Simply speaking, 80% of all good is derived from 20% of our activities and/or possessions, give or take a percentage point or two. Ergo, discovering which parts of our lives are contributing the most to our happiness and well-being and then focusing on those areas can have a tremendous impact on our quality of life. I suspect, however, that this principle also works in the reverse. By that I mean, it appears to me that 80% of all of our stress, anxiety, and generalized crap can be traced to aproximately 20% of the things, people, and possessions that are currently in our lives.
That said, I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to do some weeding in my life and in my possessions so that I can find and focus on my 20% that produces good, and rid myself (insofar as I am able) of that 20% which is causing a large portion of my turmoil.
So I am starting here. I’ve removed a couple of posts that are no longer relevant, and will be bringing in some new widgets and new pages very soon. Pardon my dust as I remodel.
It really isn’t difficult at all to set up WordPress on your own webhost. I actually did more than I had to, because my webhost had Fantastico in my cPanel, and it did the installation in a couple of clicks.
Where I ran into difficulty was that I had installed a place holder named index.html, so my wordpress blog template didn’t show up. It only took about a minute on the WordPress site to discover that removing the index.html file was all I needed to do.
The steps I didn’t need: download and unzip WordPress on my home computer, and unzip the theme I wanted to use. Could have skipped both of those steps.
Having blogged a bit on other (nameless, LOL) blogging sites, I was already familiar with the use of a “dashboard” for blogging, so the logging in to post was super easy.
This installation supports blogging by e-mail, but I don’t know yet how to use that, and am not sure I’m going to. I’ll save that for later.