{"id":1653,"date":"2019-01-22T21:16:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T02:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:03:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:03:51","slug":"22365-a-little-bit-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/22365-a-little-bit-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"22:365 | A little bit at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This photo popped up on Facebook today reminding me of a daunting project I undertook in 2017 to scan, identify, and share family photos I inherited from my parents. They accumulated or inherited the photos over decades, and I hadn&#8217;t touched the box since my mom died in 2011 making the identification part kind of tricky. However, with my 50th birthday as motivation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jmaddrell\/albums\/72157677049261740\">I decided to tackle it one day at a time starting on January 1, 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A daunting project that had paralyzed\u00a0me with dread became a daily challenge that I tackled a little bit at a time. I got to play around with scanning tools (apps work great in a pinch, but can&#8217;t match even a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00SSXQ7Q2\/ref=oh_aui_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\">moderate end scanner<\/a>), try out a bunch of photo editing tools (unless you&#8217;re a pro, most apps between $25-100 will do a serviceable\u00a0job on the basics), experiment with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/\">Ancestry.com<\/a> (meh) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/\">FamilySearch.org<\/a>\u00a0(this is what the internet was built to do), and connect with extended family in our collective quest to share and compare stories (priceless).<\/p>\n<p>The life lesson of this 365-day experience was large projects can cause paralysis, and the best way to move forward is to (1) start (seriously) and (2) tackle a little bit at a time. That&#8217;s the point of me getting back to posting a bit on my blog each day in 2019. I have sooooooo\u00a0much swimming in my head that I want to get down on (virtual) paper and the best way I&#8217;ve found to\u00a0write is to &#8230; wait for it &#8230; write. A little bit at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo popped up on Facebook today reminding me of a daunting project I undertook in 2017 to scan, identify, and share family photos I inherited from my parents. They accumulated or inherited the photos over decades, and I hadn&#8217;t touched the box since my mom died in 2011 making the identification part kind of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}