Woo-hoo!
Here’s a funny story.
This week I signed a contract with a major wellness company (hereafter referred to as The Company, or Company). This was not an accident. But it was utterly unexpected. Here’s the story:
Two years ago I decided I should work with this particular Company. I put out some feelers among friends and colleagues and quickly procured a lead. A name and number of a key person at the company I so coveted. When I finally sat down with my prepared pitch and summoned the nerve to call my contact, the number didn’t work. I hung up utterly disheartened. I did make a few attempts at finding a working number but after each one failed, I simply gave up. Not sure about next course of action, I relegated the number and the project to my To Do list.
A word about my To Do list.
I am a list girl. I have made lists since I was a small child. Lists are comforting to me. They assure me that all is right with the world and that I am, on a day to day basis, accomplishing something. When technology became an inextricable part of my day, I established a new To Do list. Or rather, a To Do email. Every day I delete completed items from my To Do email and add new ones. And then I email it to myself. I do this every day so that the list appears at the top of my Inbox every day. Type A, you ask? In fact, I am. But I digress. Back to the story.
The project, The Company, the name and number of the contact sat on my To Do email for almost two years. To be fair, it was pretty far down the list so I didn’t really see it every day. But it was there. A simple scroll function was all I needed to remind myself of the goal. At least once a week I was reminded. But nothing came of it.
Fast forward: Last month I got a call from The Company. It was random and out of the blue. We starting discussing project ideas and several phone calls later it became clear that we both wanted to move forward with a collaboration. The next step was to have “their people talk to my people” – so the appropriate paperwork could be drawn up.
Emails were exchanged. Introductions were made.
And who do you think called my agent to initialize a formal contract?
One guess? Yeah, it was him. The “lead” that had been sitting on my To Do email for 2 years.
Fate? Karma? Law of Attraction?
All of the above maybe. But it was worth jotting down how it all came to pass and if I can make just one tiny reccomendation - if you really want something – keep it on your To Do list!