I LOVE THE NEW EX. With all the new windows, doors and bigger closets and younger folk to help. If you look around the new members are getting younger. Maybe we have an opportunity to save them instead of them waiting until they are our age to quit. It isn't always about US!!!! Think about the young lives we can help save if we just have a willingness to let go of the old and learn relearn the new.
Thank you for your response. I appreciate it. There is nothing wrong with "feeling like home" but there is a greater purpose and calling.
Yes there is a greater cause and that is why they haven't left even though they are having difficulty finding there way around. I welcome the new EX. I love change. we need change. I love that it is reaching out to the younger folks that is awesome!
I'm TRYING, I promise, I am giving this my best shot, my best shot might not be as strong or accurate at it used to be. I have a rough time with any changes...when I started working at my son's cafe, I cried myself to sleep every night. For heaven's sake, I am a retired nurse it's not like people died if I made a mistake at the cafe, I am just really impatient with my slower rate of learning, I need to do a data dump from my head because there are too many things in there. I am on system overload. I am thrilled that some people really like the new site and I want to be one of you...I just might take longer than I want to. I am pretty comfortable with the cafe now, unless they decide that they each want to direct me to a different way to do things. I take copious notes when I learn a new job or a new program, I am relentless when it comes to my performance. I had a law student come in two weeks after I started and he knew me from when I worked at the school. He told me there was no way he could have learned that program as well as he thought I had in two weeks...he told me to please be kind and patient with myself. I'm learning that too. The friendlier this place is to new people, the better. Let's face it, the new people keep us all going and give us a new way to help.
Thanks, Lady J, you are clearly the classic overachiever! Is there anything you don't excel at? Seriously, I am not being sarcastic, you are one amazingly smart lady.
Thanks for this post Jackie, I am getting used to all of the changes, one day at a time I've been frustrated at times especially in the first week of being in this new platform but I'm still here for each and everyone of us Exers but mostly I'm still here for the people that are on the fence about quitting for the folks that just set a quit date or for the one's just starting their quit journey, for the folks that are struggling and for all of the wonderful Exers celebrating milestones and for you my friends and fellow Exers and for me because I want to see everyone Free from this horrid addiction ....JACKIE1-25-15
Look you ladies, like I was telling Jennifer earlier, we are doing our best, and with the best intentions.
You know I have been involved with the EX-Café and just posted a welcome new members with a beautiful lounge pic.
BTW, Jennifer I am giving you credit for the list of New members there :-), and Pati is telling me she got a pop up the pic of the lounge is linked to some dangerous site...I had to email Mark to ask him to remove it :-( How am I supposed to know before I post it??? We all post pics from the web, right, shouldn't this website have some security stops, and prevent me for posting anything dangerous??? So, you see Ellen, you have no reason to be upset, we are all learning, some easier, some harder...
It was all with good intentions and I spent so much time at the Café, even if I am just the floating employee, trying to step up when the main was busy, away, and so on, trying to advertise, find the new members, find a way to welcome them, staying late, and answering when no one else was around...and now I made a ups....how am I going to fix it??? I'll figure out a way...sorry, I just can't stop...
Thank you for your support. We always have Mark willing and able to help whenever and where ever he can.
JACKIE1-25-15 wrote:
Thank you for your support. We always have Mark willing and able to help whenever and where ever he can.
This is ABSOLUTELY true!
Mark
EX Community Manager
Jackie I was just thinking as I was reading the comments how a new site is like a new quit !
At first our quit it is very uncomfortable and we do not feel "at home " in our own bodies then as we learn to live without the sickerettes gradually it becomes easier and we begin to like the new changes and eventually we feel at home again !
This new platform is a change but already many of us are beginning to like many of the changes and even the ones we don't like so much are not so uncomfortable anymore .
I can finally post a graphic or a picture it is so much easier and i can edit my comments if i make an error !
I do think the young people who are computer savvy will not find it difficult to navigate especially if they were never even on the old one .
Change keeps us Young at least in our minds !
Thanks Jackie for this discussion !
Thank you for your kind words of wisdom foresight love and understanding. Something that needed right now.
And we all know it, thank you Mark for all your help, at all times of the day or night, we really appreciate it!
I totally agree Jackie.....especially with hoping people quit at younger and younger ages.
But just one point.....our questions.....at least my questions....do not denote that I am not happy with the site. I'm just trying to understand my way around as well as find out where things are and how they work. You may be quicker at learning that than I am (most people are!!!). But just cuz we question doesn't mean we are unhappy. Indeed, I think it is those who decide they are "done" , ask no questions and leave who are the problem.
Thanks for the discussion....it was a good one.
Thank you for your comment. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts. Questions are always good. I have asked my share since I have been here. I in no way was referring to questions. I learned the dumbest question is the one not asked.
on Feb 9, 2017
Absolutely! I believe they are getting used to the change Jackie some just find it more difficult to go through the change but they know how important quitting is and are trying and are adapting! This will feel like home again.