Encouragement to complete my personal projects

I stumbled upon Nathan Barry months ago but not really sure how, most like someone retweeting something of his that was interesting. I have signed up to his newsletters which has been great, but the latest blogpost is exceptional. Not only does it describe the very position I am in with Chuych, it has encouragement enormously.

It's confirmation of my belief not to live on "What if's" but "Oh well's."

Please read his post and let me know if you got anything out of it.

Nathan Barry - This Moment

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

I have been very aggressive with my goals on learning Ruby and Rails and despite the fact that I am still ahead of schedule with Bloc, I found myself a bit down because of my shortfalls as the training wheels were removed (the tutorials no longer give you the code you need to attempt write it out yourself first). I spent the 2 separate 3 hours sessions just tying implement comments on my app and still didn't get it quite right, break my personal rule of not waiting to long to ask for help. I am definitely being a little hard on myself thinking that I have failed since I am not a Rails rockstar yet (I am over this now..see below).

"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you." - Muhammad Ali

This morning I read this quote from Muhammad Ali that encouraged me help change my perspective. The quote was spoken to a High School student that sought Ali's advice on whether or not to attend college, feeling he was inadequate for higher education. I am definitely happy I am on this journey and even more grateful I am able to have the help of my mentor that will assist me with my last Comment Controller error this afternoon. I am sure that if I didn't sign up for Bloc I wouldn't of quit, but because of the program I am able to only spend 6 hours on a issue rather 6 days and then proceed with learning. If you are have a mentor or come into an issue, try to really solve it on your own but make sure you have limit on how much time you throw at - It's all part of the learning experience.

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Its also nice to see different people starting Bloc. I'm about to learn about Omniauth and implementing a Facebook login functionality. The next section is all on the beautification of my app.

Shout out to @surgerunner and @jeterrell. Follow both of them on Twitter if you have been at all contemplating @trybloc.