“When all else fails, try a different tool.
When all else fails, try a different methodology.
When all else fails, try a different objective.
When all else falls, ask for help.
When all else fails, find someone else to ask.
When all else fails, get a third opinion.
When all else fails, get another perspective.
When all else fails, get a research librarian to guide you to other tools, methodologies, perspectives, philosophies, objectives.
When all else fails, find a professional to do it.
When all else fails, find a child to figure it out.
When all else fails, weep, moan, and pound the walls.
When all else fails, unplug and plug back in.
When all else fails, shake up the system.
When all else fails, shake up your system--stretch, run,
go to the gym and punch a bag.
When all else fails, laugh at the quandary.
When all else fails, laugh at yourself.
When all else fails, light a scented candle
and watch the flame as you drink in the smell.
When all else fails, drink water.
When all else fails, immerse yourself in water--hot, cold, or hot then cold.
When all else fails, sing an anthem to the trees, the ground, the distant view.
When all else fails, dance a rhumba, dance a tango,
dance a forest witchie ritual.
When all else fails, take a nap.
When all else fails, go away completely, however long feels necessary.
When all else fails, try and figure out what's to be gained or learned if this was the way it absolutely needed to happen.
When all else fails, accept that this is the way it is.
When all else fails, love as is.
When all else fails, walk away.”
―
Shellen Lubin
