Snowflake Challenge 2026: Day 7

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Top 10 Challenge.

LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good. Expand as much or as little as you want.

I'm lagging behind with these, partly because I have busy evenings Mon-Fri, but it's nice to have a bit of time to think about the more difficult challenges, like this one.

So, three things I like about myself:

1. I've been told by several people at work that I'm very good at supporting, encouraging and training other people in that environment, that I'm a calming influence, and two different people told me over the last year that I'm responsible for them both choosing to stay in our team and actually enjoying their work.

2. I apparently have a nice speaking voice; I struggle a lot with accepting compliments, but I even got told this once at a convention by an actor I've seen in a fair number of tv shows. That didn't stop me apparently going very red when I met up with a couple of old friends for lunch recently, one of whom proudly told me that someone they had told to ring me for advice got in touch with them afterwards to say "you warned me that he'd make time to help even if it meant working ridiculously late, but you didn't warn me he has a voice like liquid caramel!"

3. Something I'm in the habit of doing when I go out is taking the time to chat with the people I interact with - which is why half the local bus drivers and posties know me, and why someone had to come and retrieve me from a conversation I was having with the print shop doing the VidUKon printing one year after I lost track of time catching up with the front of house manager there. It's something I try to do in part because I hated the way when I worked in a supermarket that the staff were largely treated as being fixtures rather than people by the customers. One of my closest friends took me back a little a couple of years ago when he remarked that I was the friendliest person he'd ever met, not just because I was happy chatting with bus drivers, checkout operators, random strangers in the Entertainer and the like, but because I gave the distinct impression that I'm actually interested in what they have to say.