Often people will send up a prayer requesting an area of personal weakness to be strengthened or improved. Many times someone will ask for greater patience or the ability to be calm under trying circumstances. Well, we often get those prayers answered by receiving circumstances that allow us to practice those skills and refine them usually in the way we didn’t really want.

When you are a self-employed business owner or independent contractor and that deadline is looming or you get paid for performance, you need your tools to work with little to no interruption. Naturally, this is the perfect time to learn lessons on remaining calm, having patience, and foresight.

We have all likely experienced this example. Imagine working feverishly on a presentation that you must give tomorrow. You have put together a thing of beauty as you worked non-stop with great inspiration. This will surely land you the account or secure that large payout. Except in your time of creativity, you forget to use the save feature. Sure enough, a lightning storm knocks out your power supply, a Canadian goose flies into the transformer, a drunk driver smashed into the main power station for your grid, an auto update finishes and restarts your computer or your computer simply locks up.

That is when our patience is really being honed and our ability to remain calm is important. Yes, we would all like to give out a primal scream at that time but that doesn’t resolve the problem. Time is money and you are rapidly running out of time.

When this happens with Windows Vista, there is a backup plan. With 95 and 98 long dead and XP retiring soon, Vista is the next step in the MS operating systems. What comes with Windows Vista is a Windows Vista Small Business Assurance that includes a responsive customer service team. They can easily handle the issues that lead to the lock ups and compatibility issues with the variety of software a small business owner may be using.

Will that redo the project that just got messed up? No, but you can hope the Auto-Save feature kicked in recently. Then you can take it as a lesson in patience and gain the wisdom of saving early and often.

Anah

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