LymanReed.com

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If you’ve just closed a tab on Firefox and need it back (I’ve done this before saving blog posts more times that I can count!), all you need to do is ctrl-shift-t to get it back.

To see a list of recently closed tabs, look in the History toolbar item, way at the bottom of the list.

This really can be a savior if there was importanat, unsaved info in that tab!

That’s it.  Just wanted to share that.

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There’s an excellent article on Problogger today that really got to me, especially considering the challenge I’m currently working on:

A Secret to Sustain Yourself as a Blogger

Yup… those A-list bloggers go through exactly the same things we do.

They doubt themselves.

They allow their emotions to get wrapped up in their stats.

But, according to Darren, they push through these things, and they don’t allow their personal worth to be damaged (at least permanently) by the opinions of others.

That’s why they keep going as the path of blogging is strewn with the bodies of the fallen… (Points for drama?  Anyone? )

An excellent lesson for all of us, bloggers or not.

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One of the things I’m doing for the next 45 days is taking part in Bob Doyle’s Boundless Living Challenge.

A part of my own personal challenge has to do with my own output as a writer and a blogger.  I’ve made a commitment to myself that I will produce a new post on each of my four blogs each day for the next 45 days.

This is day three, and I’m already having trouble with this one!

I’ve always wanted LymanReed.com to be more of a hub for my other work on the web… not as much of a blog as a central starting point.

But I just realized something… it’s OK to have a blog just for fun.  I’ve got the RSS feeds from the other sites there in the sidebar…. maybe that’s enough for now.

As a matter of fact, if this isn’t fun, then why the heck would I be doing it?

It sure isn’t for the money.

I even said in my initial post on the Challenge: LymanReed.com will be my playground.

And as a sat down to write tonight - all I could think of were things that I really didn’t want to write about at all.

I suppose my message to myself tonight is… relax!  Have fun with this stuff.

Ahh… that feels much better!

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If you’re anything like me, blogging can sometimes be difficult because of all of the distractions out there on this wonderful thing we call the web.  Trying to focus on just writing while maintaining connectivity can sometimes be difficult (official understatement of the year right there.)

Two things help me stay focused on writing rather than the constant barrage of emails, tweets, and pokes that come my way.

The first is full screen mode in Firefox.  To activate this, you can just hit F11 while Firefox is the active window.  This will change your screen from this:

to this:

This alone will help to keep you focused on what you are doing in WordPress.

But what about comments, and pings, and man oh man I really need to update that plugin now!

If you use the Visual Editor in WordPress, you can use Full Screen mode there as well.

Just find and click this button:

Which will finally bring you to this:

Now, all I have in front of me is what I’m writing, and I didn’t have to go through and close all of my programs and toolbars.

Pretty neat, huh?

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