AN "ACCIDENTAL" AUTHOR

When I launched my second coaching book entitled “Dialogue with the Life Coach” at the 6th CCA-MACC Graduation, Awards & Networking Nite on 29 Oct 2011, the feeling was different from the launch of my first book,”Dialogue with the Coach”. This one was so different!  It had all the grandiose ambience unlike the launch of my first book which was a quiet and subdued affair.

First and foremost, it was launched in front of a large crowd; specifically my coaches and their families and friends.  Secondly, my family members were there too.  And thirdly, having Datuk Bridget Menezes, a renowned and highly respected Self Empowerment Guru and a precious friend, to launch it really made the whole thing so complete.

A strange and eerie feeling went through me during this launch.  It said to me, ‘Look here, you are really an author now’!  Indeed, it was a sort of confirmation of this fact.  Why?  Because  the publication of this second book confirmed it! Deep within me I would never saw or call myself  an author until I had met my own benchmark of two books.  Somewhat I needed this assurance as I had never ever dreamt nor planned that I could be one!

That’s the paradox of my life.  The occasion taught me that sometimes we have to leave our fate in God’s hands. We may not need plans to succeed, but we need faith.  Faith gives us positive energy and this attracts good things to happen into our lives.

Becoming an author is a classic example of this. While I never thought I could be one, I had always envied people who are authors. That somehow gave me a dream, but not a plan yet.

With the passage of time, however, things just fell in place one by one. I left my job, got into coaching, took up writing as a way to contribute to society, and also to promote my business.  I was glad I had and still have good friends in the media who supported me. One thing led to another. People like what I wrote. They responded to my writing. They asked for advice. Thus,  I had so many of these cases, and so I compiled them into one book, and then the second book was out, with the third book on the way, latest by next year. I love writing a lot now because it is bearing a lot of fruits.  People not only read my articles, but they actually  kept them.  Cool!

This is only one feather in my cap. The other is my regular blog “Stories That Coach”  when I embarked on being a  blogger for two years now

With all these good things happening, I now have a solid plan and I will continue until I hang up my Blackberry or other writing tools.  Life now has a bigger meaning, and it is not about me; it is also about everyone whom I can touch in their hearts, minds and spirit.

What is it that has positively happened to you, not by design but by God’s hidden hands?