Hello from WORDPRESS! This gorgeous new website is going on my micro victories list for the year. How did I acheive such a monumental feat, you ask?
It started, as most good things do, with a vacation.
About two days weeks ago, I awoke from my winter Netflix coma and realized it was time to go on spring vacation.
Turns out, I needed those ten days in Sicily to get out of my productivity slump.
‘Productivity slumps’ in my life are tricky.
I am employed full time. This means even on ‘unproductive’ days I do the following:
First, I get up and get dressed. Then, I spend between 20 and 45 minutes on public transit (see related posted about Spanish transit systems). I walk at least two miles. Possibly most important, I drink four cups of coffee. I spend roughly 10 minutes debating the higher level functioning of high volume copy machines and tell at least three teenagers to watch their language ( I teach at a high school)
But you know…I’m not doing anything for ME!
On my productive days, in addition to all that nonsense, I complete at least one big personal project.
I call these my micro victories.
Since I stopped exercising running, project focus rests with writing or how to be independently wealthy. (Except December-April, when project focus lasers in on Netflix, as mentioned above.)
This week I overcame a writing milestone three years in the making!
Three years in the making: I transferred this blog to wordpress.
I hear you scoffing: ‘Ha! That’s easy!’
Well guess what? You’re RIGHT!
The actual act of transferring to WordPress took 5 minutes (plus the very enjoyable hour I spent complaining to my tech-savvy friend on the phone about how I couldn’t do it).
The amount of time that passed between buying the domain and actually transferring the content?
Three years.
Upshots? There are two:
First, I thought so much about this little micro-victory in the past 36 months that it actually feels like something much bigger.
Second, I am now obsessed with WordPress. I plan to start writing posts as fast as Trump is firing advisors! Picture of Sicily below to celebrate:
Beautiful Castiglione de Sicilia!
Banner Photo Credit: Photo by Nghia Le