Also Month 1: Happily Creating Mistakes- a little inspiration for us all

This weeks lessons and all the fixins’…

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On my first Mastery Blog assignment, I was supposed to create this blog, use a certain theme, add an About Me page, add an Intention Statement page, and post my first positive blog.

*WHEW*

That may not seem like a lot, but for me it was enough to make me a little nervous. I have not used WordPress before and at first sight, I was a little intimidated. Needless to say, I did everything I was supposed to and felt pretty proud of myself for overcoming the initial obstacle of navigating the interface but you can imagine my surprise when I got a 70 on the assignment. I was taken aback!

What did I do?! I couldn’t believe it. My professor’s feedback stated that my Intention Statement was missing from my site therefore I gained ZERO points for that portion of the assignment. I was angry. I couldn’t believe it. Even though I knew I wrote the Intention page and even published it, I had to go back and look for myself because clearly I was losing my mind. It was there. Just like the rest of my pages. SEE?!

Here’s the problem though. I didn’t attach the page to the “Primary Menu” so even though the Intention Statement page technically existed, it did not have an attachment to my blog.

I was so frustrated, I wrote my professor to dispute it. I mean I did do the work! So couldn’t I get some sort of credit for this?! All the other reasons why this wasn’t fair went through my head. For the record it was like 5 o’clock in the morning and I hadn’t slept.

After some sleep and a healthy dose of reality, I’ve come to realize it doesn’t really matter. I mean if possible I’d really love to get credit for that Intention Statement page *hint, hint*, but honestly, at least I did it. At least, I learned to utilize a platform that I have not used before in 3 days mind you and only made a minor mistake of not linking a page to the menu. The page is linked now, but even if I don’t get credit, I’m happy I’m learning. I guess that’s my whole point for writing this post. Nothing super enlightening, just learn from your mistakes and be happy you recognize them. Keep happily creating mstakes, everybody!