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Even if you fail, fail forward...

This space gives me so much joy, "I can barely contain myself!!!" Yea. I know you want to hit me with the "how come you didn't follow through on your last post?" question. But no worries, I beat myself up so much about it already. Nonetheless, I'll give you the gist of why I've been gone for so long and what's next.

Without a doubt, I did intend to follow up as I wrote in my last post, but somehow... life happened. I started looking at some projects I wanted to start but couldn't continue as I had some freelance blockchain writing to do. So then I decided to wait till I start the ALX program so I can document my progress, teaching you, my favourite buddy, how to do the things I'm learning.

Well, the "D-day" is here. The program kicked off today. Of course, as you know, it's the usual welcoming to the program and encouragement to participate and finish the course. It happens to be more like a computer programming course, though. The expected time input is 280 hours monthly, daily tasks, capstone projects, three sprints of fully loaded curriculum and a specialization sprint, 60k community and smaller groups to learn with, and technical mentors to guide us!

Phew!!! That seems like a lot, right? I said so too.

Having studied Mechanical Engineering, for which I had no passion, and graduated well, this might be a walk in the park. Of course, that is if things like "providing for my family" do not get in the way. And guess what? I don't think it would! For one, I'm a technical writer. Working remotely gives me the advantage of managing my time properly. Although I am still trying to get a regular 9-5 job to improve my financial balance, I feel everything will fall into place in time, even as a freelancer.

I can't wait to dive into the deeper ends of this program for real. However, before I start to teach you all the core details of this program, the image below shows the curriculum of what we will learn together.

Alx program course

Before the weekend, I will teach you what I know about git, GitHub and GitHub desktop. I'm already excited to be here. Are you?

Now, back to the caption. I failed to keep up with several programming courses I started. I was even unable to meet some writing milestones I set for myself. But I choose to fail forward. I never let my failures stop me from starting again or succeeding the next time. This has been the case in several aspects of my life.

So try. And if you fail, learn from it and try again (failing forward). Continue that process until you hit success. As you do, know that I am cheering you on from here.

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