Aiming For Perfection - What A Waste Of Time That Is

I’ve been busy trying to get my do it yourself life coaching book finished since I got back from my vacation. Entitled ‘Don’t Ask Stupid Questions – There Are No Stupid Questions’ it is a self-help book for people that don’t usually buy self-help books. No, let me back track a bit there. It is a self-help book for people that don’t buy self-help books and people that do. So that’s really everybody on the planet, you included, so let me put you down for several copies.

 

It has been tougher than I thought but still enjoyable and a process that I would encourage anybody to undergo if only because it allows you to surf online to your hearts content whilst pretending you are working.

 

The weird thing is that I have had more trouble deciding what to put on the back cover than I have in the entire book put together. I have spent over a month writing, re-writing, writing again and then scrapping. Then writing and re-writing and scrapping all over again. It was starting to stress me out and that wasn’t right. Not only am I a life coach but I teach people how to manage stress and I was managing my own about as well as an air traffic controller in a fog bound airport strung out on a double espresso with neat adrenaline whipped cream topping.

 

Then this morning my wife said to me “It doesn’t have to be perfect you know”

 

Wow! She was right I was aiming for perfection, something that doesn’t even exist, especially with something so subjective. Also, it was something I NEVER normally do.  If you have ever seen me hang a picture you will know what I mean. As long as it is clinging to the wall, what else is there to do?

 

In fact my book (and this Blog) is full of brutal attacks on the English language the likes of which would have wordsmiths howling with derision and my old English teacher rolling in his grave. That is of course if he is dead. Sorry if you’re fit and healthy Mr Day, I hope things are going well back in the UK. As a friend put it only yesterday, to change it would rob it of its Timness and I need all the Timness I can get, I think.

 

So I have decided to leave it as it is and move on to my next project relaxed in the knowledge that I did my best and that’s all I can ever do.

 

‘Don’t Ask Stupid Questions – There Are No Stupid Questions’ will be available Fall 2007.

 
 

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