God is looking out for me

An Issue Of The Chidera Peters Dispatch (CPD)

Hi ! 😁

I’ve been looking forward to writing this email all week and yes, I’m a bit excited today. I definitely feel way better than I did last week. On Thursday evening, I attended an event put together by Notion. I registered to attend particularly because Ali Abdaal was the keynote speaker, and I’m so glad I did! I got to see Ali Abdaal, sit next to him, and ask him for guidance regarding pivoting my channel’s content. He was gracious enough to share a few pointers, and afterwards, he gave me the email address of one of his Staff, telling me to send an email requesting FREE access to his Creatorpreneur course valued at $799. I almost started crying 🥺.

If you remember, in my previous email, I mentioned that I was saving up to buy this course because I knew it would be of great help. So you can imagine my joy getting free access without even asking; if this isn’t God looking out for me, then I don’t know what it is. Meeting Ali was the highlight of my week! I’ve already started the course, and I’m excited about the transformation that awaits me.

Ali Abdaal and a fan girl

👩🏽‍💻 What I worked on this week

I shot a video for my virtual speaking engagement at the Creatives International summit in Abuja, Nigeria. The feedback was amazing, apparently, my session was filled with lots of valuable life lessons. I also had to shoot some partnership content for my student community platform - the CP Community. And, of course, I also worked on my 9-5 job.

I had a meeting with my Community manager for the CP Community, where we created the month's content plan and reviewed the previous month's content insights, including identifying areas we can improve. I was supposed to launch my student membership by the end of September, but sadly that wasn’t ready before the deadline. I spent some time this week brainstorming on what platform to use, one that would support the features I need. But I’m not rushing it anymore; I’m pacing myself as I work towards a launch date.

I also logged out of my Instagram page; it was one of the things draining my energy. I’m taking time off to come up for air. I actually wanted to deactivate it but chose to log out instead. That way, if someone looks for my Instagram account, they can still find it. Don’t know when I’ll log back in as I don’t miss it.

💡What I’m learning

I watched a snippet of a TED talk that explained what the greatest contributors to longevity were i.e. what things or actions reduce our chances of dying the most. The research described looked at different factors - weight, diet, marital status, clean air, exercise, smoking habits, drinking etc. And the result was a shocker to me.

The top two predictors of how long we will live were features of our social lives :

i) Our close relationships

ii) Social integrations.

Basically, the quality of relationships we have and how often we interact with other humans are the greatest contributors to staying alive and living up to a hundred years old. I found this information interesting, and it was one of the reasons why I chose to attend an event this week to interact with people.

🤔 What’s on my mind

Honestly, I’ve been wondering why getting therapy is so expensive. As I mentioned in my last dispatch, I think I know I need Therapy. I’ve been stuck on the payment page, finding it difficult to proceed. Why do I have to spend my money?😭 The therapy sessions would cost me £214 for one month with the discount I got. I’ve been stalling on making the payment for days now. I’ve even been asking myself if I actually need it 😩. I’ll let you know if I finally pay for it by next week.

The other thing that’s been on my mind is the content direction for my channel. I’ve been thinking about the type of content I would do once I’m back from this break. It felt so weird to not put out a video today. It’s been such a long time since I had a weekend where I wasn’t editing or uploading a video to youtube. It feels really weird, but I need this space to find my why again.

✍🏽 Quote of the week

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing and be nothing

• Aristotle

See you same time next week! and thanks for reading ♥️.