Heads up for my readers. Learning new things ain’t easy.

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There is a problem with changing yourself and learning new things.  Lifestyle design requires making some changes and change isn’t  easy. I’ve been having technical problems for about a week now.   Suddenly things which worked smoothly became a problem for no apparent reason.  And when your computer wants to be bad, there is very little you can do. I had gotten pretty comfortable with the technical side of creating videos.  I won’t argue that I have perfected the art of creating entertaining and useful content but I had mastered the process of recording a video and then editing it for upload to Youtube.   Last week, it all changed.  For some reason a lag appeared in my video between the audio and video.  It took two days to identify the problem and then discover that there was no way to fix it.   Finally, I found a workaround but the mental fatigue kept me stuck.

I’m posting this just to show that pushing the envelope can be frustrating.  I don’t have to do videos and I am sure that many of you roll your eyes when I put up another one.  The learning process isn’t always pretty and along the way there can be some production that you would like to forget.  But that’s the way we learn.  If you ever had a child learning the violin, you will know what I mean.  I like to think that each video I make is better tha the last and that if I keep it up long enough, they will be good.

I hope that you have goals and aspirations for your lives.  I also hope that you are willing to do them badly for a time in order to become good in the future,    I’m working the kinks out of my latest video and now I will be working on it for tomorrow.  Meanwhile, what goals have you set for yourself and how are those goals working out for you?  Are you running into road blocks and encouragements?  Did you let them stop you or did you fight through?  Are you willing to do something badly for a time while you master a new skill?