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Overcoming Adversity
What happens when the adversity comes from yourself?
There are times when it's not other people that are keeping you from doing what you want to do, it is yourself and your own situations that keep you from accomplishing what you want to accomplish.
Perhaps you're one of those people who just can't say "no". I happen to be one of those people. I find myself so bogged down with what everyone else needs me to do, that sometimes I forget the things that I really want to do. I feel like I'm being selfish if I put my own needs in front of others. But the fact of the matter is, that I'm not being selfish when I do that. There are simply things that I need to take care of, and myself is one of those things.
Recently, I have had issues with typing, for example. However, everything that I want to do involves typing. My job involves typing, my second job involves typing, and because I am on this site as one of my favorite pastimes, this also involves typing. So when you have your hand seizing up and refusing to you do what you ask it to when you're trying to do one of your favorite things, it becomes an incredible frustration.
For quite a bit of time, I had just been staying away from the computer. But then, my second boss suggested that I use talk to type. So, I had a way to overcome the situation I put myself in. I sat down, and started to learn how to use speak to the computers and would type for me. This was no small task, if any of you have ever tried to learn how to do this, I'm sure you can feel my pain. I literally had a week or so where I was wondering what was more painful, typing and dealing with the pain of my hand, or learning how to use the silly speech recognition software.
During this time, I learned several things about myself. I learned that I don't like repeating myself over and over and over when a computer is not understanding what I am trying to say. In fact, I lose my patience quite quickly. I start talking to the computer at a lower growl that I have ever spoken to my children. I did not realize I had quite so much attitude, until I tried talking to a computer that could not understand me. I also learned that I was not as articulate with my speech as I thought I was. The better your articulation, the better the computer will understand you. I pride myself on speaking well, I was so very wrong. I cannot even imagine having to do this as a person with a thicker accent than what I have. It would be even more frustrating.
I also learned that the computer can type in a lot faster than I can. The computer can nearly keep up with the amount of speed I used to speak with. I did not think this is possible, because I do talk very very quickly. I have to take frequent breaks when I'm speaking, especially after sentence is just to make sure that it is done correctly. But it's not as bad as I thought it would be. In fact, they said that the more I talk to the computer the better it will understand me, and the less frequent mistakes will be. I was skeptical.
However, it seems to be true. As time goes on, I am learning how to speak to the computer and not have to stop my most favorite pastimes. I can actually do one thing at a time, I can simply talk. Drawbacks, I cannot be watching TV one trying to do these things. Or talk to my husband. Or my children. Or to anyone. I can't even have music. However, I guess some sacrifices are necessary.
This is not the first time I have brought adversity upon myself. Each time I find it harder to try to overcome. I blame my age. There are some times when I think, " Why do I even bother?" And honestly, I ought to be less hard on myself. They always say, that you're your own worst critic. I think that is incredibly true.
For the past two weeks I had to learn to overcome not being able to type when nearly everything I do in my life involves typing. I hope, when adversity finds you, you'll be able to figure out how to overcome it, CU continue doing the things that you truly love. I love my job, both of them. I love the contribution that I can make to this web site. And I love being able to share my thoughts with you. It just took me a little while to figure out how I can still do so.
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In the newsletter, I documented only one thing I have had to overcome in the last several years. Let's just say my health isn't the best.
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