Well, I finally put on my big girl pants and got to grips with the many mysteries of web design! To be honest I have been avoiding it because a chorus of voices in my head had a lot to say on the subject – “what do you know about web design?!”, “you’re hardly a tech genius…”, “what if your design tastes are wildly out of date?”, “is it really worth it, who’s going to even see it?!” and so on and so on until I found I had spent weeks procrastinating with literally every other administrative job under the sun….
Thankfully, I got coached into it. On our recent final online course, a very lovely coach in a chic office in Northern Europe was paired with me and we talked about what I was avoiding. And she called me out on that nonsense quick-smart. Not in a negative way, but with a “what on earth makes you think you can’t learn to do it?!” attitude that made my hesitance seem ridiculous rather than shameful. I’ve mastered harder things (I learned to hang wallpaper from a man called Brian on YouTube) and I created content for a personal finance website for years, so something must have rubbed off on me there, and more importantly I’m a rabid consumer of websites I consider tasteful, interesting or quirky. Did I remember these things myself? No I did not. Did some straightforward questioning from a fellow coach clear my head on the matter and get me in gear? Abso-flipping-lutely!
So, after a few (ok, many) hours spent watching the ever-sunny tutorials of a lovely Dutch chap called Ferdy, I put together this new website. It contains all the info I think people need to decide if they’d like to try coaching, plus all the practicalities. I hope it has a bit of me infused into it, and allows potential coachees to hear a little of my voice before our first chat. Obviously I am thrilled that despite being such a newbie it also appears to work.
Aside from you being able to read this on a functioning page on a functioning site, there is a glaring Big Point here, and that is that yes, I had the inner resources to build a website all along and a coach prompted me to remember that with skill, openness and objectivity. She was cheerleading before I even started and I will email her with the result, which she will, I am sure, meet with a knowing smile and a cheeky, “Told you!”. She was right and I love her for it!