Welcome to The Cracking Nut blog’s new home! This new website has been a long time coming. My intention was to transition in January, 2015! But ya know, life… and procrastination… and fear… and getting too comfortable. Isn’t that so often why we end up staying where we are?
If you’ve been redirected here, you’re in the right place, no worries, and will find all The Cracking Nut posts here safe and sound. The journey continues, I assure you, but with my own name, rather than The Cracking Nut. Using my own name will allow me some added freedom, but also it just makes my life much easier and will help streamline things, like branding and marketing.
If you’re anything like me, you do things when you make up your mind to and then God help whoever tries to stop you. So it was with this new site. Despite having been paying for hosting and a domain for over a year, it wasn’t until February when it really started to bug me. I felt stagnant. I needed a new project.
Then it was decided. I had never used, let alone seen WordPress, had absolutely zero experience with web design, and had nothing but an article bookmarked a year ago to inform me how to transfer the blog. But I had made up my mind to get to work anyway.
I delayed so long because the task was daunting. As The Cracking Nut grew in number of blog posts and popularity, the thought of starting over and figuring out a seamless transition was enough to make my stomach hurt. I experienced every thought I wrote back in October’s post, Stop Delaying the Pursuit of Your Dreams. I don’t know how to start. I’m not ready. I don’t know what I’m doing.
But I decided to make this site a priority and started with a phone call to my web host, one small step, which set the next two weeks in motion spending every spare moment hard at work. Because I practice what I preach over here, when I want something bad enough, I work hard for it.
I am astounded by what I have learned in so short of a time. It’s as if two weeks ago I didn’t know the alphabet and today finished Dostoyevsky. Hopefully you know by now I don’t say this to brag by any means — how little I knew is quite embarrassing, actually. I tell you to remind you that you have no idea what you can achieve in as short a time as two weeks as long as you make a commitment and prioritize!
So, welcome! I very much hope you like the new set up and use of categories and search field to help you find the most beneficial posts. I’d love to hear what you think in the comments or you can drop me a line via the “Contact” page (fancy pants!).
THANK YOU one million times for your continued support.
Let the journey continue…
