Note to self: You can not do it all. There is a difference between self sufficiency and a stubborn refusal to ask for help. Even if you are capable of learning something, it often makes more sense to ask for help from someone who already knows how.
This note courtesy of Howard taking over the image editing for Hold on to Your Horses and doing a far better job in two hours than I’d been able to accomplish in two weeks of tweaking. From now on all the image editing needs to stay in the hands of the expert. I’ll stick to layout and design.
The note is also courtesy of Eric Stone who flawlessly implemented my website plan in less than a day. There are still things to tweak, but going solo it would have taken me several frustrating weeks to reach the tweaking stage. Again I should stick with layout. I’m good at organizing things that are already there.
We all need that note now and again, I reckon it should be writ large on something so we can be reminded of it regularly.
The other point is that although Howard is busy, it’s more efficient overall for him to do in 2 hours what takes you 2 days, it leaves you 2 days to do something which you ARE good at and in so doing take some load off someone else.
Exactly. I wish I could have figured it out a month ago.
I think I’m going to put that first paragraph on a Post-It and stick it on my monitor at work.
Excellent idea. Me too.