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IT is the bane of my life!

The most wonderful tool to help me achieve more than I could ever have imagined and the heaviest and sharpest cross on my back.

Sometimes I feel like all I ever do is fix IT problems and never do any proper work.

A while ago we changed the platform that the blog was on to move it along, update it and make it more modern and user friendly in lots of ways. About that time I stopped getting emails to tell me that people had commented on the blog and it went completely out of my head and I never realised.

Marie came back to work (she is the original and ultimate blog editor) and she came to me the other day and said “what are you doing with all these people who have commented on your blog?”

I was horrified.

There are hundreds, there are pages and pages of comments and I’ve never taken the time to reply and say thanks.

I always did – I always got an email through and I would dictate something back to say “thanks very much for engaging on my blog, I really appreciate it” or engage in the discussion that was taking place.

So, I guess this is an apology because I still want to write the blog and I still want it to go every day, but as it gets a little bit bigger and as there is more interaction it will be harder for me to interact - but that doesn’t stop anybody else interacting on the blog or having a discussion in the comments.

I promise I’ll get to comments when I can and there is one heart wrenching one in particular that I need to reply back to really quickly. It’s not because I’m not grateful or amazed that people will take the time to interact with what I write.

The book of the year that I’ve read so far is called ‘Factfulness’ which was given to me by Shaun Sellars and he was right – it is a game changer.

Hans Rosling who wrote the book was a Doctor and in his early career worked in rural Africa. He realised very early on that if he spent the money he was spending in hospital by going out into the community he would save more children’s lives by stopping simple diseases early on and he could probably save ten times the amount of children than he was saving working actively in the hospital.

So he stopped treating people that came in to the hospital and went into the community.

One of his friends who was also a Doctor called him a murderer because people were turning up at the hospital and not getting treatment... but he was saving ten times the lives outside.

Obviously not as dramatic but in the same vein. It’s more important that I write and publish than it is that I interact with every comment. If I start to interact with the comments I won’t have time to publish, then the blog will stop and then ultimately there will be no one to comment.

I hope you understand.

Blog Post Number: 1713