What is my easiest habit out of the seven and a half? I think it's #6, which to use technology to your advantage. Of course it helps if the technology works well. At home, I use a Mac, iLife software, including photo, web, and music organization, and integrates all of them with simple clicks. In addition, I've got a fun program called Delicious Library, which has allowed me to catalog my entire home collection of books, CD's and DVD's.
I just recently added a small netbook to my arsenal of technology, and it is driving me crazy. It's slow, keeps wanting to update, and then needs restarting. By the time I get done with tasks on it, I don't feel so productive! (I bought it for use with my embroidery enabled sewing machine, which does not work with the Mac.) So, when the technology works, I can be quite productive, but when it doesn't, it's a huge time suck!
In that vein, my biggest challenge is #3, viewing problems as challenges. I want things to work, and I want them to work now!!! I have to remind myself, that even when things aren't going the way I want them to, the possibilities are so much greater for learning, than they were when I first started out.
I took a computer class when I was in "Library School" at UofW. It involved punching chads in cards, then making sure they were in the correct order to feed into the computer that would read them. I think the program was called BASIC. I have no memory of what kind of program I wrote, and I couldn't then imagine what I would ever do with it. I really hated that class; hard to believe, but now I'm the computer geek in my family.
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