Gestation of a new book
Radcliffe has agreed to publish my new book about ‘Life After Medicine’ so now the work begins! It will be a few more days or weeks until I have the manuscript ready to send to them and the process of publishing can take another few months.
This process has parallels about life after medicine and retirement in general too. You have to have an overall plan in your mind, just like the ‘big picture’ when you start to write a book. However just as you start to write a book chapter by chapter so too in life you have to break down the big goals in smaller manageable chunks. That’s all helped by motivation and determination. Chapter by chapter until the task is finally completed. But that’s not all of it. The chapters have to link together in some way, just as your smaller tasks should be parts going forward to the bigger picture.
Even when finally published (or when you reach your goal) the work isn’t finished. As far as a book is concerned it’s no good stopping when the physical book is published, you have to tell people about it and hope to persuade them to buy it! When you reach your goal you have to keep going and maintain what you’ve achieved.
