Writing a book!

Speak Less by Laura Kimball



What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know I. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


I once received a fortune cookie that read: “Speak less of your plans, you’ll get more done.” What’s one project that you’ve been sitting on and thinking about but haven’t made progress on? What’s stopping you? What would happen if you actually went for it and did it?
 
I stated that I was going to write a book on leading like a sinner.  I believe I started speaking this as a goal two years ago.  I have worked on and off, hired a coach to help with the goal along with my own growth, for the last two years.  During that time, I have worked on some of the bigger themes that have been inside of me and written them down within this blog.  At the same time I have asked my self questions about if what I thought was true, was actually true.  Now these questions seem to be reasonable, but I am discovering that they may in fact be resistance to completing the work.  They are questions of doubt.  Questions of fear, wondering if people will be able to hear what I am saying and apply them with in their own contexts.  Wondering if my success has had anything at all to do with me.  Maybe all this happened to me because I got lucky to have a great partner, or find some great employee's.
 
But in fact, I do think God has placed this message in my heart and allowed me to live it in my life.  So the only think stopping me is in fact me. 
 
So I am going to continue, to press on, to complete and then ship this book.  I have no idea where it will lead me, if I will have to travel to promote the book, if I will have to leave my current company if this took off.  I am not sure I want those things, but I do feel certain that God has given me a message and that this message has been a calling on my life.  I was destined to see these truths, and to live out the fruit from them. 
 
Into the unknown I go!