Over the last week I have been attempting to get a WordPress blog to work.  That is the blog that you are reading now.  I was using this blog as a test blog to learn some basic concepts that I would need to help re-establish my friend’s blog.

The biggest challenge was getting a post published in WordPress to automatically publish on social media and connection sites like Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. By the end of the workweek I thought I had it all figured out… but no.

Today I spent a couple of hours linking my friend’s site up.  Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn.  After a couple of hours of work I realized that Google+ was posting on his personal page, not his business page.  Crap!  Finally I fixed that with a lot of trial and error.

I double checked LinkedIn and the posts were going there, but they couldn’t been seen.  Several hours later I realized that the only way to post to a business site on LinkedIn was to buy a $50/year subscription to a custom API.. no other way. I hope my friend doesn’t mind too much. The good news is that I believe I have everything working… at least I hope that is the case.

It is now 3PM and my brain hurts.  I need to get out into the fresh air.  However, it does drive home a point for me.  During the last few hours I wanted to just give up many times.  Just as I was ready to do so I decided to push just a little bit more.  That process, repeated and repeated, and my efforts eventually led to a  solution.

How many times do we give up on something just because we don’t want to push that little bit extra? How many times do we continue to push when the best solution is to simply let go?  …Just pondering.

It is 4:32 AM and I have been up for a bit.  Not by a lack of ability to sleep, but rather by a desire to keep up a new behavior.

Although I think there is a wake-up time that exceeds the ability to adjust to it, 4AM is probably not that time.

I won’t go to the gym today, instead I’ll try to do some creative work with Tom.  My goal is to link his new blog to his social media sites, as I have done with this experimental one.  I’m hoping that things will go smoothly, and I like the fact that I’m challenging myself by learning some new technical skills.

Today my goal is to challenge myself and push myself to learn while still enjoying the process.  Today, I feel that goal is a possibility.