Here's a conumdrum: Do I change this habit or not?

Though the years, I have learned to sometimes plow ahead on things, for various reasons. In this instance, I am only talking about certain circumstances, such as when I am getting instructions from someone on something that I am not familiar with. When left with the option of sitting and waiting to be told the next thing, I would rather do the former. , I would rather do the former. Now it seems to me that a linear would rather you make a guess (and not wait for each and every instruction), however it seems to me that making the wrong guess does not sit well either.

I don’t like making guesses when I have absolutely no idea what is being done. However, I also know that when I just wait to be told the next step, people tend to lose patience, because I am waiting to be told what to do. I feel screwed no matter which direction I take.

Like right now, I’m installing stuff that I know almost nothing about. I don’t want to just sit here and wait for the person to come back to my desk, because I am then not helping myself and I feel like I come off looking like a bit of an idiot. If I didn’t follow the instructions the first time, usually because I didn’t understand them well enough, then I’d rather not have to ask for them again. People have a way of getting a look of consternation when things have to be repeated. Its mild annoyance when directed at children and the look becomes even less pretty when directed at adults that ‘should know better’.

It’s very exasperating when I am struggling to figure out something and I completely miss the easy method to complete it, and someone else has to point it out to me. I don’t know if they are thinking that I’m an idiot or not, however I do and I’m sure that the person is probably very unsure of me at times. Sometimes, it’s like I’m that pet that you are trying to steer to the dropped piece of meat on the floor and all they do is keep looking at you.

Here's a conumdrum: Do I change this habit or not?

Though the years, I have learned to sometimes plow ahead on things, for various reasons. In this instance, I am only talking about certain circumstances, such as when I am getting instructions from someone on something that I am not familiar with. When left with the option of sitting and waiting to be told the next thing, I would rather do the former. , I would rather do the former. Now it seems to me that a linear would rather you make a guess (and not wait for each and every instruction), however it seems to me that making the wrong guess does not sit well either.

I don’t like making guesses when I have absolutely no idea what is being done. However, I also know that when I just wait to be told the next step, people tend to lose patience, because I am waiting to be told what to do. I feel screwed no matter which direction I take.

Like right now, I’m installing stuff that I know almost nothing about. I don’t want to just sit here and wait for the person to come back to my desk, because I am then not helping myself and I feel like I come off looking like a bit of an idiot. If I didn’t follow the instructions the first time, usually because I didn’t understand them well enough, then I’d rather not have to ask for them again. People have a way of getting a look of consternation when things have to be repeated. Its mild annoyance when directed at children and the look becomes even less pretty when directed at adults that ‘should know better’.

It’s very exasperating when I am struggling to figure out something and I completely miss the easy method to complete it, and someone else has to point it out to me. I don’t know if they are thinking that I’m an idiot or not, however I do and I’m sure that the person is probably very unsure of me at times. Sometimes, it’s like I’m that pet that you are trying to steer to the dropped piece of meat on the floor and all they do is keep looking at you.

My Treo

I’m finally getting back up to speed with using my Treo to store/access information again. Before last summer, I had actually started to rely on it to store needed info, such as reminders and IDs and such. Once I lost that, I noticed really quick that trying to rely on just writing things down or having you remind me here and there just wasn’t cutting it. I got out of the habit of relying on it, since I couldn’t store much in it nor could I get much out of it.

I must make sure to keep very accurate backups from now on, which is what really did me it. Once I first restored my old phone in
August and then got my replacement phone last December, I should have been able to just load it with the backed up data and picked up where I left off. Not having that was my downfall. I will say that most of that was not really my fault. I did have backup software set up, called BackupBuddy, which I used for a number of years. Last year, I had mistakenly thought that Palm had upgraded their software to backup everything on a device, not just key files, so I stopped using BackupBuddy. However, when I needed to restore from my backups, I found that I didn’t have anything current to work with because of my mistaken assumption. Oh, and there was some two months lost due to not being able to get hotsyncs to work due to Windows Service Pack 3 update that killed Palms nearly everywhere. I had to search for that solution on the web and it took me quite some time to do it.

All in all, when I find a solution that is actually working, I need to put work into making sure that it stays in place. Just because I think that I have found a ‘better’ solution, I should not abandon my old one until I am absolutely and positively sure that the new one is working 110%.

Clarity

I’m thinking that the main reason that I don’t like filling out my Clarity – and have never liked filling out my other time systems – is because I know that I am not getting much done within a certain time period. On days when I’m working on only one thing, it’s easy enough to determine where to apply the time; even on those days, I just don’t want to interrupt myself to enter in time, because I don’t get back to what I was doing very easily. On other days, I can go from thing to thing so much, trying to determine just how much of that time went to actual work is very pitiful.