Shot Out Of A Cannon Right After Labor Day – Not Me!

For the person that worked all summer so that I didn’t feel like I was shot out of a cannon on Labor Day I sure did a great job!

One of the components of blogging can be about showing the human side of the business, the soft gooey middle of the candy, not just the bright shiny shell.

Just when I thought I was finished writing I found out last Thursday afternoon from my book project manager that the workbook needed a story at the end of each of the 6 chapters to help associate the reader to the assignments to real life situations.

So I made very effort over the Labor Day weekend to both enjoy it and complete the writing of the 6 stories. So on Monday night, the writing wasn’t finished, Tuesday was a full coaching day and my editor was back from holidays with time booked off for the final edits on the book.

This was a time when I am reminded once again about Stephen Pressfield’s quote from The War Of Art;

“Avoid resistance at all cost. Resistance is an all-encompassing term for what Freud called Death Wish. Resistance cannot be reasoned with. It understands one thing. Power. Resistance takes on the form of drugs, shopping, TV, gossip, alcohol, drugs, and the consumption of all products containing alcohol, caffeine, chocolate, fat, salt and sugar. The greatest danger is Resistance knows when the finish line is in site and it will throw out one final assault.”

So what to do? Get up at 4am and coach and write all day until 7pm.

– – with all of this going on, there is nothing like a 6:35am rainbow outside your front door while you are taking the garbage to the curb. Kind of makes you feel lucky doesn’t it!

The 6 stories totaling 20 pages with over 19,000 words went off to my book editor and book project manager for review last night and I am waiting to hear if the stories pass the grade.

Today is a coaching day that has some open time slots to complete some of the other work that is on my plate that includes finishing the power point for next Monday’s presentations for Pro-Seminars in Las Vegas.

Today also includes an interview with Al Emid from The Insurance Journal. Al saw me speak back in May at The Toronto Independent Financial Brokers Summit.