Creating Space

I’ve just published a book.  For almost a year, I’ve been spending significant hours every week working on this project.  It was a joint project, so I’ve spent time writing to my co-authors and coordinating our various priorities.  It was a book project, so I’ve spent time polishing the language and trimming out the errors.  It was a publishing project, so I’ve been learning how to work with a publisher and developing my delegation skills.

And it was a life coaching project.  So all along, I’ve kept my eyes on making it useful to its readers.

It’s quite a thrill to see a project like that complete.  Now I can look at it and see that it is good.  The cover is beautiful.  Each of my co-authors has brought her own expertise and perspective to specific life challenges, and the chapters rock.  I can now hold in my hands something that was only an idea last December.

The satisfaction of completing a project like that is enhanced by the long effort I put into it.  I’ve made something - more, I’ve exercised the persistence and discipline to continue work on this project through ups and downs these eleven months.  I’m here to tell you that it does pay to plan and persevere.  And even a long term project does come to its end, step by step.

Have you felt the urge to start a long term project?  Would you like the sense of accomplishment for tackling and completing something really big?  What would it do for you, to know you had persevered to accomplish a significant project?

If you are hesitating, try taking a small step.  The view at the end is worth it, I promise.

Oh, the book?  It’s called Changes of the Heart.  We’re throwing a coming out party for it December 1 and 2.  I’ll let you know all about that next time.

May you receive the exhilaration of completing a challenge that fully tests you.

With all my best wishes,
Anna