Be Open to New Concepts

During my online adventure spanning the last 12 years I have had some pretty darn aggravating days. Days where things didn’t work as I expected, scripts throwing errors and applications not working for no apparent reason.

So I understand the frustration of not understanding how things work or not having them work as easily as one would prefer. New environments, new applications, new combinations, new control panels, new technology comes out every day. There will be glitches, there will be new things to learn and there will always be new problems to solve. Technology requires one embrace new concepts.

That is part and parcel of participating online. Every day is a new adventure and one has to be open to learning, willing to try and comprehend that what they perceive as a glitch may not be a glitch at all. Or that application which may not be working as you presumed it should, is not actually broken, but just that you may not yet understand how to utilize it properly.

When you find yourself in these situations, look at it as an opportunity to learn! Don’t point fingers at others claiming something is wrong or complain that things are not as easy as you prefer. You won’t get anywhere with that attitude.

Before you point fingers or claim something is broken, take a deep breath and start over and go through whatever is challenging you at the moment. You most likely will find that you overlooked a feature, Submit or Save button to accomplish what you would like.

Considering the complexity in the background that brings this wonderful technology to our desktops every day, learning how to use sites, features, new control panels and tools are actually a piece of cake. It really doesn’t get any easier than this!

At your service,
Judith