When I launched this website (first as kellyazevedo.com), way back in 2011, I’ll never forget how anxious I was about learning WordPress. I didn’t know code, was worried about uploading and then losing all my content and, frankly, I didn’t want to look like an idiot figuring it all out.
So as I complained and worried to my friend Patrick, his repeated assurances that I could “figure it out” were of no help whatsoever. Finally, I just asked, “if it’s so easy, can you show me how?”
And in the days before zoom and virtual classrooms and 783,000 YouTube videos on every imaginable thing, we got on Skype and Patrick showed me how to blog on WordPress.
It was, embarrassingly for me, super simple to do.
But I can see a world in which I let “I don’t know how” stop me from making progress and hitting publish on that first post.
It really annoys me when someone says to learn something you just need to “fix your mindset.”
It’s not in your head.
There are things that you legit do not know how to do. Yet.
So how do you get over that roadblock and keep going?