I was asked if I am not at home and I am not on the range what I am doing? How can I be committed to my projects?
My initial response was almost rude but I thought about how best to deal with the question, particularly in the face of the last 13 months of things that have been said and emailed or sent on various platforms. In that time I have never once been rude, disrespectful or unkind, to the sender or the people who are ultimately responsible for the issues in broken promises – that I too have been victim of!
My replies have continued to show respect and support to those people and their businesses.
I have repeatedly explained that if you made plans based on promises and ideas given to you by someone we would have been mutually working with, their change of plans and how that impacts you is not my fault and I cannot answer questions that I do not have answers to. You need to contact that person.
So to send me a message today that basically states what I am going through is a suitable punishment for my perceived failure is really not ok, on any level and basic human empathy should prevent such a message even being sent!
Currently my time is spent Friday evening to Monday evening in Derbyshire providing the support that I am giving. I am working my paid employment Monday to Friday with some small tweaks to my shift patterns.
Integr8Archery is still a huge focus, I never stopped.
This week?
Wednesday 7:30 a meeting before work at a school with a willing level 2 coach to help me confirm my thoughts before we both started our paid employment at 9:30. Lunch time meeting to discuss ideas and send emails. Evening sending and replying to emails, arranging more meetings.
Thursday – 5:30 to 7:30 & 22:00 to 23:45 emails, letters, plans being drawn up and sent out.
Friday 2 telephone calls at 19:00 – 19:30
Saturday 7:00 blog update and 20:15 emails
Sunday 8:00 to 9:30 & 20:30 to 21:45 emails and telephone calls.
Monday 19:45 to 21:25 emails, messaging and telephone calls.
Tuesday 5:30 to 7:00 emails, 16:45 to 17:30 meeting with activity partnership, 19:00 to 20:00 meeting with club secretary re membership, sport80 and some future planning.
From my point of view it doesn’t look too bad for someone who isn’t interested, focused or can’t be seen!
I continue to be grateful to those who support me, daily help with projects and keeping me in the loop but I can trust their management whilst I do what my family needs.
I wish you all a safe week and all the best as I continue to do what I can for my business, club and projects.
