When Hive Becomes An Inspiration

Hive saved me today. I believe that should have even been my title because it summarizes everything I’m about to say.
I’ve been working on a presentation with a colleague for some weeks now and we got it ready last night. But this morning just 6 hours before the live presentation, the slides weren’t opening. I restarted my laptop like hundred times, and no, I’m not even exaggerating.

I tried everything but nothing worked. In the end, we realized we even lost the file completely. Fear gripped me as time didn’t even try to go slower for us to find our file. I really wonder why that happens. When you’re in a hurry, time runs faster than a cheeter but when you have nothing to do, it’s slower than a snail.

In that moment, I tried rewriting everything that was on the presentation slides from my mind. I really thought it was going to be easy since I knew everything about the presentation. I started nicely but at a point, when I realized I had just about 4 hours to produce something we used weeks to do, I started feeling defeated.

I wanted to just request for extension of submission date but my colleague told me he already did that weeks ago(without my notice). Normally, I would have been angry but time wasn’t a luxury I had, so I brushed it off.

For some reason, I found myself on my hive blog, scrolling through my posts. As I scrolled, I realized great consistency. I found out that I’ve posted everyday of the week since the year started. I also read some posts that I wrote on very bad days and I couldn’t help but smile. “You really did this even on days you were overwhelmed? Wow” I kept whispering to myself.

I don’t know how, but I started getting super motivated and encouraged to just redo the presentation slides. It felt like hive brought some light into the situation. I thought to myself, do you know how hard it is to be consistent? But girl! You did it! And it’s the same way you can do this too.

I’ve been inspired in life but this is on a whole new level. I ended up redoing everything from scratch and it was even better than before. The presentation was really good to the extent that after that session, we had a meeting where my colleague and I were assigned a new project there and then: something that hasn’t happened before.

Anytime something is punching you hard in life, you can always visit your blog. Trust me, there’s this happiness that comes with seeing your blog which will definitely make you feel proud of yourself and inspired on dark days. It always works for me and I hope it does for you too.