One of my favorite clients told me a rather brilliant story yesterday that is impacting me greatly this morning as I reorganize my thoughts to prepare for a company vision call. Last weekend, she was at Michael Gerber’s “In The Dreaming Room” event in San Diego, a place where she and I met in June of last year. This time she brought her son, an amazing gift unto itself. When they were at dinner one night with another participant in the group, this participant challenged my client to stop making excuses and start living her dream. Her son’s comment was that she had yet to “put the baby down”. The next morning she had an epiphany as to what that meant. As a mother, you hold that baby tight to protect it, but eventually you are forced to put it down, and when you do, only then can it learn to crawl, soon after stand, begin to walk and eventually run on its own. NONE of that can happen until you put the baby down.

What a brilliant analogy for business. Any business. I, of course, think of it in terms of my business. Writers of the Round Table is almost three years old and I am still, in many respects, holding the baby. Waking up to that realization feels immense to me. We have five dedicated employees and more than half a dozen freelancers working together every day with brilliant synergy and creativity exploding left and right. We have built a solid foundation; and yet, I’m still holding the baby. Amazing. It’s time for me to let go. Today, at noon, on our company vision call, I will be putting the baby down. Annette, my client, my visionary, my friend, I’ll let you know how it goes.

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