Questian and Nancy close out Season Two with Valerie Heckman, Accountant Community Manager at OnPay, and a deceptively simple idea: the “Ta-Da!” list. Instead of measuring your day by what’s left undone, what if you kept track of what you actually did? Valerie shares how this practice helped her interrupt burnout, why women in accounting are especially prone to dismissing their own wins, and how sharing those moments with others can change the culture of your firm. Although a Ta-Da list isn’t a cure-all, it is an effective tool that can shift how you end your day, how you see your work, and how you show up for each other. Because the little things? They're actually the big things.

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• (00:00) - Welcome to She Counts

• Connect with Valerie on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/valerieheckman/
• OnPay - https://onpay.com/about-us/author/valerie-heckman/
• Gretchen Rubin “Happier” podcast - https://gretchenrubin.com/podcasts/
• Lynnette Oss Connell on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynnette-oss-connell-cpa/
• Valerie Heckman at Scaling New Heights 2024 - https://report.woodard.com/articles/scaling-new-heights-2024-day-2-recap-snhwr
• Katie Helle on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mkatiehelle/
• Nancy Jacobson on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancyjacobsoncpa/
• DuoLingo accounting friends - 
  • https://www.duolingo.com/profile/KristenKea6
  • https://www.duolingo.com/profile/000752.beemH9GF
  • https://www.duolingo.com/profile/NayoCarterGray
• Gold star chart for adults - https://www.etsy.com/listing/4310943720/adult-star-chart-printable-habit-tracker
• “The Art of Blessing the Day” © 1999 by Marge Piercy - https://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/piercy/poem.html

Some scientific studies on how the Ta-Da list can be helpful for mental health:

• “Gratitude Enhances Health, Brings Happiness — and May Even Lengthen Lives,” Harvard Health - https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/gratitude-enhances-health-brings-happiness-and-may-even-lengthen-lives-202409113071
• Savoring in Positive Psychology: 21 Tools to Appreciate Life - https://positivepsychology.com/savoring/
• Contemporary self-reflective practices: A large-scale survey - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691822002839
• PERMA model of psychological well-being - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PERMA_model
  
  

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