At the point of greatest peril an actor in a hokey tin
robot suit entered the scene with his accordion arms flapping wildly
to warn, "Danger Will Robinson! Danger!"
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I started this blog last September by
admitting I felt like Little Red Riding Hood wandering cyberspace
with the Big Bad Blogging Wolf hot on my trail.
I'll be honest even though
it's embarrassing. That wolf is still breathing down my neck.
I need to set up an email sign-up form so nice people like you have access to my newsletters and fun insider stuff. It should be so easy to create, but I keep getting arrested by the techno-police.
I need to set up an email sign-up form so nice people like you have access to my newsletters and fun insider stuff. It should be so easy to create, but I keep getting arrested by the techno-police.
At this moment I'm lost in cyber space
on Planet MailChimp.
Danger Jeanie Jacobson! Danger!
MailChimp is owned by a conglomerate of
out-of-work flying monkeys, bitter because the Wizard Of Oz was their
last gig.
To me their tutorials read something
like:
"Link the snarfbladt with the
poofathon utilizing the source code. However, if you plan to use a
RSS feed, copy the 1st line of HTML into your rebakalator before
dancing a jig in your pajamas. If that doesn't work paste the last
3478 lines of code into the fizzmutter after pulling the flying
giraffes from your doughnut maker."
I expect a flailing-armed robot to roll
into my office shrieking, "Danger Jeanie Jacobson!
Danger! Clicking any link will release flying monkeys and
plunge humankind into utter Planet-of-the-Apes type chaos."
I get frustrated, stop working, and
orbit Planet Craigslist instead.
"Danger Jeanie Jacobson!
Danger!"
Can you relate? Do you want to pursue your dreams, but the flying monkeys of life keep sideswiping you?
Please stop beating yourself up if you haven't accomplished
everything you'd planned...or even started toward your goals.
You matter to God so much that He planned good things for your life:
I know the plans that I have for
you, declares the Lord. They are plans for peace and not disaster,
plans to give you a future filled with hope. Jer 29:11 God's
Word Translation.
Author Angela D. Meyer told me she made a
list of her yearly accomplishments. When she felt she wasn't progressing, she'd look back at what she'd already
done. It encouraged her to keep going, and her book, "Where Hope
Starts," was published last fall.
What direction do you want to go?
What's your dream? I'd love to hear it.
Remember, it's never too late to
start.
Let's move forward together.
I'll even send the robot to keep
the flying monkeys at bay.
