You have to be like a bumper car. And you hit the wall and you back up and you go a different way and you go at the wall again. The only thing I know is not to give up. I don’t know how to not give up.
—Cher
I partially agree with Cher, but I would add don’t just blindly keep trying things. As you try things be aware of what you’re doing and how the system reacts. Once you get a feeling for the situation start thinking of experiments you can try to get more information.
I tried that with MailChimp and gathered a lot of data to share with their technical support, and I also tried googling to see if anyone else had experienced my problem. Those approaches often help, but no luck this time.
So I tried something different. I tested MailChimp on one of my test WordPress sites and it worked perfectly. Once I saw that I was almost there. I just looked to see how my settings and plugins differed between the two sites, found the troublesome plugin and disabled it. So I no longer have to send out notices of each new post, MailChimp does it automatically.
It feels great to have that off my list. Now Andy and I are working on our report for the Sandoval County Assessor. Onwards and upwards.
I admire your perseverance!
Thank you.
gold star for you Jean 🙂
I often find I actually have the solution for whatever I’m trying to do – my initial mind says “you’ll have to buy/get another one, or whatever” which usually means I don’t know initially where from. But if I take myself out on a days worth of tripping, often the solution will be found and I can jolly well do it from within – or with something else I own….
a couple of months ago the solution to something outdoors seemed to be buy a chemical – then whilst I was listening to the gardening guru one morning, he had a guy on about “weeds” and the solution he came up with some plants that just won’t die was the same one that the woman from eco- festival suggested just a week later. I have exactly what I need at home…do deal with these kind of weeds!
It’s always fun when the answer comes, isn’t it? 🙂
No point in driving into a wall over and over again. You have to find a way through it or round it. I always say, it’s okay to make a mistake once, but making the same mistake again without having learnt anything is pretty clueless.
Yes, “Stay curious and open to life. No matter what happens keep learning and growing.”