Faith Venture

When a company I worked for closed in the mid-80s, I did some PC support. Answers to two questions solved 90% of the problems. Is it plugged in? (i.e. do you have power?) Turn it off, pause 20 seconds, turn it back on.

Later working with industrial automation, the same two questions when a customer called.

This week spanning four decades of experience, the same problem/solution arose.

I was reminded of these experiences upon reading this thought from Ann Lamott, “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”

Feeling a bit stressed? Perhaps somewhat despondent? Can’t get started on that project?

Take a few minutes to unplug. Shut the laptop. Set the mobile phone to mute and dock it far away. Turn off the TV. Just sit. Unplugged. Five minutes can do it. Ten is great. Twenty—a miracle.

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