Are we ever really ready?

Are we ever really ready?

And here I start writing with a completely blank brain, as usual. I have no idea what I am to say, all I have is a subject like an item on my ‘to do’ list. This time the theme is a blogpost for our book. The only thought and sound of “our” book is already surreal to me. I (co) wrote a book, for real? I have been part of the process since the very beginning and now the book does exist and I still can’t wrap my head around it until I will have the actual paper version in my hand. Kind’ a like Thomas, you know, the unbeliever from the Bible. I do have to see it to believe it. I didn’t really want to write this book when the project was first catapulted out there. I mean…it started something like this. Dawn, our fabulous woman of success, created this women’s group. I joined, you know, like all women who do need girlfriends and other women in their lives, for whatever reason, because that is how we, the women are made. She brought a book and I asked to borrow it and she just gave it to me. And then an idea popped out: what if we wrote a book like that? Well great, I was the first one to say yes! And all of a sudden, out of Dawn, this avalanche started: we are doing it, now! And that’s where I freaked out, of course. I cannot do it, now. I am so not ready. I want to be proud of myself to have accomplished something,...