“The schedule you juggle at work is unbelievable. You’re brilliant. You can project manage a $10 million dollar software rollout across 4 departments and 7 continents with a Microsoft Project Planner printout that is bigger than a Blue Whale. But when you sit down to think about scheduling a training plan for a marathon this year, you don’t know where to begin.
It’s easy though.
Start where you’re already great! Play to your strengths. Be a student of you.” – Jon Acuff
I’m starting to write my first book (well, really a collection of essays around one main theme, but more on that later) and found myself in this space. I start at the computer screen and wonder how to make sense out of all of this. Fight the an avalanche of support emails when an app goes down? I can do that no problem. Plan out an entirely new creative community? Check. Start writing for this new idea? I’m stuck on where to start.
And then I read that article from Jon and everything clicked. I already know how to do this. It’s just a matter of being my own source – of taking those skills in one part of my life and using them in a new way in a different area. I mean, planning is planning, right?
