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Unkown Author - If you haven't backed up your work, you haven't done any · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com. Welcome to the Daily Quote, the
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Andrew McGivern. And let's jump into today's
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  quote from an unknown person from the tech world who once
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  said, if you haven't backed up your work, you haven't done any.
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  Think about that for a second. You haven't done any work.
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  Sounds harsh, but it's true. You can spend 10 hours writing a
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  document, but if your computer crashes and you didn't save it,
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  you have 0 hours of work. Not ten hours.
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  Zero. You can spend months building a
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  business, but if you don't protect your contracts, your
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  files, your data, you have nothing.
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  One hard drive failure and it's gone.
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  The work you did doesn't matter if you can't prove it existed.
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  This quote comes from the painful reality of technology.
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  Every programmer, every writer, every designer has learned this
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  lesson the hard way. You lose something important
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  once, and you never forget to back it up again.
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  But here's what's interesting. This principle extends way
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  beyond computers. If you're pursuing a goal, but
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  you haven't tracked your progress, you haven't really
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  done the work because you can't prove to yourself that you're
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  moving forward. And if you've learned a skill,
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  but you're not documenting what you've learned, the knowledge
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  evaporates. If you're building a habit, but
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  you're not recording your consistency, you'll convince
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  yourself you haven't been consistent.
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  Backing up your work isn't just about protecting against loss.
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  It's about creating proof, evidence, a record that says I
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  did this now, I learned this the hard way today.
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  I booted up my computer this morning and I should say I tried
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  to boot up my computer this morning but I got an error
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  screen and it turns out the hard drive that has my operating
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  system on it died when I turned it off last night or when I
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  booted it up this morning. I don't know.
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  But I can't get into my computer or access any of my stuff.
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  So today I'm recording on a different computer that I
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  borrowed to get the podcast done.
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  But I don't have all my fancy plug insurance and templates
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  that make this show sound good. But I have to admit, it does
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  sound good anyway, maybe even better.
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  So perhaps I've been over processing a little.
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  Anyway, that doesn't matter this time around it looks like I
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  didn't actually lose much data because the other hard drive
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  that has all my files on it is hopefully still good.
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  But the show must go on. So I'm working on this computer
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  for now. But enough about me, what about
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  you? What work are you doing right
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  now that you're not protecting? What progress are you making
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  that you're not tracking? Because if you haven't backed it
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  up, documented it, or recorded it, you haven't really done it.
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  Protect your work, protect your progress.
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  That's it for today. I'm Andrew Mcgibbon, signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.