The Digital Coma

The Digital Coma

One very huge downside of technology is what I call the digital coma. Let’s be realistic here. No one likes to do things before they actually have to be done. In life it is called procrastination. In business it is called suicide. And yet as human beings we all tend to do it. Yes, we have the best of intentions on getting it done well in advance of the deadline. And yet when that deadline arrives we are still often not done with it.

Part of this is because we know how much can be done with technology so we tent to think that we can get it done faster than we actually can so we budget our time elsewhere at the onset until it is too late and we are in a crunch.

This is a great example of how freelance or virtual assistance can come in handy. If we are smart we will take the job the minute the guidelines are known and we will outsource the different parts of it to different freelancers so that the various components arrive in our email boxes well in advance of the due date and we can leisurely assemble them into the project we have to do.

In reality what happens is that we put the project on the back burner to take care of moiré pressing things and when our Handheld device tells us the project is due in a week we freak and try to put everything together from scratch and we do a sub par job because we try and do it all ourselves and quickly.

This is another point where the freelance community can come to our aid. If you are at the wire and have more to get done than you actually can get done. Put a feeler out on the virtual job boards like myMusicCircle and get the best talent in the world piecing together the various parts of the puzzle. This will likely get things done on time and with a quality far above what you can do by yourself, That’s because you are looking at the whole picture and know you can’t complete it all on time where the freelancer is looking at one slice of the puzzle and knows he can do it.

Eight people working on eight tasks can do it faster and netter than one. So remember that next time you forget about that project.

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