The Light Bulb

February 22, 2007 by jacquie.

Did you ever have a great idea and wonder what took you so long to have it? That’s what happened to me last week. For months now, I’ve been working on a website concept that is an interactive version of the deliberate attraction process I use with my clients. I kept getting sidetracked and bogged down. I’ve even asked myself and my several coach buddies to help me figure out what’s going on. The conclusion I came to was that I was just too busy, which led me to resign from my time-consuming volunteer position.

So there I was with plenty of time and the skills and desire to make the website happen. Basically, it was moving along, but more slowly than I would like and with less enthusiasm than I expected. Then whammo! Last Friday I was watching Oprah’s second show about The Secret and the light bulb went on. It was a 150 watt spotlight. Why don’t I write a book rather than put this information on a website?

 Why indeed! The excitement of it kept me awake. I kept  thinking about the wave of interest The Secret has generated in the Law of Attraction, and here I am with all the material that anyone needs to incorporate that principle into his or her life. Why not just write it as a book?  

Saturday, I started the book—actually it’s more like a booklet. I finished it on Monday. Then on Tuesday I thought of several things I wanted to add. Who knows where it will be by Thursday when you see this article. What I do know is that I should pay more attention—my flagging interest in the website was saying something. Was it that the time wasn’t right? Was I going the wrong direction? Was I using the wrong medium? What I do know is that I love writing books, especially workbooks, which is what Your Secret of Success is. Isn’t that a cool name. I’ll have to come up with a pithy subtitle. Here’s an amazing fact: www.your-secret-of-success.com was available—most URLs with “success” in them are already taken.

Postscript:  On Tuesday (after this went to my proofreader), I heard a tele-promotion about a seminar in LA for marketing books. This was the exact information my business partner and I need. There I was with the seminar on the phone at one ear and my cell phone at the other as I called Elaine to say, “We’ve gotta go to this!”  Guess what? We are. Talk about the Universe unfolding, this has been a whirlwind. Next week, we’re off to the MegaBookMarketing conference. End.

I don’t know what will come of this. I do know I want to sell a million books—maybe printed books, maybe ebooks, that remains to be seen.  One million is a lot of books—far more than I could imagine selling of my Serenity book or my Transformation book. I guess this means I’m growing, vision-wise.

Well, here I am, the light bulb is on and I am enthusiastically seeing the possibilities it has revealed. What took me so long? Well, it took as long as it took.

©2007, Jacqueline Hale

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