{"id":467,"date":"2014-03-07T15:26:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T06:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.finchproservices.com\/?p=467"},"modified":"2016-01-07T16:08:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T07:08:15","slug":"take-the-shortcut-find-a-mentor-and-apprentice-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/n8finch2024.local\/take-the-shortcut-find-a-mentor-and-apprentice-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Take the Shortcut: Find a Mentor and Apprentice Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"
When I committed to getting on the Genesis Developer list, I hadn’t even bought the Genesis Framework. Granted I had worked with one client on a project involving the Genesis Framework, but that was hardly enough to say time spent with the framework to know anything about it. If there was an issue, I relied heavily on the developers of the child theme we were using. I didn’t have access to the Genesis community forums, tutorials, or code snippets from those who had gone before.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Needless to say, I was a little lost. I needed direction. I needed to know what to do next and what not to do. Both of these would be extremely important. Focused work keeps me from getting distracted, and I know what I need to avoid.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the middle of this realization, Matt Mederos of The Matt Report<\/a> started a quick community board at WP Mentor<\/a>. I quickly signed up and was able to get connected with a mentor who develops on Genesis. I was ecstatic, and couldn’t believe I had found such an amazing opportunity so quickly.<\/p>\n Why did I want a mentor? And what’s this apprentice thing?<\/p>\n Being very new to the WordPress community and especially to the Genesis Framework, I was trying to gain as much knowledge and experience as I could. I paid for a course and started studying up on various tutorials on whatever I thought I needed to know. In between clients, I was trying to teach myself how to backup, migrate and restore sites, make WordPress theme out of HTML, and code a slider (didn’t get very far on that last one).<\/span><\/p>\n All of this led to spinning my wheels and feeling very unfocused. Being in a mentoring relationship has helped me to focus what I’m doing, and incorporates what I already know as well as what I need to know\u00a0at that moment in time.\u00a0<\/i>The concept is “Just in Time Learning” and I am starting to excel at it! Learn what you need, when you need it, and only then. Having the focused direction of what is important and pragmatic will save me countless hours of wheel spinning.<\/p>\nKnowing What to Do<\/h2>\n
Knowing What NOT to Do<\/h2>\n