Attitude

 All of a sudden I remember it was Thursday night and I hadn’t written my blog.  I have been spending my days working on the Crochet mystery and then switching over to working on our taxes, which amounts to dealing with Quickbooks.  

Last year was the first time I had to use the program to get everything together for our accountant. He was insistent on having it that way.  I was angry that I had to use it and frustrated because I wasted so much time going in circles.  I spent hours on hold for credit card companies trying to figure out how to move what I needed to Quickbooks.  I didn’t know the right way to phrase my request which made it even worse.

I would go in circles and finally figure out how to do something, but after so many tries I didn’t remember which one worked.  Or if I did, I took notes which later seemed to make no sense.

I wasn’t starting from scratch this year as I had some memory of how I did things last year, but some of the credit card companies have changed things.  I spent forever being told by Chase bank that it no longer could work with my browser and to update to FireFox or Chrome. I kept getting the same message even after I changed my default browser to FireFox. But instead of getting crazy, I figured there had to be another way to do what I wanted.  And surprise, I was right.

That’s when I learned the secret.  It’s not something with the computer program.  It’s something with me.  It’s all about attitude.  I dropped the anger at having to use the program.  Instead of feeling frustration, I looked at it as a challenge. And instead of being worried I would fail, I felt confident I would  figure it out.

The same is true about doing anything that pushes  the envelope.  Attitude is everything. It works with writing too.  When I have those moments when I get a sinking feeling that I don’t know what to write, I give myself the “you can do it” pep talk.  It’s amazing what you can do when you let go of negative emotions.

Update on the sick kitty.   Spyderman hasn’t thrown up the foul stuff anymore, but he is very thin and doesn’t seem to be eating much.  He is being social and wants attention which is a good sign.  We took him to our regular vet today.  He checked out good except for the weight loss.  They took blood and we’ll know tomorrow what is what.