Self-Inflicted Wounds and Lessons Learned

[Puckstop31]

As I sit here at one of my favorite clients, on the downside of unscrewing a self inflicted wound.... Bored out of my mind, watching an Exchange 2010 server move a MASSIVE database from one volume to another, I got to thinking about the lessons I learned today because of this. The lesson(s) would make the average "not a geek" person's eyes bleed, so I will spare the details. But I can sum it up thus... (See if you notice the reference....)

"Listen to your heart/gut because your brain screws with you sometimes."

My gut told me not to do what I did that caused me to "earn" extra work hours today. I did it anyway.... And here I sit, 5 hours later.... LOL I bailed myself out pretty well, but I missed putting Hannah to bed tonight and that is in my top 5 favorite things to do these days.

Share your favorite self inflicted wound and what you learned from it. Maybe we might help someone not make the same mistake.

 

[sparks19]

My self inflicted wound was yesterday morning.

hannah woke up at 6 am and wanted to come into our bed. Figured she would go back to sleep if she came in so in she came. NOPE. the last time I looked at the clock it was 7:30 and she fell asleep around that time but we had to be up at 8:30. I knew I should have just said forget it... we're up when she got up at 6 but NOOOOOOOO. I knew if she fell back asleep that late she was going to be miserable. And that's exactly what she was ALL DAY LONG lol.

I learned that I will never learn LOL. I KNOW what the outcome is going to be and yet I do these things anyway lol

 

[Renee750il]

Well . . . mine have names