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My word: Take up one good thing a month and do it every day for 31 days

I once forgot my phone at home and while I was in the bus, I realised I had left my only phone on the kitchen counter. So I absentmindedly told myself I would simply take my phone and call my househelp to tell her I had forgotten my phone at home and she should pick it up if she saw my mom calling. And then I realised what I had just done and I was stifling laughter all the way to work.

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