I’m Excited!
For many months now I’ve been writing a book. I’ve written other books which are sold as e-books online and are business ‘how to’ books, but this one is different and is being published by a company in W.A.
I began a blog (yes another one – I own several) in January 2006 which has proven very popular and when I mentioned it to my business coach late last year he said I should really do something with it and turn it into a book. I thought about that but didn’t do anything about it, and at the following session I saw my coach I mentioned I’d been booked to speak at a Christian Business Women’s Conference in Brisbane for September 2007. ‘Great!’ he said ‘you can launch your book there!’
Up till that point it was just an idea but suddenly it began to take hold and thereafter at each session he would ask me how many words I’d written? I took the idea of the blog and the content and built on it, and wove my story into it, and now it’s soon to be a full-sized paperback – probably to be listed in the ‘self-help’ or ‘Christian living’ genres.
If you don’t have a business coach it is worth exploring. I provide VA services to a few coaches and decided I need to get a coach I didn’t do work for – for a couple of reasons. I didn’t want to have to choose one from the other, but also I felt they would already have a perception of who I am and what I do (based on what I do for them) and I wanted to have someone work with me from a separate viewpoint. And then I went to a networking meeting about a year ago and saw a man from my church who is a business coach. We began talking and things just clicked. Stuart really has been excellent for me. Whilst my business had been moving forward, he’s had me dreaming, planning and pulling out things I had put aside because I was so busy concentrating on running my business. Now I’m looking up and ahead again and the book has become one of those things that used to be in the distant future.
Going this road is new, exciting, scary and full-on. I had to commit myself to write a few thousand words every weekend for months and had it set in my Outlook calendar to nag me into getting the work done. But now it’s done I’m filled with excitement and can’t wait to see the finished product.  Stay tuned!
I was privileged to be asked to contribute to a new book which was launched recently in the US. The book is called “The Business Mom Guide Book” and it is filled with stories of ‘moms’ in different locations who have developed successful businesses at home.
