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You Can't Make Every Mistake Yourself
Occasionally It’s Nice to Learn From the Mistakes of Others
by Morgana BraveRaven

It’s true. You can’t make every mistake that there is to make in one life time. You could try - but heck, that takes a lot of energy. Why not learn a thing or two from the mistakes of others, and save yourself a little time and grief?

This week’s little pearl is really basic stuff - every one knows it already. That said, many of us, being excessively busy folks, fail to heed the warnings of pure common sense. 

Many of us conduct business on the Internet, and we do so with the mighty computer. We collect data, store it, and retrieve it at will. Change it, add to it, and delete it when we no longer have a use for it. We are data maniacs, and common sense should tell us that it is important to back-up our data.

Did I say important? What I meant was really important!

Like so many others before me, I became completely dependent on my computer. In itself, this is not such a bad thing - but, I was careless. Reckless, in fact. I fell prey to it’s ram, and took advantage of its capacity. For hours everyday I worshiped the great data-god perched atop my desk, entering countless streams of information into various programs. As a pc user, I was foolishly abusing the technology. It wasn’t a healthy relationship, and eventually, the whole thing blew up in my face.

Yes, I was an abusive pc user. The pc was so efficient at maintaining my data that suddenly objects that had once been near and dear to me, became obsolete. It’s true, I suddenly had no use for my address book, or my day planner - and what the heck, after I tore them up and dumped them into the recycle bin, I delighted in the newfound room in my purse.

My notebooks, once brimming with useful notes and records also made their way to the recycle bin. Hey, I had a pc - didn’t need those cumbersome old ringed binders anymore. Right?

Well, that’s what I believed - up until about a year ago.

Yes, about a year ago my troubles began. As an online marketer I had collected a great deal of data: email addresses, Web addresses, downline data, upline data, pass codes. All kinds of info that I was grossly dependant on on a daily basis. I stored a good deal of it in my email program, and lots more of it in my mailer. And even more of it in folders I had opened for each and every person and company that I was corresponding with. In fact, I had about two years of carefully selected and sorted data stored on my pc. 

Then one day, and rather unexpectedly, my pc began to act up. I would try to retrieve my records - but would be unable to locate them. Slowly, one by one, my files began to disintegrate, and each day the depths of my hard drive devoured more and more of my precious data.

This occurrence is marked in my personal history as the beginning of the First Great Crash.

By the end of the First Great Crash I was left with nothing more than a few corrupt floppies, a handful of email addresses, and a couple of carelessly scribbled url’s on wayward scraps of paper. 

My data was gone. It would never be recovered. I had lost nearly everything. All my pass codes, all the url’s to my personal business sites. All my downline and upline info - every ding-dang-darn thing.

Being the optimist, I thought to myself - no biggie. I’ll rebuild it - and I went out the next day, bought a newer model used pc, and over the course of six months and many mountains of frustration - I did rebuild most of it. 

And what did I learn from that experience?

Absolutely nothing. 

I carried on as I had previously - disregarding the cheeky cautionary warning of the guy who sold me my pc, “Hey, bet yur gonna back up yur files from now on, aren’t ya! (?)…“ 

Well, I thought I would. I meant to. But I didn’t. I’m busy you know. Very busy. And what the heck, I thought, an event like the First Great Crash would never repeat itself in a single lifetime… right? 

And I carried on as I always had, never backing up a single file, never recording a single character of information into a note book. It would never happen again. Highly unlikely.

And I truly believed this until another day in my personal history which I fondly note as the Second Great Crash.

The Second Great Crash was not quite as devastating as the first, but it did mess me up quite a bit. My new pc was not able to handle all of the programs that I was running. Too many conflicts, not enough ram, and eventually, files began to corrupt or disappear off the hard drive.

As soon as the trouble began I went out and purchased yet another pc - this time brand new. Lots of ram and really fast. I began transferring my files from the old pc to the new with floppies, when suddenly the A drive on the old pc packed it in. 

Well, that was frustrating, but I am a clever cookie some days, so I loaded up my email, attaching tons of info to zillions of emails, and I emailed all my data to myself and then picked it all up with the new pc - and I did manage to grab a whole lot of info off of the old pc before the mail program crashed and I couldn’t transfer anymore data.

Oh well, I thought to myself, at least I saved most of it.

And what did I learn from that experience?

Absolutely nothing! 

It took me about two months to sort out all my data and get everything back into the right folder and data base, and I was so consumed with getting things back into order that I failed to heed the warnings of the little common sense voice in my head (yes, I sometimes hear it) that was telling me to get out the note book and make at least a skeletal record of pass codes and url’s…

I no sooner had things reorganized when the event in my personal history which I refer to as the Third Big Crash occurred.

Yes, it’s true. Slowly, and deviously, the monitor on the new pc began to tweak, and flash. The hard drive began to squeak and grind while the fan hissed in the background. Each day fewer programs would run concurrently, until finally multi-tasking became impossible. Within days, even single tasking was no longer an option. I couldn’t keep the pc running for more than ten minutes. By sheer luck alone I was able to scoop my application data files onto a CD.

With CD in hand, I tucked the new pc under my arm and returned it to my point of purchase. They hummed and hawed over it for a good hour and concluded that the hard drive was defunct. 

After the completion of a little paper work my sales rep plunked a new, new pc into my arms, and I toddled out to the car with it. I deposited into my trunk, and drove directly to the stationary store where I purchased a goodly supply of loose-leaf paper, a couple of one inch binders, and a whole whack of dividers.

I drove home, scooped my application data off of my CD, and immediately began making notes on all my critical data: every pass code, every url, every email of upline and downline. Every tidbit of info, that if lost would slow down my business, was recorded to hard copy, and now sits neatly packaged in one inch binders beside my pc. 

It’s kind of an old fashioned concept, but it’s a real comfort to me. 

This lesson is an oldie. Remember back in high school and college? Profs and teachers were always reminding us that we wouldn’t remember everything and they encouraged us to take good notes? Same thing here. Computers are terrific technology - but sometimes they are no more reliable than our own poor memories. You can deposit all the data you want on your pc - but take good notes!

And the Fourth Great Crash? Well, I don’t look forward to it - but bring it on! I’m backed up to CD. I’m backed up to hard copy. I’m ready for it.

Morgana Braveraven
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About the author – Residing on Beautiful Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, Morgana BraveRaven shares her most excellent gift with each of us.  Her success is based on helping others get what they want, and focusing on the needs and desires of her clients to help them achieve.  Morgana writes exclusively for SykaroInsights^TM. Visit Morgana Here

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