Fun thread @Liv !
1- Im Definitely a CDB to begin the day (5AM or earlier, no alarm needed), a quick check of the news and CC and Im off to the races, time to talk little and do much!!!!!
2- Stuff happens and you can't sweat it too much so I guess that makes me a BA when it comes to a little damage that a guest didn't mean to create, most things can be repaired quicker than it takes to worry and report to the mothership, bitchen, pissin and moaning aint fixin anything.
3- a CB for sure when it comes to vacationing, vacations to somewhere are scary and fraught with too many possible challenges and should be avoided at all costs! Every day is a work day, some are just different work than others. Fixing, building and other constructing is the fun that enriches my on days and most of my off ones as well. The U tube vids are prep and quick study for things I have no clue how to do that I need to do not just things and stuff in general.
4- BD when it comes to superhost, memorialize it with a cool project but I dont wanna just get it once, need get it always and make it better every time! Thats harder to do as the days go by but little things matter and my mantra will never be "This is the way we always do things here", thats a stagnation death blow I dont wish to reach.
5- Last but not least, Im BD on 5, Preparing the space to make its form presentable and functional is higher priority than getting the online listing perfect, tweaking the written details will come over time between projects that actually improve the guests stay! That said, I tweak or change our listings weekly and sometimes daily. Im not shy about stealing other hosts ideas and using them, i play search games often to see whats hitting and what isnt, thats a great rainy day thing to do and I try to sneak it in at least weekly.
Looks like I'm a BCD 'er , let me explain-
One of my favorite expressions is "There are no problems, Only solutions. It only becomes a problem when you run out of solutions." My Greek name if I had one would be "Solutious", fixing broken things and situations is my #1 talent, fixing people on the other hand is James Taylors job not mine (see handyman song), so #1 first and always, Im a B. My mom is/ was my inspiration, she was never limited by, "I don't know how to do something". She was widowed young with 3 young kids and a 200 year old 12 room home was in bad shape. She and we would gut 2 or 3 rooms every summer and rebuild them from scratch. Even before utube, she would figure out how to do it and get it done by asking pro friends and neighbors to tell her how to do it.
Someone once told me "Your so cheap you wouldn't pay a dime to watch Christ ride a Tricycle", thats probably true when it comes to me and DIY, why pay someone else to do what I can do for free? So my second objective is to wear as many hats per day as necessary which seems to fall into the C Zone. I try very hard not to wear any two at once, multi tasking with saws or hammers is dangerous and inadvisable! Drills and spills require two different JR's, one is John the Carpenter, the other is Johnny the Custodian, doing them both at once creates undesirable outcomes too often.
Lastly, Im a modified D when it comes to figuring stuff out, not brilliant for sure but creative and driven to find out how to do something Ive never done or better everything I do every time I do it. I find most everything I do has room for improvement and the answers are all out there as to how to do that even if I'm not actually all that smart or educated.
What I have found as an older person that spends very little time in a Barcalounger and isnt wealthy with cash (only practical knowledge ), life experiences are my greatest and most relevant Items in my Tool box and Larder, most of which Ive leaned from do-ers not teachers. Me in a nut shell, Stay well, JR