by Aileen Journey

I had some major technical difficulties this week and last week. First, I was trying to update this blog which has been live for a couple of years and my database got corrupted and I’ve lost all my old posts and second I was trying to get some things printed for my new business and the printer, which has always worked fine, wouldn’t work at all.

I felt completely halted. I felt like I could hardly do the things that weren’t even frustrating. Part of the problem was that I would never be able to cross these things off my to-do list (I am all about crossing things off my list) and the other was the fact that I had no idea how long these things might take to fix so I couldn’t schedule time to do them easily.

I struggled with each of them for the better part of several days. I would get to the tip of frustration then stop to work on them the next day. My whole list was thrown off-track. I finally sat down and did a little journal writing to find out why I was so out of whack with these walls of frustration. I realized that if I kept all of my “to-do’s” in the same list of my “can’t-figure-it-out-to-do’s” I felt completely incompetent and like I was doing nothing. I decided to separate them into two different lists. One list was the things that I was easily able to do even though I didn’t want to, filing things, paying bills, ironing labels onto 50lbs of summer camp items and the other list was for the things that I needed to work out.

This helped me feel capable of moving ahead again. I was then able to work to solve even my frustrating problems. I went to a printer store and talked my problem over with the sales clerk. She gave me helpful information so that I was eventually able to solve the problem. As for the blog, I decided to move ahead even with the lost posts and remember next time to check the database backup before deleting it.