Lesson learnt and how not to waste time

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As a new member here at WA and still in full time employment, albeit with an insecure future, I really can’t afford to waste time. My day job is not 9 – 5, it migrates into evenings, weekends… leaving little time for anything else. Setting a new routine and a good deal of self-discipline are required to learn, learn more, write, check, dismiss, learn, write again…well, you know how it is. And then there is the website building. I would be dishonest if I said that it didn’t worry me, to say the least. To start in lesson three was, I felt, too much of a challenge. After all, I am of a generation that was not born with a remote control in my tiny fist. Maybe this whole idea of online marketing was more for a younger generation. You see how easy it is for fear to generate doubt?

Then I watched Kyle’s video and of course everything was easy and straightforward. No more fears. No more doubts. I can do this! Except, it didn’t work. Something was wrong on my site that didn’t allow me to do what seemed so simple in Kyle’s demonstration. I watched again. I tried again. I read WP help sites, read blogs, tried to contact WP, asked the WA community and got one kind suggestion. Nothing. Instead of learning I wasted all my free time for three days! Early this morning I listened to Kyle’s video again. And suddenly I heard it, the one crucial sentence that did not register before.

Everything is fine now and as it should be. Except that I feel foolish. I am an educator and teach, among other things, listening skills, and here I am, making such a huge mistake, wasting so much time, letting self-doubt buildingup – and all because I didn’t listen.

The lesson I learnt? At this point at WA I am a student. Making money right now is secondary. It will happen, I’m sure. But first and foremost I must listen and learn and never again waste my precious time.

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It's OK. It's a realization we have to come to as teachers, and as well as others, that sometimes we have to just sit down and listen and learn. We spend a lot of time doing, and we need to spend a lot of time learning because this is new to us!

If you get stuck on anything else, send me a pm, and I'll see what I can do to help.

So sorry you had to go through that, but definitely a great lesson learned!! It can be so frustrating when you think you're doing everything right, only to have it not work the way you expect.

Thank you! Shocking when you find out you could have avoided it all.

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