Thousands of Hours of Work Lost in a Click

This week has provided me with a fewincomplete projects I had not appreciated how
challenges.this had been holding me back.
I lost months of work in one fell swoop when myBy losing all this work I freed up my energy.
computer crashed. Having not backed up myNow I am able to assimilate the lessons of this
system this meant that I lost all of my music,episode and focus on one task at a time. It is a
videos, photos, products, e-books and documents.core learning and has enabled me to have more
This constituted several thousand hours of workfocus, flow and certainty in all that I do. Every
and memories saved onto my hard drive.challenge in life bears gifts that can be uncovered
Apart from the loss of my work came the addedwhen we look for them.
expense of replacing my computer. This servedWhat gifts are you ready to uncover?
as a hard hit initially. It is fair to say that it took aWhatever challenge that you face at the moment
few days to fully process the learnings of this.there is a gift waiting for you. By asking the
Then I had my epiphany....question "What gift does this situation bear that I
All of my life I have had great ideas and beenhaven't yet discovered?" regularly, you will start
good at carrying them out to about 80% ofto see every challenge as a gift.
completion before a much better idea comesThis may not occur instantly but it will occur by
along and shifts my attention in another direction.holding the faith and asking the question
Although I had completed some projects, manycontinually.
were left incomplete.I may have lost many things in the past few
Incomplete things drain energy and with so manyweeks, yet I have gained so much more.