Setting The Moon

Hello and welcome to the Cowboy Computer Repair blog! Today, we will consider what to do with a task or responsibility when it seemingly never ends.

Think for a moment about a time when you were trying to do one task, but ended up with a road block, then another, and a distraction and so on. One moment you were trying to fix the leak in your sink, and the next you are elbow deep in your car’s engine. Sound familiar? While yes there are times when discretion is the better part of valour, leaving the function of your vehicle to “discretion“ is usually not an option. So what can you do?

Slamming ones head against the problem until it’s over is usually the first answer. Why do anything else when the problem is standing between you and your goals? Only one issue with this method. Sometimes you will end up breaking things, sometimes that “thing“ ends up being yourself. Not in the sense of breaking bone or scarring flesh, but losing the desire to put in any effort whatsoever after encountering nothing but difficulty the whole way through.

A better idea could be using less effort. While that sounds counter intuitive, not everything is a 100 meter sprint, and if you run as hard as you can right from the start of a marathon, you’re only going to end up running out of gas early on. After all, there’s only one way to eat an elephant and that’s one bite at a time. So slow it down, consider things as you go through the motions, since messing things up will only make the problems worse.

Lastly, there is always the hardest option of the three. Paying someone else. While yes the idea of handing someone money and them performing the task may sound like an easy endeavor, you have to remember everything that went in to that money. Not only the hours of work you performed to receive the money, but the decisions you encounter day after day that you made to not spend that money until the moment you needed the service mentioned before. Consider how easy it is to deal with an elephant of a problem when you already spoiled your appetite on buying an entire cake.

Thanks for reading and I hope you learned something from my own lesson in life.