Yesterday I finished migrating Everyday Mindful Living** from the old web host to the new one. It was a scary project for me to undertake, but I’m so glad that I did it. The actual process wasn’t nearly as difficult as the worrying, it was just extremely tedious.

Isn’t that true of so many things in life? I know I get frightened of things, and I’ll spend a lot of time and energy fretting over them. Thoughts about what could go wrong flash through my brain. I look at what I want to change, and it feels big and intimidating and undoable.

When I started feeling that way about this transfer, I did the same thing that I do whenever I feel anxiety about a project mounting. I took a deep breath and then started researching and planning. I read several articles on how to make the transfer. I bookmarked the one that explained things in manner that made sense to me. I then made a list of all of the steps I had to take, from setting up the new web host, to backing things up, to exporting files, and so on; I listed every single detail. Once I had everything done, I spent a couple of days reviewing it. I tweaked my plan a bit, made sure I had a safety net (my plan to simply post everything again if I somehow lost it all) and then I made myself take the jump.

I could have spent much longer waiting, but that would have only made the task grow bigger in my mind. I set aside time that I could work on it [relatively] uninterrupted, and worked through my plan step-by-step. And it worked. I’m pretty sure the entire site has transferred.

I have one big step remaining, and that is to pull the plug on the old host. I have this flicker of fear that it may somehow cause some unintended consequences, especially since I’m still holding my domain name there. But I think that just like everything else to do with the transfer, it’ll be okay.

If you notice anything strange, please let me know. It means I probably forgot to change a setting somewhere. My settings and defaults did not transfer over, so I had to manually reset everything.

And as you go through your day, remember that big, intimidating tasks are often not as bad as we make them out to be. They may take a lot of work, but it’s usually manageable if we take it step-by-step.

UPDATE: This site used to be called Everyday Mindful Living.  It is now called Everyday Intentional Living (you can read about the reason behind the name change HERE).