I Appreciate a Sweet Note

I don’t have a boss. There is no HR department to give me a job review. I don’t even have any employees to do a 360° feed back with me. What I do have are students, but they don’t even have a rate my teacher app to give me a grade. What I do know is that my students are customers. Usually my true feed back is when people come back and take more classes from me or recommend me to their friends.

Now lots of my students say kind things to me, or tell me they like class. They aren’t getting grades so it is not brown nosing. But they are mostly well raised, kind southerners so they are programmed to be polite people.

Every once in a while someone will write me an email or a note and it is usually very heart felt. Now I know someone could write me a terrible note, and if they want to tell me some feed back, I would like to hear it. But when I get a really sweet note it means the world to me. These notes are the nicest job reviews I ever get.

This week as I was leaving class one student handed me a valentine card in a red envelope with some candy in it. I put it in my purse and opened it when I got home. It was such a dear sweet note that really touched me so. I have crossed her name out so her friends, if they read this, won’t know it was her. I don’t publish this to illicit compliments, but rather to say that going to the trouble to write me, is so meaningful to me. I really appreciate and cherish it.

I share this to encourage others to write notes to people you appreciate. It may be the only feed back they are getting and it is so joyful to hear when you delight people.