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Powerback 46: Take Care of the Annoying Task

December 05, 2019 Laura Wallace | worx&co
The Gutsy Podcast | personal development, entrepreneurship, mindset, alignment, intuition and energy
Powerback 46: Take Care of the Annoying Task
Show Notes

Have you ever had one of those daunting tasks, that thing you keep thinking about on a regular basis? You know it needs to be done, but you just keep saying, Oh, I'll get to it tomorrow. Oh, I'll get to it the next day. And, inevitably, tomorrow comes. And the next day comes. And the task continues to roll over.

I'm going to take you down a quick story path here, guys, because I have done this recently and I want to bring this to you so that you can prevent this unnecessary stress in your life.

So let's talk Microsoft Word. Out of the blue one day a couple of months ago, when I would open up a new document it wouldn't save as the right size. Like all of a sudden, it was like 8.75 by 10.25 or some ridiculous size. So I would go to the settings and I would choose and ask to make it regular letter size and it wouldn't change. So I had to deal with this abnormally sized document. Well, I can't use that. Right? It doesn't look right. It throws me off. So every time I wanted to have a quote-unquote normal-sized document, I would open up another document, resave it as a new name, delete out all the content, and then use it.

Now, I know this doesn't seem really big or whatever, but I use Word for a lot of different things in my business. I use it when I'm documenting questions and planning for the podcast. I'm writing content for Worx & Co. I use it for communications. I mean, I'm in Word a handful of times a week, but every time I opened it I got irritated and frustrated because why on earth, Word, would you make this ridiculous sized document? I allowed this to go on within myself for I would say probably four to six weeks.

I knew what I had to do. I was working in an outdated Microsoft Word. I couldn't tell you what year it was. I don't know why it didn't auto-update. There are a thousand reasons and questions that I'll never know, but I knew the reason and I knew it was because I went out to one of my coworkers' desks and I realized, Oh, your word and Excel icons look different than mine. They look way more updated. Shit, I know what I have to do to get rid of this problem. But to do so, I knew that I was going to have to take the time to download the programs.

I know that's not hard, but time is really precious. I was going to have to download the programs. I was going to have to re-install them, and then, inevitably (and why I put this off for so long), I had to go find the passwords because I had to log back in. And then the old documents needed converted to the new documents. And all these things started happening and I was like, see, this is why I didn't want to deal with this. And then I stopped and I thought, well, here's a podcast episode because how many times do we put off doing sometimes the smallest task because of the larger things that come along with it?

It wasn't about downloading it, it wasn't about putting in the password, it was the combination. And honestly, it was the time to stop, deal with the issue, and do what I needed to do to alleviate the initial challenge that I started from in the beginning. It takes more time and more effort to put into thinking about why and how you can't do what you need to do than it is to just do the damn thing to begin with. So this week I want you to take your power back by taking care of the annoying thing that you know you just don't want to deal with, but also know your life is going to be a lot easier and a lot more

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