Yesterday morning my trusty desktop PC decided it had had enough. The screen froze and I had no option but to reboot.

Only it wouldn’t reboot.

My PC had downed tools and told me where to stick my 14 hour days without so much as a regular defrag (I know, I know - defrag on a regular basis - the guy at the computer shop has already been on my case about this).

Strangely, things like this don’t really get to me. I see them as temporary problems and not worth worrying about.

So I took my PC to my local computer shop and started working on my laptop. That’s when I received an email from a customer saying that the advertising form on one of my sites wasn’t working.

So I spent an hour or so trying to find out what was wrong before eventually contacting my hosting company. It turned out to be something to do with servers being moved around and was fixed in double quick time (Total Choice Hosting really do rock as their forum members are fond of saying).

Again, not something that really gets to me. A temporary problem that is forgotten soon after it’s fixed.

Without my main PC, I decided to spend the day doing something different. Instead of the work I had planned, I spent my time checking out things I don’t always have the time for. And it has paid off handsomely.

I’ve now got a list of 26 things to do tomorrow, ranging from ideas for articles to new affiliate programmes to promote - including one that is a perfect fit for one of my sites and should earn me hundreds of pounds a year (I know this because it’s a product I’m asked for on a regular basis). Basically 26 things that will improve my business - and 26 things that I wouldn’t have stumbled upon had my computer not crashed.

I also registered four new domain names - all resulting from ideas that came from today’s meandering around the worldwide web.

So when things go wrong - as they inevitably will - take steps to put things right, but  no need to make mountains out of what  in hindsight won’t even register in your memory as molehills. And then go and do something interesting with your time.

Back to normal tomorrow. My PC is back to its old self and I’ve got a long list of things to do!