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Author Insight
Working the Problem
In this excerpt from Power Multiplied, Shannon has suffered serious trauma and regains consciousness. She fights her confusion to try to figure out her situation. She tries hard to work the problem. I am sure that in the current crisis each of you has problems overflowing. Sometimes, in our panic or our anxiety or our depressed moods, we stare at our problems, assign blame for our problems, get upset at our problems, but we forget to work our problems. Working problems can be very efficacious because if we work them hard enough, we forget the panic, the anxiety, the depression: it is a matter of focus. Working a problem is different from taking a stab at a solution or trying the first thing off the top of the head. Working a problem means undertaking an organized effort. It means going with plans B, C or perhaps even D if plan A didn't work. It means concentrating. It means giving up our panic and anxiety for a moment in order to think things through. And that is a good thing.
Book Excerpt
Power Multiplied
SHANNON’S HEAD BOUNCED, her cheek hitting something slippery and hard.
That hurt. Shannon cast about her mind for an explanation of the painful thump. Couldn’t think of one. Couldn’t think much at all, really.
She rested for a moment, not worrying about thinking.
She stirred. She ought to figure out her situation.
Okay, open the eyes. Get some input. In her head, she gave the signal to her eyelids. Open. She waited.
Nada. Brain link to eyelids apparently not online. Fine. She kept them closed.
What else could she learn?
One: She was lying on her stomach with her left cheek resting on a smooth surface. Sand?
Two: the air smelled of brine, birds, the vegetation of the sea.
Three: she was listening to the slap of waves.
Maybe the incoming tide was pushing her along, then bouncing her head on the wet, hard, compact ground when the tide receded. Yes, maybe on a beach.
Four through fifteen: Cold. Very cold. Not in California then.
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