Getting to the next phase

This is what's happening now. This is very real. This is non-abstract and non-metaphorical. It's difficult and it's happening to me.

The audiobook/bookcast/course thing – Ready for the Quest – is done. (Well, "content complete." There's still mixing and mastering. Oof.) So now what? I have a looooong list of ideas of how to "launch" it. I have fielded suggestions from lots of good friends and advisors. I have neat ideas of what to do with it – which include thoughts on how to go about sharing it, selling it promoting it, building on it, enjoying it. And figuring out what to do with my life now that I've finished this three year phase of making the thing.

I've been putting this off. (I'm putting it off RIGHT NOW.) These are big questions. I don't know where to start. I have an idea that there will be a series of steps. Figuring out what those steps are and putting them in order feels daunting, to say the least.

What am I going to do? I'm going to start small. I'm going to lower the bar. I'm going to recognize that I'm very low on the ladder of self-efficacy when it comes to figuring this out. I've never done this before. It's an FFT! So I have no expectation that I'll come up with a complete plan today – much less one that is really good. Much much much less one that I really like.

Here's exactly what I'm going to do after I finish writing this note to you. I'm going to grab a stack of notecards and write out all the ideas of have of what those steps might be. The writing doesn't have to be neat. I'm not going to worry about putting them in order yet. I'm not even going to worry about whether I've got the exact set of steps that I'll eventually commit to. This is a very rough draft. I'm just spitting it out and separating creating and editing, like Corita told me to. (See Rule #8.)

I believe I can accomplish this right now. It's such a small (t)ask that I'm filled with belief and self-efficacy about it. It even sounds kinda fun. I'm pretty sure that once I've finished this step I'll have the raw material necessary (those notecards) to move forward. I don't know what will happen, but I'm pretty sure that something will. Let's go!