Category: my development

I want it now !

It turns out that as I’m building out my other website, the desire to have the completed project at hand, is eating me alive. I know what it’s like to build a fresh skill. I’ve done it so many times.

I think that this time it feels different because the project is so well defined and I’m building with no hand-holding. I almost feel like a hypocrite. I’ve told my daughter to feel the burn so many times when she’s building a new skill that she has developed an hello-old-friend recognition to that burn. But it has been quite a while since I’ve been this much of a neophyte. I’m a bit disoriented by the emotional component.

Reminding myself to breathe

As I remind myself to breathe through the discomfort and cling not to the desire for the completed project, the wisdom the bubbles up is that it’s about the process. All of it is about the process. There is no “finish”, in fact. I only have to be in the process.

This blog PLUS another blog.

Running a whole blog while trying to build out another website, is probably a terrible idea. Especially for a burgeoning web developer. I do recognize that splitting my efforts in this way is a terrible idea, but I also want to be able to document the process.

I’m actually pretty excited to build out The Foundational Wealth Project. I don’t know how long it’ll take before I feel great about it, but, as you can see here, executing and getting out an ugly minimum viable product is better than waiting for perfection.

I’m launching the FWP asap, and hopefully we’ll get better with time.

Writers gonna write

Of course the other aspect that I want to document, is the development of my writing. I’d like to go back to see where I was. That won’t be so clearly reflected in the FWP. People can recognize good writing, of course, but it’s part of the invisible substrate that gives rise to the content. Here, on RaphaelFreeman.com my relationship to language and writing will be more explicit. Eventually I’ll begin to tackle the subject matters of goal acquisition and these little thoughts will be relegated to side-bar musings. I look forward to those days, too.