Under Construction - MHWA Retreat

I have no issue with the main theme of this post: don't half-ass your entries. Don't do more than one task in one blog entry.

But at the bottom you say: "I understand that not every written task is going to connect with every member. I totally get that. But there's no improvement to be had by writing the task off as something you don't relate to and putting a minimally viable couple of sentences about it just to call it done."

Yet you require EVERY task to be well completed in order to earn a non exclusive merit badge. Which one would need to do three times in a twelve month period in order to get an exclusive group badge (which isn't even made yet... i don't think there's another one). Which essentially means we have to write about EVERY task if we aspire to earn a merit badge. Correct? So there really is no skipping a topic that doesn't pertain to you, speak to you, etc.

I am asking because I think the standards are too high to earn the eventual group badge. And I did say EARN. I do not like to get badges for donations, I refuse them.I don't like pity badges, or simply participation ones. I only like to EARN merit badges, I've always been this way. So you know, some of us are slow, and a little brain-wonky, like me. Others can join three blog groups and complete everything in each. I might be a bit too sensitive, but some of us are working hard on our mental health— even when we don't complete all the tasks in a month. And while I blog to get shit OUT, and I don't care about GPs per se, I do think you are stringent on the MBs. Which is okay, 'cause this is an awesome group of people and you're pretty awesome, too. But I have grumbled a couple of times about it to you here and there, and so I thought I'd share my thoughts since you asked. Kinda.

Your standards for yourself are so high I sometimes feel you project them onto the group, and it at times makes me feel like I really don't belong here. Am I not a serious enough blogger? Maybe I should focus on the Retreat forum instead of the Challenges? I don't often have self doubt, so I suppose I'm being a bit vulnerable here. None of this is said to piss you off, and no, you definitely can't please everyone all the time. Everyone seems to agree with you... yet there are many who I know are working here and cannot complete but maybe half the tasks. Maybe that's just life