What Do You Do - Well?

Yes, I know the old saying, "If it weren't hard, they wouldn't have to pay me." But I'd like to get through one day feeling like I know what I'm doing for the entire day.

I work in a dynamic environment, and things—clients, what those clients want displayed on their Web sites—change on a daily basis. That means the worker—um, me—must be able to adapt. Instantly.

I'm 60 years old. My "instant" is your "just a minute". Multiply that by the number of minutes in a day, and you get a good portion of the day where I'm feeling incompetent, incapable, or just plain dumb. It feels horrible.

I try not to succumb to those feelings, but sometimes I just want to sit and sob. Or stick my head in the toilet and flush.

I try to devise strategies to turn down the volume of the you're-stupid voice in my head. Sometimes it works; sometimes not.

Yesterday I sat here trying to remember what I do well. I remember writing and editing and proofreading and indexing. I did all of those well. But it's been a while since I had a job where I did those on a regular basis. It's been three years. Three years of banging my head against a wall on a regular basis. Ouch!

My challenge is to find ways to reincorporate those things I do well into my monthly (or weekly, or daily) life.

What do you do well? How do you make it a regular part of your life? Are you lucky enough to do it for pay?!