Recently, I was writing a document on my computer and if we were talking about word count, I was balling. I did 3K words in a single day and I was super happy.
I slept off on my desk that night - when I woke up, I randomly shut down my computer so I could retire to bed.
I didn't save the document that I was working on.
The next day, I turned on my computer and went back to my document - luckily for me, Ms Word auto saved my document and I didn't lose my file.
The next night, I slept off on my desk again and I didn't save my file - I was at 4.2K word count that day.
The next morning, I woke up to my document with 2.8K word count. I was lucky the previous day due to the "Auto save" feature but I didn't save the file that was brought back to me so, I was at the risk of losing 1.4K words due to my negligence.
I ran various recovery programs and I could only get back 200 words.
That loss was really affecting... It took me weeks to get back into that zone and sped past 5K word count.
Now, some physical losses tends to have a psychological effect on people. I was averaging 1.5K word per day before the incident and I couldn't get back to 100 words per day after the loss.
It took me a while to get back to where I was. I faced my fear and I overcame it.
Facing our fears early enough is vital to avoid becoming our undoing.
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