DAY 2: I KNOW EVERYTHING! …. Or maybe not.

DAY 2: I KNOW EVERYTHING! …. Or maybe not.

Working as a Support Worker is very rewarding. What makes the job rewarding is how challenging it is to be an effective support worker. From my own personal experience, it hasn't been an easy job. I came into this work with the belief that I knew everything and this job has proven me wrong. It has helped me to identify the weaknesses that do exist within me that need to be strengthened. This is why it is so rewarding. Oh yeah, when I said it was rewarding, I don't mean the money, I meant the skills it requires, what you learn about yourself, the pressure you're under, the mistakes you make, the solution you have to come up with to assist/support you to be effective, the way it throws you into situations/events that you have never been in, the openness of the clients, the trickery of the clients, the games they will play, the words you have to live, the  moments of fun you get to experience learning about how someone else works, the experience you create for someone who may not have everything an abled body person may have and the reward at the end of the day is the knowledge about yourself and someone else to better perfect yourself to assist/support you to become the utmost in your job that you can possibly be. That is the rewarding part about being a Support Worker.

This job has helped me to realise that I do not know everything. That I still have a lot to learn, that I am no expert, that each day will teach me something different and new about myself and the client and at the end of the day… no one really knows everything. It is all down to the moments we have, what we learn and what we do with that knowledge/information at the end of the day. Let it go to waste… or write it out and use it to correct oneself into being/becoming an effective support worker.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that I know everything 

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to waste all the knowledge/information that I've learned in one full day about myself and client

I forgive myself that I haven't accepted and allowed myself to write out what I learn about myself and another client at the end of the day to assist/support myself to become effective.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to let information/knowledge go to waste

I forgive myself that I haven't accepted and allowed myself to see/realise/understand that writing out all the knowledge/information will help me become effective at my job because I'll be able to stabilize it, work with it and build upon it.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not see/realise/understand that writing is a beneficial way to stabilize what I've learned about myself and the client.

I forgive myself that I haven't accepted and allowed myself to see/realise/understand that writing case notes, what I've learned about myself and client, will assist/support me to build who I can be with my clients and to help with the rapport to access parts of my client that would not likely be accessed without moments of building rapport

I forgive myself that I haven't accepted and allowed myself to see/realise/understand the potential can be lived out if I am using all the tools and trusting myself with in my job.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to be slack in my job as a support worker.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to use the excuse ''But I've got it harder than all the other support workers'' to what holds me back from being the best I can be.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to use the excuse ''But I don't have car'' to exist within and as me.

I forgive myself that I haven't accepted and allowed myself to see/realise/understand that effective planning is part of being an effective support workers/human being.

When and as I see myself believing that I know everything - I stop and I breathe - I realise that not all situations/events, people, clients, support workers, or circumstances are the same. Everything is different, nothing ever remains the same, every moment is different and in each moment I will being learning something new, all I can do is trust myself in each moment, and make sure that I am working with knowledge/information that I have learned in training, from others, from past moments, and use it in a best for all way to assist/support me as a support worker.

When and as I see myself making excuses to not do what I know will help me to be an effective support worker - I stop and I breathe - I realise that the way to make my job the best it can be for myself and the clients is to make sure that how I've created myself is to the best of my ability and so effective in my work performance.

I commit myself to write out knowledge/information that I learn about myself and my clients at the end of the day to assist/support in keeping up-to-date on what is happening for my clients and what needs changing about myself.

I commit myself to educate myself to become an effective support worker.