DOING LESS
Two weeks ago I erased ‘my document’ folder from my laptop by accident, when I was upgrading it. This is absolutely a disaster …- its on the top list of my worst case scenario…. especially for power user like me that put almost everything in that electronic box. This was extremely hard to accept and annoy me much. I have some back up, dated 3 months before.. I rarely doing back up since replacing my old powerbook with Macbook thinking that hard disk failure at this moment is almost impossible.. so again this is my fault to not follow the basic in information management: to back up (wondering how many percent of computer personal user regularly do back up weekly or monthly).
I’m struggling with recovery program that cost minimum $99 – Im about
to buy it thinking that is the cost of my failure.. if it cost only
$30-40 I straightly buy it, but still I think its too expensive.. and
without any guarantee that all your important data can be recovered.
But within few days.. I feel ease with the empty folder.. I re-do my
projects within hours.. I realize that now I could forget many things
related with previous data, spreadsheet, proposals, checklists,
letters, references, compliments.. anything that create open loop in
my brain.. makes the brain restless when working on the computer by
cross reference to file A, check spreadsheet B, look at presentation
C…. And now I must re-do some of my projects…. and so far its
fine.. very fine actually… I got somebody in the office to send me
only data that I need, I can be more concentrate on doing thing one by
one within very short time. I can delegate some of my tasks to
colleague and staffs.. and so on and so forth… I even never touch my
back up CD until today…
I am suddenly doing less from what I’ve done for years.. it is good if
you have records or clippings or historical information, references at
your laptop.. but Im now thinking that such arrangement might not for
everybody.. Keeping everything is not for everyone.. nowadays you can
get somebody to store for you.. hence.. information is changing in
lightning speed.. the key is not how to properly storing the
information, but how to find information effectively.. except you are a
bookkeeper 
now, I can call my accounting, project, HR manager, my
superior or even friends.. to provide me such information. I eliminate
source of open loop and procrastination …
So now I try to do everything less… and do it within very short
period only, means I have lot more time to do other productive things..
I think I am entering new perspective on working …
This is not yet proved to be better in the long run.. but I will find out….
We use Memeo (http://www.memeo.com/index.htm) for backing up all of our data files both at home and at the offices. We DO encourage people that we are working with to upload their working files to our SharePoint Server – so that everyone can access that file anywhere and anytime (if there is an internet connection!!!!).
Dont forget the USB stick … you can use it whenever you need it, just plug it in and play with it … sounds simple and I bet you will enjoy it very much !! hahahaha …
Dont you like our backup software name ???? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha …
Thanks Wen. I checked Memeo, the good news is they have for Mac. Will see if its fit. Actually Mac have its own server .mac, which enable the subscriber to sync automatically with their server. I prefer to have internet disc or server since we usually careless in managing own disk inventory. But the cost is quite high. With USB, seamless operation like memeo would be very helpful..
Give me your backup software for free.. I more than happy to promote it here