A gift from my HP...
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A gift from my HP...
I just had the most amazing... simply amazing thing happen to me!! As I mentioned last week (in the midst of my little pity-party), I have been distracted and unproductive at running the business. I was behingd on project deliverables and things were just taking me waaay longer than usual. I had lost a few clients... one hurt more than others. A company that I really enjoyed working with. They were good to me, really good... but they got annoyed, rightfully so, and at the end of February after I handed over my final report - they mentioned that they might need to find a different engineer.
I was okay with it, sad, but I understood. I was so ashamed... that I never sent the final bill. I didn't think my services were worth what I could rightfully bill them... so I sent no bill at all. A few weeks past, I called my contact there, left a message just wanting to check in on the report and see if all was okay.
No response. Dang. More shame and guilt dished out (by me!).
So... 2 months later, I'm sitting here working away. Slowly finding my groove again, when the phone rings - the number looked familiar but not quite. It was the lost client!!
He wanted to say that they finally got a chance to review the whole report - and it was very thoroughly done. Me (codie me), "Okay, what's missing?" "I didn't say anything was missing. I said it was thoroughly done, and no buts." He asked me how I was doing, and I came clean. He was shocked and sad, and said, "Man, on top of all the melanoma too?" He was great... we talked, caught back up, he reminded me that I owe him a bill and they'd like to get that settled up because they have other projects they want me to work on!
I needed that call. Thank you HP.
I was okay with it, sad, but I understood. I was so ashamed... that I never sent the final bill. I didn't think my services were worth what I could rightfully bill them... so I sent no bill at all. A few weeks past, I called my contact there, left a message just wanting to check in on the report and see if all was okay.
No response. Dang. More shame and guilt dished out (by me!).
So... 2 months later, I'm sitting here working away. Slowly finding my groove again, when the phone rings - the number looked familiar but not quite. It was the lost client!!
He wanted to say that they finally got a chance to review the whole report - and it was very thoroughly done. Me (codie me), "Okay, what's missing?" "I didn't say anything was missing. I said it was thoroughly done, and no buts." He asked me how I was doing, and I came clean. He was shocked and sad, and said, "Man, on top of all the melanoma too?" He was great... we talked, caught back up, he reminded me that I owe him a bill and they'd like to get that settled up because they have other projects they want me to work on!
I needed that call. Thank you HP.
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Our HP really does take good care of us, if we let him.
It's amazing the more I think about it... I was just sitting and thinking last night about $$$ and invoicing and was bumming about that contract! But, I didn't dwell on it and figure, "Oh well! He'll send me new clients. No worries!"
It's amazing the more I think about it... I was just sitting and thinking last night about $$$ and invoicing and was bumming about that contract! But, I didn't dwell on it and figure, "Oh well! He'll send me new clients. No worries!"
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Congratulations! My boss used to tell me, when my lack of confidence was showing, "You know more than you think you know."
And I can tell you, as one people-pleasing Codie to another: "You are far more competent than you think you are."
And I can tell you, as one people-pleasing Codie to another: "You are far more competent than you think you are."
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You know, I have always been my own worst enemy.
Always being harder on me than anyone else would ever be.
Have had some pretty bad episodes of 'just knowing' what
the client thought of me, yeah right and then come to find
out like you, that not only did they think my work was great,
they had an aunt/uncle/niece, etc that was going to need my
services also. (I had my own company, I did private home
care of the terminally ill and/or totally incapacitated for many
years).
The hardest thing for me to learn has been how NOT to be so
hard on me and stop being my worst critic.
But I can tell you it does GET BETTER, at least I have over the
years and I do not 'pick' on me near as much as I used to,
lmao
This will happen for you also GB.
Btw, what you described, I learned years ago is called
"A God Shot."
Love and hugs,
Always being harder on me than anyone else would ever be.
Have had some pretty bad episodes of 'just knowing' what
the client thought of me, yeah right and then come to find
out like you, that not only did they think my work was great,
they had an aunt/uncle/niece, etc that was going to need my
services also. (I had my own company, I did private home
care of the terminally ill and/or totally incapacitated for many
years).
The hardest thing for me to learn has been how NOT to be so
hard on me and stop being my worst critic.
But I can tell you it does GET BETTER, at least I have over the
years and I do not 'pick' on me near as much as I used to,
lmao
This will happen for you also GB.
Btw, what you described, I learned years ago is called
"A God Shot."
Love and hugs,
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When was in the thick of it with Mel, I mean the worst memories of that time, I was also starting a new job. Very demanding of my time and a lot of maintenance windows during the night time hours. Plus my day job didn't just stand still because I was working nights and going through a killer divorce.
Why are we tested like this?
What purpose does it serve?
Of course we can handle it.
Of course it gets better.
But WTF?
Why are we tested like this?
What purpose does it serve?
Of course we can handle it.
Of course it gets better.
But WTF?
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