Having Mac issues

For about a month now I have been having the dreaded spinning beachball problem. But I just kept ignoring it because I didn't want to take the time to figure out what was up. My last resort was to take it in for repair which I couldn't afford. Finally, I was having more spinning beachball than use while working on my iMac. I'd had it! Started with Google and searched spinning beachball and found a forum suggesting to "repair permissions". So I did and now I have no: