If your computer was displaying this message would it stress you out?
What if it was still saying that after 3 hours? With the dots slowly spinning around and around and the percentage never climbing, would that stress you out?
I was concerned after two hours but I Googled the problem and it can take 24 hours depending on the size of the hard drive. I wasn’t stressed because we have a disaster plan and one of the topics we cover is if we lose a computer. I either use one of the others in the office or the iPad. I’m not as efficient but I am productive. Productivity is good, efficiency is great, but they are only good and great if you are also being effective. If you are productive and/or efficient but applying that to something worthless then you are wasting your most precious possession: your time.
Not long ago, it was made very clear to me that I was not being effective even though I was being productive and efficient. Changes which were ideas in my head suddenly had to be implemented. I no longer had the luxury of procrastinating. I had to make changes and make them rapidly. If I didn’t not only would my life be negatively impacted but those of my coworkers and clients.
That’s what the Change Log series of posts will be about dealing with change, breaking old habits, adopting new habits, and learning better ways to benefit my clients, my friends, and my family.