larly unique or inter­est­ing call; other times she’ll create a mon­tage of the­mat­i­cally related calls. Either way, it’s usu­ally pretty inter­est­ing times.

So call Laura up and tell her how your day has been! The number is 1-800-737-6045.

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