Thirty pages from completing a full edit and format of my new book, Kissing the Black Dog. I decided, after working for fourteen hours i might leave the last pages until the next morning.  It was so close to being finished.

Next morning, i noticed some pages were missing, each time i tried to correct the problem the computer jammed. Finally i had to give up and  cut and paste from a pdf version, which had not had all the changes included. It took several hours before i had transferred all the information back across. Then it was starting from the beginning and reformatting and re editing the book.

Feel Good Now, i kept telling myself over and over, Feel Good Now! It worked, i simply chose to feel good about the situation, let the tension go and have a little chuckle at what life throws up and the  potential issues that can derail us, or we can simply smile, have a little chuckle and start all over again. This time saving regularly and having a second back up copy.

It would have been so easy, to feel sorry for myself, sulk about what had happened, instead it took a whole lot energy to accept the problem and set about working,  on the solution.

How often in our lives do we get sidetracked into putting energy into what we do not want? Wasting time and effort on creating more of a problem, than  creating solutions. I am so grateful i was taught about Feeling Good Now, then feeling better. It helped this morning, when days of work simply disappeared into cyberspace.

Tonight will be a long night, getting back to where i was yesterday, but hey, some good music, some nibbles,  a full water filter. Time to make the most of it.