“Success has that weird quality which makes it seem like child’s play after the fact, and totally impossible before.”
- Hugh McLeod
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| Of course, we're not done, but it was a great feeling to see this on launch day. |
Yes, it’s been more than two months since I posted on Cheryl Can. Gee, I get a new cool banner and then disappear? But my time over the past two months (ALL of it, I’m not making this up) has been consumed working with a great group of folks on the finishing touches and launch of the Chief’s new book, Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity. It’s a long title so we fondly call it Leap of Reason and leave it there. You can check out the website or the FB page to learn even more about it (and if you don’t mind, give us a “like” if you visit the page).
The McLeod quote is one I found a few days after the May 19 launch and it made me smile. We still can’t claim complete success on the book although early feedback has been positive. The success I’m claiming is much more pedestrian but equally satisfying: I’m still standing!
Still standing after mail-merging 6,000 letters, still standing after helping to draft 30 different types of letters, still standing after reviewing Kindle and iBook formats for submission, still standing after wrestling with a database daily, still standing after a gazillion other tasks that had to be done. Most important, I’m still standing proudly as part of a team of incredible and talented folks based in Cleveland, Seattle, Herndon, and Washington, DC. We’ve yet to all be physically in the same place at the same time but we hope to remedy that soon.
Of course, the Chief was the driving force, visionary leader. By now, I’ve figured out that what seems totally impossible when you’re in the middle does indeed become child’s play when the Chief leads the parade.
Now, I’m regrouping to regain my physical and mental stamina and then re-focus on blogging, finding some more clients for my consulting gig (two projects on the books, more to come!). Child’s play? Not quite yet, but I hope soon.
What moments in your life were seemingly impossible and then became child’s play? Let me hear about them.
