Tweak, Modify, Alter, Change, Adapt
It is my Day 7 today and I’m deliberately slowing down and releasing the accelerator pedal. After the initial rush, I have reached that stage where I’m learning to tweak around the navigation menus of my website and despite my urge to go fast, I feel the need to slow down. Being a newbie, I got confused many a time and while my confusions got cleared (thanks to the ever helpful WA community), there are certain things that are best left on my own. I was really excited when I launched my website (in its incomplete avatar, of course) and it was a proud moment for me. However, as I added a few more posts, uploaded the Privacy Policy and decided to play around the menus to make my site livelier, things got a bit messy for me. I made mistakes. I had to constantly modify and alter the look of my site. I got confused with the utility and difference between a page and a post; changing one from the other completely changed the look. Then, I realised that the free themes can sometimes limit the customisations. All this I learnt in the past two days. In a way, I’m glad that I made mistakes because they taught me to look at different ways to arrive at my desired look and feel of my site. I’m learning to change and to adapt to new things. It’s a long way to the top (if you wanna rock ‘n’ roll)!
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I think that making mistakes is a very good thing. It causes us to go back and reaccess what made us make those mistakes in the first place. It helps us to grow.
This was really a great post.
Stick with the training and you will be surprised at the strides you make!!
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Wow! I like that. Your blog gives me mirthful feelings that you are on the go.
Errors and fallacies are our true teachers above the guide and support we receive from senior members here at WA.
Keep on pushing targeting your huge success ahead. Success has no short cuts having searched for it years together only to make my walking stick blue.
Now that we are in a platform where 8,50,000 plus members are there to assist when our missions get fractious you have no rooms for worry but only anticipating a lot of money flowing in.
Congrats to your 1st jump.
Thanks! WA is really great and despite the little hurdles on the way, there seems to be no stopping me. Have fallen head over heels in love with WA. I'm like eat WA, sleep WA, drink WA, dream WA :)
All very true Sukumarth, making mistakes is a way of learning and yes one of the lessons is to slow down and pay attention to the details. Early in my career I remember a manager coaching me by saying it is not the big things that will mess you up but the little things. Watch out for the details.
Mistakes help me learn better because when I commit them, I have to stop and rethink for a way out. It gives the opportunity to try out new things. This is what's happening with me when I'm building my website.
Nothing wrong with the mistakes you learn from. Well done, keep going and changing pace is helpful too.
WA has kept me hooked, and many years after, I'm doing something I truly love. I don't mind making mistakes. I'm learning. By the way, I'm following you :)
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Wonderful observation . . . the need to slow down. There is a saying, "A rooma zoom zoom, and a boom boom boom!" In other words, if you go too fast, you are bound to have an accident! On the other hand, I like to follow this philosophy,
Control . . . control . . . control. Speed comes later!"
Really get to know how to build your site and make it work, learn the business well, and you will have success everlasting!
So glad to have you with us here at WA!