My next challenge. Do I have the courage?
I have started writing a book and truth be known, I am dabbling. I am running a business, enjoying my family and meeting my personal needs (hanging with friends and getting some exercise). I am walking the talk. I am balanced.
There is one hitch—writing a book is not something you dabble at. You write a little. You edit a lot. You write a little more. You edit a whole lot more. You look at what you wrote and you think,
“Is that it? All that time and that’s it?” I had no idea how much work it was.
That said, I am happy. I am enjoying writing and I want to write more.
I often tell my clients that careers are more like a set of stairs than a hill. You have periods of great growth and then periods of plateaus. I am perched right now on a plateau about to step up to a period of growth.
To really get growth, I need to scale back other things and just write. I need to take that step off the plateau and up that next riser.
Will I have the courage?
I did it five years ago and I will do it again. My next step up. I just have to figure out how.
