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Marielle Segarra (0:00)
This message comes from Whole Foods Market. Save on tropical flavors during the Savor the Tropics event. With yellow sale signs throughout the store. Stock up on juicy pineapples and mangoes. Grab Huli Huli chicken and finish with mango Uzi Chantilly cake at Whole Foods Market. You're listening to Life Kit from npr. Hey, everybody, it's Marielle. It's a classic story. We set these big resolutions on New Year's Eve and then drop them by mid January. And this happens throughout the year, too. We have goals, but life and our routines and habits get in the way. One thing that can help is the buddy system. Francisco Ramirez, who lives in New York, kind of intuitively knew he needed this. He has this stuffed animal rabbit that he keeps on his desk.
Francisco Ramirez (0:52)
This is Memo. Memo the rabbit.
Marielle Segarra (0:54)
Actually, he calls it Memo the high five rabbit. Because for a while, every time he finished a task, I would give Memo
Francisco Ramirez (0:59)
a high five and we'd celebrate. I had other versions of this with a paper squirrel. I did all sorts of fun sort
Marielle Segarra (1:07)
of motivating tools, but an inanimate object could only provide so much support.
Francisco Ramirez (1:13)
So I remember specifically searching high and low for something that would connect me to somebody who wasn't a stuffed animal or a paper squirrel.
Marielle Segarra (1:22)
Francisco started searching for real life human accountability buddies. An accountability buddy is someone who you partner with to work on goals together. This can look a lot of different ways. You can know the person before or not you can be working towards the same goals or different ones. But what we've heard over and over again is the buddy system works for people, keeps them accountable and motivated. People like Leah Shaffer, who lives outside of Houston.
Leah Shaffer (1:48)
I would sit there in our Zoom meetings and think, I should, quote, unquote, should be able to do this alone. But there is some kind of, like, there's some magic in it. Like, it's. I highly recommend it.
Marielle Segarra (1:58)
On this episode of Life Kit, Accountability buddies or partners, what they are, how you can find one, what to look for in this kind of relationship, and how to set yourselves up for success. This message comes from Whole Foods Market. Save on tropical flavors at Whole Foods Market during the Savor the Tropics event. With yellow sale signs highlighting seasonal finds throughout the store. The produce section is bursting with pineapples, mangoes and kiwis at their juiciest grill up fresh seafood paired with tropical fruit marinades. Or grab and enjoy the spicy Hawaiian pizza, Huli huli chicken and more. Finish with a sweet slice of mango yuzu, Chantilly cake. Savor the tropics and save at Whole Foods Market.
