Crash and Burn

Maybe some more textIn my very first blog post I detailed how I would be using Wordpress. I confidently stated that it would be the best for the longterm and that I had experience using it. I even said that in the longterm I didn’t want to have any regrets. And that’s true, I don’t want any regrets, but I already experienced regret within a few weeks. When I went to set up my website on Wordpress.org I discovered that my school district had blocked Wordpress and Wix. This was frustrating for me since I only use my work issued laptop. I’ve never needed another device. So, I figured that I would be able to reason with my friends in the technology department and get the ban lifted. In the meantime I used my son’s chromebook to set up my domain on Wordpress. His laptop is so slow and dinky that it was a very frustrating experience. I assured myself that this was only temporary.

When I reached a point of serious frustration because I was almost at a standstill and I had wasted hours on Wordpress, I realized I had a chance to follow Carol Dweck’s advice and shift my thinking by seeing challenge as an opportunity to grow (Dweck, 2006).  So I shifted over to Wix. At this point I had accepted my fate that I would have no way to access my website through my district laptop. A fine and powerful machine it may be, but I wouldn’t get to enjoy the Macbook Pro while designing my site. I had to break down and purchase a device for myself, which I haven’t had to do for the past eighteen years. I opted for the Mac Neo. It’s a new “cheaper” option that Mac released recently. I was able to set up my website on Wix in a fraction of the time I had already wasted. After one evening I was up and running.