Well, it has taken me several weeks to figure out how to use WordPress and then upload Thesis Theme and start to write this baby! But here I am!!! I can’t believe I’ve finally managed my way round my domain and the joys of FileZilla, not to mention a few hiccups along the way. I was hoping to use WordPress as a vehicle for some serious – and indeed not so serious!! – bits of thinking about how work is changing. What I hadn’t expected was another real experience of how my own work is changing. I mean, for goodness sake, I’ve virtually become a computer geek in the process of getting this thing on the road!
And isn’t that how it is these days? You start off thinking you’re a ………. – fill in the blank for yourself (In my case I’m variously a coach, facilitator and psychotherapist.) But then you realise that to operate successfully in the world, you also have to add to your job description stuff like admin manager, finance manager, marketing manager, entrepreneur. And that’s before you’ve thought about the joys of getting your head round the technology to support all of the above.
I have to admit that, before I got into this WordPress lark, I was pretty good with Microsoft Office Powerpoint and all those sorts of things, but I have outsourced website development and other “more technically oriented” things, believing that they were kind of beyond me. In fact, I thought that it’d be time better spent for me to be pursuing my direct client work, rather than trying to figure out backroom stuff like computers. But I’ve had a couple of awakenings recently. The first is that actually I have really loved learning all of this technical stuff. The second is that, if computers and technology used to be backroom, that mindset belongs to an era that has long since passed, and that the kind of thing I’m doing now, ie putting out my thoughts on the internet is how things are now.
I’m not at all sure where any of this goes and that’s the other thing that’s so exciting and liberating about all of this: you don’t have to know and it doesn’t have to be perfect, because you’re creating it, as a living entity day by day, week by week. Isn’t that just phenomenal?
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Hi Christine,
Well done on getting your wordpress blogsite up and running. More importantly, it is great to see someone so well equipped to help facilitate new beginnings particularly in the midst of a “credit crunch” and constant news of factory and office closures. I’m sure there are many who resonate with your spirit. Keep up the good progress.
I don’t even know what wordpress is, so I’m really impressed! You must tell me all about it next week at the Sister Snog Let’s Talk Style & Image Breakfast. Can’t wait to see you! I totally agree with your comment about this doesn’t have to be perfect because you’re creating it as a living entity. That’s one of the great things about the Internet.
Hello, Annie. Thanks so much for your comment. I very much appreciate your taking the time to have a look at my newbie blogsite. I’m also really looking forward to seeing you next Tuesday, and loving the fact that, with Sister Snog, we can do a quirky variation on traditional AND new age networking. Got to be the way to go!
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This is one of the most exciting ‘first ever post’ posts that I’ve read during the 7 links challenge. If I may be so bold as to say so, I also love how clearly your voice comes across in this post. I would love to read more like this. Maybe a monthly round up type thing where you talk freely about your highs and lows? We’ll learn loads along the way, have no fear, but this free form stuff is just so liberated and exciting, it’s great.
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Hi Eleanor,
Thanks for being so bold – I’d expect nothing less! Funnily, when I read this again myself I had much the same reaction. I thought, hey, this is actually pretty good. I will write more like this. They’re quicker to write for a start and a lot of fun too. My post today about James comes kind of from this place
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Funny you should mention your post about James. I got that impression as I read it. And being yourself is what makes your blog unique. Anyone can write ’5 easy ways to be happy’ for example. It’s how you inject your pizazz into it that keeps your readers coming back.