There's nothing worse than staring at a blank screen ... or have one staring at you ... and right now I've got three of them looking at me ... accusing me ... mocking me and challenging me to make them work.

Of course they know I can't ... I've tried and all I get is about a third of my desktop showing up on just one monitor ... and everything I need to fix the problem wants to appear on the part of the desktop that I can't see. So instead of working with them they sit there ... dark and brooding ... until our computer tech can come round later today and whip them into shape.

I have no idea how a gremlin wriggled it's way into my computer to cause the problem ... all it did was go in for a simple change of the main fan ... but when I plugged everything in this morning there was problem waiting to really make my day.

Oh well ... at least all the data in the hard drives on that computer is safe ... but I'd love to be able to access that data sometime today. And of course much of the work I had planned to do today involved that data and it‘s trapped inside that computer.

So I can either improvise, adapt and overcome ... or find something else to do till the problem is sorted out. Sadly I've improvised, adapted and overcome till I'm blue in the face ... I've tried every combination you can think of with three monitors, two graphic cards and four outlets all to no avail so I'm just going to have to fill my day with other 'stuff'

Shock!! Horror!! I might even have enough time on my hands today to tidy my office desks. While they might say that a tidy desk is the sign of a sick mind I've probably gone a little overboard in an effort to be labeled as a sicko and it's definitely time I did something to bring some order to my desk.

But do I really feel like work? Absolutely not! I guess I'm just having one of those days when I really would like to be doing something else ... anything else ... other than work.

If you're facing one of those days then, like me, you really only have two options. You can always give in and step away from your desk and do something ... anything ... just to give your self a rest from the task you've been working on.

Sometimes giving in to the temptation to step away from your work can be good for you ... just so long as you don't beat yourself up too much for taking the easy option. Time spent away from the computer doing things that aren't work related can be very therapeutic for you and you can come back tomorrow refreshed and ready to go on.

The only other option you have is to try and push through that mental barrier that wants to stop you from working. Sometimes that's easy to do and it's something that I do often. I just sit down and start doing whatever it is that I really don't want to do and sooner or later I'm back in the groove of working and I haven't even noticed the transition.

At times when it's not so easy I'll just keep on pushing myself to work. I'll set small time goals ... I'll just try getting this or that done for another 10 minutes and when that 10 minutes is up I'll give myself another 10 minutes and eventually I'll stop thinking about time and just go on working to get the job done.

At other times when it's not so easy to get some work done I'll set myself some rewards. If I can just get this job done I'll treat myself to a cup of coffee ... or I'll have lunch once I've finished this or that task.

Right now I'm telling myself that I won't have lunch till I've finished this column and after lunch I won't go and play with a new toy that's sitting in our garage until I've done something to make my office a little less of the mess that it is at the moment.

All that stick and carrot stuff ... and that's really what it is ... may sound rather silly to some people but when you work for yourself and you work long hours and just about every day of the week you reach the point where you simply don't want to work. It's at times like that when you have to resort to a little psychology to help you get over it and get on with the work you have to do.

So if you're facing the same sort of day that I'm looking at just take a few moments to set a few short-term goals intermingled with some rewards that you can give yourself if you achieve those goals and you'll find that you will make it through the day ... and actually achieve something too.

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