Tech Challenged Rears It's Ugly Head

Okay, it’s time to come clean.  I’m confessing here in hopes that it will cause me to move forward.  I’ve been having a discussion with myself for the past couple of weeks.  You know, the type of discussion you have sometimes with the good, white angel on one shoulder, the bad, red guy on the other.  Well, the discussion has culminated in a significant amount of procrastination and I now find myself at a crossroads in which I will have to act if I have any hope of submitting my project in time (or early so I can do other things on Thanksgiving weekend, like eat pie).

So, here’s my dilemma.  I know what I’m going to do for my project, even have the pieces all done; the last thing is to pull it all together.  I could stick with what I know, the good old recorded PowerPoint show.  I speak as if I really know about it, right?  Truth is I’ve done a couple because of our class and now I think I’m an expert.  Not so much.  Or, here it is, I could download a trial of Camtasia and go all out, by this I mean try something new. 

I know for most people it’s no big deal.  I even know, from my experience over the past ten weeks, that it really isn’t all that big of a deal.  Why am I now feeling this hesitation?  Is it because I’m doing something “for real”, something that we are going to use in our business?  Maybe.  There is certainly a level of fear I have about it not working.  Here it is, we proudly present the training disc to a new team member, they put the CD in and nothing goes.  Yes, that thought has crossed my mind.  But really, is that possible.  Based on prior experience, yes. 

Or is it a little bit of resistance to the supposed frustration I’ll probably feel as I work with a new program outside the relative safety of our underground bunker of a computer lab with all of my new techy friend’s right next to me?  Probably.  I’ve got it; I’ll turn the furnace on high in my house, go down in the basement storage room and get busy.  You all need to be aware that I’ve loaded you into my speed dial. 

So, what’s the hang-up?  Now I’ve got myself all worked into a frenzy which is causing the procrastination to procrastinate.  I’ve made my decision.  To heck with the tried and true way.  I’m downloading Camtasia tonight and tomorrow will begin to put thing together.  Hopefully I don’t look like this when I send you a note about it this weekend. 

I know you are all turning your phones off . . .