15 days old and counting

byashkh

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9 years ago

Hooray, I'm 15 days old!

In the WA community, that is.

So I'm still very much an infant and taking baby steps. But for the first time, I feel optimistic that I can walk this journey further than any attempts I had tried in the past.

There are lots of great things about WA, but two WA characteristics which have been really helpful to me, and which I haven't yet found anywhere else, are:

a. The helpful, active WA community.
I've lost count of how many questions I've asked in only 15 days. And each time, I either found an answer at once (because someone had asked it before or posted a training tutorial about it) or I got an answer within a day or two. Thank you, my numerous teachers and friends!

b. The bite-sized lessons
Even in my earlier attempts at getting into online writing, the mantra "Take things step by step" or variations of it was repeatedly mentioned. So I knew it. In theory.

But in practice, it's really tough sometimes to remember it when I look at the thick binder of course materials or the hundreds of pages in an eBook. I would feel like there're dozens of things I need to do, at once, at the same time, and I feel so overwhelmed that I end up not doing anything.

If Kyle and Carson put all the WA lessons together as a book, it's a safe bet that it would be a thick book with hundreds of pages too. But instead they lay it out over 5 courses, each with 10 lessons. The video in each lesson is also less than 30 minutes (at least in Course 1) and the "homework" are two or three very specific to-dos.

I've hence found it easier to just focus on getting through each small lesson and completing the two or three very specific to-dos. I ignore all the future lessons. And it works! Even when the to-do is simply "Create three pages in Wordpress (no content writing yet)", it feels like an accomplishment. A small one, admittedly, but it means one small step closer to my eventual goal.

So I managed to complete Course 1 yesterday. It took me 15 days but still, I completed it! And I decided to celebrate by doing something else which I've not done before - post a blog post. So here it is - a celebration of my completing Course 1 as well as a big, grateful Thank You to you, my fellow WAers!