How my day went
Here I am sitting in a library thinking let me get some work done but low and behold my wireless card is not working. So what do I do? I have some choices I can
a) get frustrated and play spider solitare or some other game on my computer
b) call my friend and complain that I can’t get an internet connection and my time is shot
c) take it as a sign that God wants me to take the rest of the day off
d) do some other work that doesn’t require internet connectivity
I have found that people myself included sometimes approach their business with that a,b or c approach. We plan on taking certain actions and something happens that prevents us from doing that one particular thing and our whole time is shot. It doesn’t have to be.
This is why it is always good to have a plan of initial action and a contingent plan in case the initial plan can’t or won’t work. Productivity isn’t measured just by accomplishing the one thing you wanted but how effective you were in using the time and resources you had at your disposal when you were working. If something isn’t working do something else until you can make it work.
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If my internet connection is not working, then I would have definitely gone for the last option D. I would have engaged in some other important work if needed. It is totally the circumstances on which people work. If someone needs break, then hw/she would have chosen some other option.
I really sad to know that didn’t get internet connection. Even to me also happen most of the time but we can’t do anyting for that only the thing we need to take care of the other alternatives like network updates and many of them.
Many of the time we can face sever problems and ofcourse we can get sometime angry but we need to control it, you said let it be god wish so that is really good think at the time.
I hope that next time you won’t get problems with netconnection.
Thanks for sharing with me.
What a very educative article.aways there must be alternatives in life to safeguard your interests.So if one fails you can rely on the other to counteract the challeges which could have been there if the alternatives are missing.nice stuff
Short but great post.
Most of the times I would play games When my Internet connection turns down.
But hereafter I plan to do useful things.
This a casual talk about this why i told in this because now a days most of the person work was engaged with the internet connectivity if it turn down it is better to concentrate on the other work but the best thing is plan before itself have an option what to do next if the initial work fails
I would agree that always having a ‘back up’ plan would help a person be more productive, but i do think that at times taking the C approach can be the right choice, everyone does have a right to take a break, and if you need divine permission to do so guiltfree then I don’t see any harm.