To throw a party and nobody comes. That's a nagging little fear that I'd love to banish from my life forevermore. I haven't found the secret, but I'm working on it!
This particular fear is in my mind this week because after months of planning, organizing, soliciting, and inviting, will be our Partnership for Ontario County's Auction for Kids' Sake. The Partnership's Board has been telling me ever since I started working with them last April that fundraising needs to be my primary focus. So the auction is my responsibility - the party that I'm throwing this coming Thursday.
It's a party that has been thrown before - with at least a reasonable success. It's my job to turn that reasonable success into a BIG success.
From the beginning, it's been clear that we had two tasks - solicit great stuff to auction off and get the right people in the room who want to buy what we've gathered.
I set ambitious goals for both tasks. I wanted to double the value of what we have to sell - and though we haven't yet met the goal, we've been getting closer. And I wanted to double the number of people in the room - which I won't know if we'll achieve until Thursday. Hence the nagging little fear's invitation back into my soul.
As with other things I can't control, I'm trying to not obsess. The Board and I have done what we can to advertise, publicize, and make people aware of what we're doing. And though I'll keep doing that right up to show time, I can't really control how many people will actually show up. I'd love to feel confident and sure - and still there's that nagging fear.
So that's my head-work this week - to put the fear into its place and not let it sabotage my confidence, to fully celebrate the successes that we have and will achieve - even if my own ambitious goals are not fully realized. And to learn and grow from whatever happens - which is ever so much more likely if I can push the fear aside.
Yup, that's the work. Wish me luck!
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