Oh what a feeling….

No not Toyota. Meeting someone who makes things happen. Someone who is on the same wavelength — totally. I graciously volunteered to put together a brochure (read: got sucked into putting together a brochure) for one of my nonprofits. Honestly, I agreed because after hearing the other inputs, I feared that we’d have a black and white tri-fold printed on Staples paper with 12 typefaces. My vision for the brochure was clean and modern. Fresh and exciting. Compelling and bold. Not something that I could imagine on prefolded paper. But I digress.

So I’m not a designer. But I’m really good at getting other people to do things. I think it’s what I do best. (Except this morning when I wanted to get Max to pull himself together, eat breakfast and put on his shoes for school.) So there was a young woman who came to an event last spring. I heard she was a designer. So I emailed her. Note that I didn’t call her. I emailed. That might seem improper, but I thought it was lower pressure. It’s much easier to say no to being roped into a new organziation via email, don’t you think?

She said yes. And rather quickly, I might add. So either, she sucked and was dying to have something for her book or she was someone who gets in and does something. I met with her today. And it’s the latter. For sure. She’s amazing. She understood everything I wanted — even before I got into details. We think alike. We talk alike. (Oh no, not the Patty Duke song again.) But I am thrilled to be working with her on this.

Nothing like meeting someone with tremendous energy and talent to make a project exciting! One more thing. I told her we didn’t have the budget for printing, so we’d have to make it work on a laser printer. Instead, she sent me a note 1/2 hour later telling me she got the printing donated.

Now that’s getting it done.