There are times no matter what you try it will never be how you want it. Trying to sellotape or hack a solution to make it work will often make it worse.
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I've been in tech for a long time. I would say definitely over 30 years. And in that time, one of them, the secret weapons that a tech guy has, especially in the early days, not so much now but it does work as well.
In the early days, the best thing, the secret weapon that we had was turn it off and on again.
Usually when you recycle the computer, the sampler, whatever it was, it would just work again. It didn't make any sense. It just did and that's just the way it was.
So a lot of the times turning it off and on again usually made things work. And that stuck with me throughout the years, not just with tech but with everything that I do.
If something doesn't work, I literally just wipe it and start all over again, which is basically turn it off and on again. Things weren't working for me in Amsterdam. I wasn't happy. So I literally got rid of the apartment and switched it off and on again.
And now things are going very well for me, even though I'm nomadding, living in my car. I love it because I'm not now, but I'm always in that forest. I'm not now because it's raining and I came to my friend's house. I went to see my friend as well.
But turning off and on again is actually a huge thing.
Now, in tech, in running your business, being a coach, consultant, whatever business that you're running and the tech technology that you're using for it, when I work with people, a lot of people say to me, this just isn't working.
I'm getting frustrated and half the time I'm telling them, turn it off and on again. Effectively, just start all over again.
And they're very hesitant to do it and I can understand it. I mean, it's quite daunting to wipe everything off and start again. There's a whole thing with email bankruptcy.
If your email is just causing your headache, just literally delete all your emails and start again.
But when it comes to choosing the right tech, if you don't have the right tech and it isn't working, you literally have to turn it off and on again. You have to basically start again, figure out, which I spoke about yesterday, your workflow, your arc effectively, and figure out the best way of doing it by starting literally all over again.
Because trying to sellotape solutions using hacks, using automations and stuff, and I hate automation as you know, will make it work, but I think in the long run you'll get a lot more problems than actually fixing.
So turning it off and on again, I think is a great thing, even though it was an early day support thing. It actually is always in my head and I always think about it when I work with clients. Is it something that you think about?
Thinking of just switching off and on again? It'd be interested to know.