Today my self-review is due. This is where I am supposed to turn into my boss a list of all my accomplishments I did this year. I hate it! You can tell how much I like it by the fact that I am writing this blog instead of completing it right now. I took my computer home over the weekend so I would do it but I instead dug up my broken sprinkler system and replaced the valves and timer so they work again. I would rather do manual labor than sit down and type up a self-congratulation list. It isn’t that I didn’t do a lot this year, I did. My team and I rocked it, I just hate writing this whole thing. It asks me whether I think I didn’t meet expectations all the way to far exceeds expectations. I feel it is like those surveys which ask you to rate one to five, sad to say I mostly fill in threes with an occasional two and four to make it not just the same. I think I would rather rate myself low and have my boss say I did better than that than rate myself high and have him tell me I did deserve that high a rating. So I am procrastinating but it won’t change the fact that I have to do it. The other side of this is I have a month to do the manager review for the eleven people who report to me. I subscribe to the old joke about marriage. The husband says I told you I loved you when we married and I will let you know if that ever changes. That doesn’t work for business and I don’t want to do what my old boss would do. He would copy what I wrote in my self-review into his manager review. That told me all I needed to know about the amount he cared about me and the process.