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July 04, 2005
When things fall into place
This has been a great weekend and a fantastic start to a new week for me.
I managed to recover my pictures from my crashed hard drive, and I hope that music- and song recovery is next, and as successful.
While doing all this, I learnt to work the computer a bit. Not much probably, compared to the knowledge that exists in the Malaysian blogger scene. I have the feeling that there are plenty of bloggers out there that know way, way more than me. But I learnt that about the hard drive, how to connect and disconnect it. I reinstalled Windows XP, and it worked. My second hard drive runs just beautifully.
Small successes, but those are the ones that create momentum.
Yesterday, I bought a Surround System, basically phasing out my old Denon Player, which I purchased back in 1994, and which travelled with me to Indonesia and Singapore. This new system was huge - I nearly fall flat, when the sales people brought the boxes out. In the beginning I even had problems getting it into my Proton! And, WoW, so many cables and things to arrange. No more the easy installations that happened to be part of our life, back in the last century. But lucky, all the cables were coloured accordingly and that really helped!
Today, driving on the momentum, I had a fantastic time in the office, presenting some new proposals to my colleagues - a proposal regarding a training program for Personal Change and Improving Communication Styles, which has basically been accepted. Apart from this, I realised that I still have to change something here and there in the material, even so it wasn't obvious to those that participated in the presentation.
I don't know how you as the reader feel when you enter a terrain that is new to you and you feel uncertain about it.
I have my avoidance strategies, procrastinate and postpone, what needs to be done. When I get started, I do it slowly, carefully, with a feeling of uneasiness in my stomach, that is then suddenly replace by a growing feeling of anticipation and bombastic HURRAY, after the first successes.
Suddenly, everything goes right, and the feeling then carries through a long time. I am then happy, feel great and be overwhelmingly friendly.
The best thing is - I have, in the meantime, learnt, how to keep those feelings in me, and replicate them, when I need it. And that gives me additional power over me, in situation, when I really need to have this extra push of power.
Posted by Andreas at July 4, 2005 07:10 PM
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Yeah, our little successes inspire us to greater ones. My friends and I go through the same thing each semester, putting off our work and procrastinating for as long as we can. Then when we finally start working (late, late, late in the sem) every little bit of progress is like a breath of fresh air, giving that extra energy to carry on grinding. :D
Not the best way to go about our business, but whatever works I guess. Good to hear your HDD fiasco is clearing up!
Posted by: dinghy at July 5, 2005 02:46 AM
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