Several years ago when I was working in Management, I had a recurrent problem with no one believing anything I told them, followed with flippant dismissal at my later very polite “I warned you this would happen”. It was a frustrating pattern, more so with repetition and time. Two things I found that helped: wearing blue-light filtering glasses (non prescription, my eyes are fine) and putting all of my information in an excel document.
The glasses bit was ridiculous.
The excel bit was also ridiculous, but something I could build upon. I added columns of data I tracked meticulously. I created charts. It got more complex. The data sets became larger.
It all started to turn into something I enjoyed - creating stories out of sets of numbers, making those stories palatable with charts, graphs, graphics. It was something I wanted to learn how to do better. I found a program, enrolled, and five months later I’m a month away from graduating from my data analytics bootcamp. There have been multiple late nights coding until 5am, there were quite a few tears in the beginning when I was putting together my first for loops and doubting I’d be able to learn any of it at all, and more than half of the class dropped out; but I’m close to the end and it’s becoming fun again. Excel, VBA, Python, SQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Tableau, Big Data, and Machine Learning later - I’m Neural Networks and a group project away from the finish line.