Comments on: If you are only going around once… http://hardwonwisdom.com/hard-won-wisdom/relishing-in-the-chaos-of-the-moment/ Fawn Germer Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:36:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Linda J. Brown http://hardwonwisdom.com/hard-won-wisdom/relishing-in-the-chaos-of-the-moment/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Linda J. Brown Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:01:34 +0000 http://www.hardwonwisdom.com/?p=196#comment-26 Fawn, I love it! The fun began this gorgeous, sunny morning as I read the above post...about me. (Fawn's my best buddy). Who'da thunk that I would become a Type-A personality this late in life? At least, I was last week trying to get my manuscript and cover design ready and today, arrrggghhh, the burden is upon me to transmit it all flawlessly to the printer - an institution which I am very much in awe of and therefore, very nervous about. Fawn,in that same email, I said that I couldn't think far enough ahead to imagine the fun. You know what? That's not so, I realized yesterday as I walked to Caladesi Island along the beach. I'm already having fun dreaming up the biggest, most preposterous, book promotion/marketing scheme you ever heard of, which will be a blast if I can pull it off. It is not a small plan, believe me and it will be a real hoot if I'm allowed to do it. You don't know about this audacious idea yet because it has been forever and a day since we've taken an exercise walk together, and frankly, I will feel silly telling anybody until I know if it will fly...which could be four to six weeks from now. In the meantime, I chuckle to myself along the beach. writing life large in my imagination. My problem is that I'm a Wide-Screen Dreamer and not a Nitty-Gritty Detailer and these pickly little duties (like, ummmmm, sending my material off to be made into a book)get in the way of the really big stuff that I suddenly think up to do to take it to the next level. So, the frustration lies in the perceived holdup of plans. I want to do it all at once...and therein lies the wisdom of the speed bump. Fawn, I love it! The fun began this gorgeous, sunny morning as I read the above post…about me. (Fawn’s my best buddy). Who’da thunk that I would become a Type-A personality this late in life? At least, I was last week trying to get my manuscript and cover design ready and today, arrrggghhh, the burden is upon me to transmit it all flawlessly to the printer – an institution which I am very much in awe of and therefore, very nervous about.

Fawn,in that same email, I said that I couldn’t think far enough ahead to imagine the fun. You know what? That’s not so, I realized yesterday as I walked to Caladesi Island along the beach. I’m already having fun dreaming up the biggest, most preposterous, book promotion/marketing scheme you ever heard of, which will be a blast if I can pull it off. It is not a small plan, believe me and it will be a real hoot if I’m allowed to do it. You don’t know about this audacious idea yet because it has been forever and a day since we’ve taken an exercise walk together, and frankly, I will feel silly telling anybody until I know if it will fly…which could be four to six weeks from now.

In the meantime, I chuckle to myself along the beach. writing life large in my imagination. My problem is that I’m a Wide-Screen Dreamer and not a Nitty-Gritty Detailer and these pickly little duties (like, ummmmm, sending my material off to be made into a book)get in the way of the really big stuff that I suddenly think up to do to take it to the next level. So, the frustration lies in the perceived holdup of plans. I want to do it all at once…and therein lies the wisdom of the speed bump.

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