Ditch the dork!

Have been amazed recently by all the ways that beckon insist demand that I reconfigure old patterns & preferences in order to embrace the astonishing opportunities that keep presenting themselves.

For example....   One new opportunity requires that I set aside my self-image as being technologically timid.  How is it possible I still see myself as being a digital dork?  I initiated Prudential's first online communications bulletin.  Prudential's 50th Anniversary celebrations were a resounding success - employees had a great time & the company got some great press coverage - because of my being able to effectively use 1996 technology to connect regional offices around the country.  On the home front,  Mom was dictating & I was transcribing her Mindwalker1910 postings,to e-mail several years before personal blogging took off.  

And I see myself as someone who can't make full use of a smart phone?  Who lets my laptop go unused because Windows 8.1 intimidates me?  

That's ridiculous.  But it does highlight something that I need to remember with all ages of my friends, from teeny toddler to tootling oldster - from our earliest days, literally from the cradle, we end up with some occasionally whack-a-doodle ideas about who we are & what we can do.  The few - the blessed few - end up with an array of positive, empowering, "You can do it, kid!" messages & images.  Too many of us receive & unwittingly create just the opposite.  And those deflating disabling disempowering images can keep floating up eons after life experience should have shown us how wrong wrong wrong they are.  

Which is where I've been stuck - back in old images of myself as an all-arounder dork, slow on the uptake & too dull-witted to make sense of modern-day technology.  Sitting here, shaking my head & laughing at how ludicrous my former cohorts at Prudential & my current-day friends would find the image of me being some loopy Luddite, unable to fathom new tech or adapt to modern communication modes!  Uttering enjoying all it takes to ditch the dork & embrace a tech-savvy moi!!