Category: WordCamp
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Embrace your mediocrity by helping others
In my WordCamp US talk, I suggested three different strategies to embrace your WordPress mediocrity. My last two blogs have contained some more in-depth thoughts about two of those strategies – being authentic and working together. For this article, I want to explore the third strategy to embrace that feeling of not being “good enough” at WordPress: helping others. I know…
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How collaboration can help you embrace your mediocrity
While preparing my WordCamp US talk, I started thinking about the ways that I’ve worked together with other people in the WordPress community. As a freelancer, I work in solitary confinement in my home office (membership to a co-working space is on the wishlist!), and I don’t often get to collaborate with other people. When I worked in…
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Why you should be authentic, and not just in WordPress
In my WordCamp US talk, the first strategy I suggested to embrace your WordPress mediocrity is to be authentic. But finding your authenticity is easier said than done. It can be hard to find your true voice, and even harder to express it proudly. For a long time, I struggled to find my voice in my business.…
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What I could do better at the next WordCamp
Usually, the new year brings with it a lot of hope, resolutions, newfound motivation, and positivity about the year ahead. So it may seem a little strange to start the year off on a reflective note. But I did something big at the end of last year. Something that I want to reflect on, I…
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How to Embrace Your WordPress Mediocrity – the WordCamp US video
All my life, I’ve felt somewhat mediocre. I decided to embrace that feeling and get up on stage to talk about it. I had applied to speak at WordCamp US in Philadelphia on a whim, because I know that speaking at a conference makes you much more engaged with it than you otherwise would be. But…
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Free WordCamp US printable: “Good Enough” buttons
If you were at my WordCamp US talk in Philadelphia, you would know that I deemed everyone present to be “good enough.” I handed out buttons so people could proudly declare that they are good enough! Unfortunately, I did not do a good enough job at getting enough buttons made up… and I know that many…
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How to Embrace Your WordPress Mediocrity
Today, I gave a talk at WordCamp US in Philadelphia, encouraging everybody to embrace their mediocrity by being authentic, working together, and helping others. Remember: you are good enough!