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Thanks for the good wishes. I have 80 odd days left. Or 80 even. Not sure.
Soak up the approval! If it keeps you going, absorb it. Writing is mostly solo, so hearing people like the work is good feedback. Ignore most of the negative stuff.
It's interesting how we deal with reactions. I take chances when I facilitate and many people like it and a few don't. Same workshop, same topic, but I'll still try various tweaks or variations. So I rarely got 5.0 stars. Out of a group of 30 people, say, 27 liked it and 2 had minor issues, and 1 hated it. My co-leaders would look at those 3 and work themselves into a tizzy: should we change the approach? I never liked how we did that 2nd exercise. Etc. I'll take in what feels right. Once I got a comment that I shouldn't talk over the reflection time and allow people to have silence to think. Spot on and I've not done that since.
But I, on the other hand, would say, 27/30 = 90%. OK. I have no idea what was going on in the lives of those 3 outliers. Difficult news from home? Just told they are being laid off? No bonus for the holidays? So I let them be.
At conferences I have some fun with this. I'll get started and when it's clear to a few people that my style isn't what they expected, some folks will quietly get up and leave. After they are clearly out of the room I say to the crowd, that's great because they probably won't fill out evaluations!
My day: Dealing with a MR BIV* problem. I was having trouble with wifi printing and top advice on one site was "reset" the printers. Ha! It's actually delete the printers! So, I've managed to get the corded printing to work for my computer. But that doesn't work for my partner's computer. And wifi printing works on neither one now. After a bath I'll take that up. As long as it takes. Putting on relaxing music and taking plenty of mental health breaks.
I was tired and thought the fix would be easy. Lessons: Proceed with caution. Just use the cord for a while and delay a better fix till rested and can take time to read up on how to deal with it. Consult the appropriate sub/reddit or other forums.
Annoyed with self. Just as I'm finishing up a rack of work I give myself this problem. Note to gremlins: back off. I've had more than a lifetime of problems, thank you very much.
* MR BIV = mistakes, redos, breakage, inefficiencies, and variations. Courtesy of Ritz-Carlton Hotels
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