A few weeks ago, I was scheduling dozens of posts from the blog to republish them elsewhere. Copy, paste, pick date, hit the button, repeat.
The scheduling interface allowed you to type in the publishing date manually, but once you clicked into it, it opened a full calendar view so you could select the date with your mouse. Eventually, I realized that for all dates beyond three months into the future, the calendar was grayed out. “Oh, I guess I can only schedule so far,” I thought. Then, I closed the tab and moved on, taking what I could get.
Yesterday, I went back to that interface. I looked at the calendar again. Then, I tried something sneaky: I manually typed in a future date that lay beyond the three-month mark…and voilà! As it turns out, you can schedule posts as far into the future as you like—you just have to type the date instead of select it from the calendar. Ironically, I’d been using this method all along. But when I saw that grayed out window…
Some walls are literally made of dust. They shine brick-red but give way at the faintest push. The opposite of invisible walls, these blockers barely exist at all. It is only once they make it past our perception that they seem as solid as concrete.
Don’t let dust walls keep you for too long. Whatever obstacle you are facing, poke the bricks before you take the long way around. They just might give way without making a fuss.