How And Why I Smashed It Today

Although I’m exhausted, and I’m really tired, I just wanted to reflect on what I did well today. Because today I did really well. I today I smashed it. So how did it go? Well let’s see

• I was asked to add quite a big feature to an existing ticket and I am so so happy I knocked it out the park
• I added tests for it as well
• So today:
• I finished the ticket I was working on anyway, fixing mypy and pytest issues, changing loads of models
• I added the whole new feature
• I added all the new tests
• I wrote up two new tickets
• I compared the outputs of two big functions
• I started investigating a new problem

I just really ploughed on with stuff. I stayed focus.

One more time please Susanna. I:

• Made a to do list this morning on the bus and stuck to it
• Only focused on my software engineering tickets
• Dealt with challenges - spent ages fixing one or two errors and was resilient
• Learned lots about how to show types in mypy
• Learned about what different Django ORM methods do
• Just “ran”; always having the next goal in mind, onto the next thing

Code is the main focus.

And remember:

1. Making a to do list first thing
2. Being resilient and dealing with setbacks
3. Saying yes to whatever comes up - boss asks for a new feature, a new ticket - no problem - I can handle it
4. Using my reflective journal
5. Powering on
6. Pushing through
7. Pushing on
8. Being resilient 
9. Staying focused
10. Just getting on with things
11. Running
12. Run run run you better run
13. Remembering that code is the only focus point 
14. Keeping on going
15. Asking for help when I needed it
16. But also finding how often I could fix it myself
17. The next step the next step thinking about it always always the next step

That is how and why I smashed it today

Thank you thank you I love you thank you 🇺🇸 bye

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