{"id":1067,"date":"2014-07-21T21:19:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T04:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2014-07-21T21:19:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T04:19:31","slug":"when-in-doubt-do-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/when-in-doubt-do-something\/","title":{"rendered":"When In Doubt….Do Something"},"content":{"rendered":"

A good friend of mine who is a great fellow and an excellent therapist has this \"website\"<\/a>adage \u00a0he likes to share: “When in doubt, do something” – meaning that if you are stuck, doubtful about yourself and feeling blue or down, take some action.\u00a0 Move.\u00a0 Do something.\u00a0 It doesn’t have to be a “big” something.\u00a0 It shouldn’t be a “big” something.\u00a0 Any move is a gift.\u00a0 So I had an interesting experience recently that put the proof to that statement and some may find this a helpful story.<\/p>\n

I had been feeling down for a while and was having a hard time kicking it.\u00a0 My website came to the rescue….well it helped me come to my own rescue.<\/p>\n

I really like my website.\u00a0 I worked hard on it and get nice complements.\u00a0 A great designer named Stephan Laenan who lives near Portland put it together for me.\u00a0 I gave him content, he designed it…but once in a while there\u00a0were tweaks I wanted to make and I didn’t know the first thing about how websites are put together.\u00a0 It was aggravating, since I was totally dependent on someone else who rightfully charged me for his time.\u00a0 Last year I bought an Idiot’s book on HTML and CSS (how you create the code to make a website) and after reading it for a few weeks, I was so cross-eyed that I had to put it down – defeated.\u00a0 Then a month ago, \u00a0a lawyer friend of mine was telling\u00a0 me how he created his own site and I thought, “Well, if he<\/em> can do it……..” so I checked a bunch of books out of the library and suddenly had this “Ah-ha” moment and figured out how to make all the changes I wanted.\u00a0 I dove in and over the next week updated everything<\/em> I wanted updated.<\/p>\n

I absolutely felt a spring in my step.\u00a0 A big weight was lifted from my shoulders and I found that things that had been aggravating me only the week before weren’t so important.\u00a0 My mood absolutely shifted because….well, I did something.\u00a0 (And really, it’s not a big deal to learn about website coding, even for a tech dweeb like me.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A good friend of mine who is a great fellow and an excellent therapist has this adage \u00a0he likes to share: “When in doubt, do something” – meaning that if you are stuck, doubtful about yourself and feeling blue or down, take some action.\u00a0 Move.\u00a0 Do something.\u00a0 It doesn’t have to be a “big” something.\u00a0 Continue reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[17,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}