Delays due to shopping and experimenting

I returned from my vacation to St Louis more than a week ago.

On the first day, I felt exhausted and sore. Things got better for the next 2 days.

It was my plan to send out a simple summary of my trip with photos and links last weekend.

BUT I learned the hard way that I was not nearly ready to do that or other projects.

I told about my troubles with the online mind mapping service I had been using for years. I was locked out for weeks then I got a few replies but I have not had access to my data from many years. Please pray for me to gain access soon.  The name of the company is Comapping and the contact person is Michael.

The other online service I had been using has become jammed up with a jumble of far too many tasks. I have been limping along with that until I find the replacement.

I had a software download that I started to use before I went on vacation. I had begun to get comfortable with it. BUT when I returned it started to freeze and need to be restarted at the wrong moments.

SO for the past week, I have been shopping for a way to organize my projects and tasks online as well as produce useful digital products.

During this week I have spent many hours using 2 services that seemed promising. BUT their online training and support did not work for me.

SO I went shopping online AGAIN.

I found a service that has ALMOST all I want plus another one that has those missing parts.

So my current challenge is to plunge into those 2 and move up those learning curves.

HOPEFULLY, the summary report will be sent to you SOON. And that will mean that I have found a suitable digital workbench.

IF those prove to be useful for me I will share their names and request your best prayers.

Meanwhile, it feels like the backlog of projects, tasks, and writings is like the growing pond that forms behind a beaver's damn. WHEN I have begun applying these online services daily THEN the stream will flow again.

As I consider the coming months and years I will need a wide range of online services that work together. These will be used to make and market digital educational modules using text, audio and video Also I will lead an online community of learners.

Several times a week the Lord leads me to another website that will prove useful to reach and teach many online. So I put the links into orderly collections for future reference. This feels like encouragement from God during these difficult days. It is like confirmation that the direction I am headed will prove fruitful after I have worked out the techie tools needed to make it happen.

I watch many Youtube videos weekly. I see the home recording studios of musicians who write songs and sell their music as well as the video studios of those who make online lessons. These remind me of the creative settings for offline artists that paint and sculpt. Likewise, there are woodworking shops and machine shops for those that excel in those ways. Considering those settings for people that go deep and wide into their skills helps me to see myself like them as I bring together these online services.

I will be investing a majority of my waking hours immersed in these online tools. So there is no rush to find what might work in the short term if that means I will outgrow it in 3 months and then need to start all over again.

I could go on and on about how I feel that I am 8 months pregnant. The business is living and growing inside me. It will soon become a public reality.

So again I request your best prayers.

Shalom
John