LWPS is a very unique¹ blogging platform. It is a place where you can create public, private, and semi-private posts about yourself and your lifework/career planning activities. Those confidential posts to and about yourself are just like entries you would make in your personal diary or journal².

But, unlike paper diaries/journals, you can edit, revise and develop your posts as your life and work evolve.

That process of creating, reviewing, reflecting upon and revising your posts, focuses your mind and your thinking and engages your in an empowering conversation with yourself (and others, if you wish) that provides a foundation for lifelong lifework/career planning and decision-making. That process - along with using your LWPS blog as the repository for your lifework/career planning posts - is the essence of LWPS.

When you capture your experiences, feelings and thoughts in "black and white" in your posts, you can see what you are thinking, you nail down those thoughts and ideas running around in your head so you can study them and ask yourself "Is this really true for me? Is this me? Is this what I want?".

Scotty Reston of the New York Times once said, "If I can't read what I write, how do I know what I think?"

When you discover your truths, you now have data, information and knowledge about yourself that you can use to plan for your future and to respond to unplanned events.

Writing about yourself is a way to evaluate what you have done, what you are doing and what you need or want to do. That leads to self/personal-development and career development and - if you want - LifeWork development.

There are many other people, websites and processes that implore you to write about yourself. Here are just a few.

If you choose, you can have a restricted lifework/career planning "conversation" (comments and replies to posts) with other LWPS members who might be your friends, a family member, a school counselor, a career counselor, etc.

So click on the Getting started with your LWPS account here or in the Brief Description box to the right. 

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¹ Click on the "About LWPS" link in the upper right corner to read the purpose and value of LWPS and learn why LWPS is unique.

² According to Deepak Chopra, " ... journaling ... (is) one of the most important tools we have to transform our lives." (Source [lower right sidebar]) [More (private for now)]

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LWPS is a collection of many personal and community blogs. (Browse a list.) Each blog is a collection of posts and a unique sidebar on the right.

As you click on links in posts, you may go to different blogs or other websites and you could get lost. The following tips should minimize that.

1. Usually, you can click your browser's "Back/Return links/arrows" to return to where you were before you came to the post you are in.
   
2. I will be adding a list of back-links at the bottom of my posts (see below) to take you back where you were, or to other appropriate posts or communities. (I just started, so it will take me a while to do this for all of my posts. If I missed any, add a comment to tell me.)
3. Although somewhat tedious, you could write down post numbers of key posts as you explore LWPS, then you can edit the URL in your browser's address box above, and hit the enter key and go to that post. For example, if you wanted to go to post # 3180, you would edit the URL for this post and change 3306 to 3180, then hit the enter key.
4. When all else fails, just click on "Your Blog" in the upper left corner to go back to your personal blog.
   

Now, use one of these hints to get back to where you were.

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 To find this post again, type "lost",  "found' or "navigate" in the "Search" box in the upper right. 

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Click your browser's BACK/Return arrow to return to the post that brought you here, or return to

• About LWPS
• The beginning of the Roadmap or Creating your first post in your personal blog
• Why is creating lifework/career planning posts in my personal blog so important?
• The four (4) most important aggregating posts in your personal LWPS blog.
• Site Map of posts related to the three (3) seeded webspaces created when someone registers.
• How to use this Homeschooling community in LWPS

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LWPS offers a WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get") editor.  You can find that option in your "Account Settings" (upper right corner) at the bottom of that webpage. The WYSIWYG editor is defaulted to "Yes". You can switch this to "No" or "Yes" as often as you wish.

The WYSIWYG editor makes it (very) easy to create posts, particularly by COPYing all or portions of other posts and PASTEing them into your posts and editing them to your liking. Note: We encourage you to provide a link back to the COPIED post with an attribution to acknowledge that author's work.

You can COPY an entire post and PASTE it into a new or edited post and retain most of the formatting except complete URLs in hyperlinks.

1. First, select (highlight) the text you want to COPY.
   
2. Then press Ctrl and C together to do the COPY (If a MAC, use Cmd and C)
   
   1. Ctrl X (MAC, Cmd X) CUTs selected text.
3. Then go to you new or edited post and locate where you want to PASTE your clipboard.
   
4. PASTE using Ctrl and V (MAC, Cmd and V)
   
5. Fixing hyperlinks
   1. You must change the URLs in all hyperlinks. Just go back to the post that you want to link to, COPY its URL, then click on the "Insert/edit link" button above and PASTE the URL in the "Link URL" box.
   2. If there is a Table of Contents in your post, you must edit it after you COPY/PASTE it into your new post by doing the following.
      1. An anchor is the location where one will go when they click on the link for that anchor. Links to anchors are preceeded by a pound sign "#'. Find each occurrence of a link to an anchor and remove all text between "Href=" and "#". For example, here is a partial example of an invalid link to an anchor - <a href="../3585.html#awareness">. Here is what that link should look like - <a href="#awareness">. "../3585 .html" must be removed. If there are multiple "(Top, Bot)" links, change the first one, press UPDATE to save yoru changes, then COPY the "(Top, Bot)" you changed and PASTE it over the remaining (Top, Bot)" links. (We will submit a bug report to the developer of this WYSIWYG code.) 
         

If you prefer editing the source text and html codes, either select the "Html" link in the command bar in the editor, or change the editor option to "No".

Please do not duplicate posts. Link to them instead. Remember that one of the purposes of LWPS is to promote social learning and collaboration. Plus, unnecessary posts in your blogs increases your storage use and thus may trigger a request for a donation. (See the "Tip Jar" link above.)

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Click your browser's BACK/Return arrow to return to the post that brought you here.

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Below are color codes and associat4ed html command. At the end of each line is how I use these colors.

Use the LWPS WYSIWYG editor to copy the italicized text to color <font color="#ff2233">this text red</font>.

1. ff2233 - red to add emphasis to my text.
   
2. CC9933 - gold
   
3. 901800 - blackish emerald for "Return to ..." for navigation.
   
4. 008844 - turquoise for using the WYSIWYG editor to COPY/PASTE text and links. (See below.)
   

See color chart) [I need to check out this one further - http://www.colorsontheweb.com/default.asp

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If you want to link to this post, use the LWPS WYSIWYG editor and COPY/PASTE the following.
Using the Html codes for colors

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