Wow, another year has flown by rather quickly. I started getting my thoughts together in January. January 10th to be exact. As I started pondering whether or not to have a theme or to just wing-ding it, I kept getting nudged ever so gently with the word EMPATHY.
Ever since I started my cushie work-at-home job, on several different campaigns, the key word has been empathy. Companies build metrics around it and customer service surveys rely on it. I struggle with it.
Empathy is not something we automatically have as a personality trait. Life experience is where empathy comes from. Ten years of reviews at work and the key that I’m missing is showing more empathy. I’m one of those people who is quick to judge rather than trying to put myself in that person’s shoes and understand the situation. I admit it.
Hence my theme this year is the A-Z’s of EMPATHY. I’m not sure where it will lead me, but I am sure I will definitely learn something. I had planned to have all of my posts done ahead of time. As you can probably guess, that didn’t happen. This post is based off notes I wrote down back in January. Can you relate?
I’m looking forward to catching up with all my fellow bloggers, making some new acquaintances and having a fun time blogging about empathy for the month of April in the A-Z Challenge.
Cheers,
CRACKERBERRIES 
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Great topic! Looking forward to reading your posts. You have inspired me to give it a go this year!
pouringhope.blogspot.com
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Hi Barbara, great to see you participating again, and what an interesting subject you’ve chosen!
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Hi Barbie. We’ve met before in blog hops.
I’m curious about the a – z of Empathy.
I’m at https://artmater.com/blogging-from-a-to-z-april-challenge-2025
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What a great topic. I look forward to your posts. I’m a last-minute decider to play in this year’s challenge, and I definitely don’t have any posts written in advance.
https://deborah-weber.com/a-to-z-blogging-challenge-2025-theme-reveal/
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Looking forward to reading your empathy posts. I’ve changed my focus three times in the last week, so I can understand not having your posts written.
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Empathy is a great theme. I look forward to how you handle it A to Z.
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Great topic! I look forward to reading your posts. Barbie you’ve inspired me to start the challenge – I did it!
pouringhope.blogspot.com
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I’m glad to see you are doing the A to Z challenge again this year, Barbie.
I decided at the last minute to join in again this year.
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Empathy is a good topic. Sorely missing and much needed. I thought I’d be finished before April 1 also. Fortunately we still have a little over 2 weeks to go before we have to post.
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Oh yes! Great topic. Looking forward as always.
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Empathy is a great theme. We need it in spades in the current world situation. I’m interested to see what you come up with.
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