2018 Reboot

Many of us start off the new year with high hopes.  The new year is a perfect time to reassess things in our life and make adjustments.  Why are we already five weeks into the new year wrestling with old problems and having difficulty making new starts?  

Okay.  Let me speak for myself.  I have run into a few roadblocks.  As a result, I have fallen behind on projects and there was a domino effect on the rest of my obligations.  My phone tanked just before the new year.  To be more transparent, I have had a long standing storage problem on my phone.  I take a ton of pictures.  I have thousands of pictures on my phone that need to be backed up and organized.  I thought that failure to come up with a viable fix for my pictures was the immediate cause for the shutdown.  My coworker helped me identify my root cause.  I had an obsolete phone.  I had wasted way to much time trying to patch an out of date phone by deleting pics and apps.  In the interim, important messages and emails fell through the cracks.  Quite simply, I just needed another phone.  My new phone has gobs of memory for plenty of picture and I can keep all my apps on the phone!  

Then my laptop shut down.  It would not- could not connect to Wi-Fi.  Start up and switching between applications took a brutal amount of time.  I spent valuable time on the phone with tech support.  My laptop was approaching five years old.  It had served me well.  Again, quite simply, I needed another.  Making change and moving forward can difficult but inaction will wreck havoc.  I let it impact too may things for too long.  I tried to save money.  Instead, I wasted time and still had to pay money.

In the process of getting a new computer, I lost my camera's memory card.  I thought it was in the laptop that I returned and I found out today that it definitively does not exist at the store with the returned laptop.  On my end, that was the only logical place it could be.  It had all of my DSLR pics from Belize on it.  Haste had me careless.  It could have been worse.  I still have my camera.  Win.

All my technology is finally up and running and I am one happy gal.  Everything works together seamlessly and although the process was uncomfortable, the connectivity between my devices is way better than it was at any previous point.  There is always an element of discomfort in growth, but it is worth it.  Moving forward my efficiency should be much greater and I have a better back up system.  Win

Do not give up on your hopes for 2018.  Take a deep breath.  Begin again, today.  Persist.  Make it look easy.