“You must update Windows for Power Saver Mode.”
I’m bad at installing updates. I think it’s a combination of not wanting to be bothered by them and being skeptical that an update is really worth downloading or installing.
How can we really measure the opportunity cost of an update before clicking on a small pop-up or link on our phone that immediately initializes the download? Half the time it’s on accident, and then my Samsung Galaxy S7 spends the next twenty minutes showing me the picture of their Android mascot instead of allowing me to see what nonsense is going on inside of my Twitter feed or what new piece of junk mail has arrived in my inbox.
I’ve been installing a lot of updates recently. Not just on my laptop or my Galaxy S7, but inside myself as well. Like clicking on the little notification box you’ve been ignoring for months and realizing you have 37 “critical updates,” I had a serious backlog of updates to make.
As an entrepreneur on any level, from pure freelancer to someone who works a 9 to 5 and comes home to work on their business to the ‘average’ entrepreneur who puts in 80+ hours a week, it’s easy to forget about necessary updates. These updates are even easier to put off when they apply to our personal lives (what we have of one).
Skype update? Yes, I need that. Exercise? No, that can wait.
As a father of two young boys and a husband to a wonderful wife, I need to stop ignoring personal and family updates and put them before the little pop-up boxes and email notifications that try their best to get my attention. After all, I can get a new computer or phone. I can’t get a new body (not yet at least) or easily trade in my family for another one (nor would I want to).
What updates are waiting on you to accept them?
Take a few minutes today (go on a walk or put down your phone) and think about a couple of vital updates you can install this week and what steps you need in order to keep up with them once you download.
I need to recharge. Thanks for reading!