You may not realise it yet, but the weeks, months and years will very soon start whizzing by at a rate you find hard to comprehend. If you’ve got things you want to do (and who of us hasn’t?) it’s never too early to get started.
You may not recognise the name Lenny McLean. In the 1970s and early 1980s he was ‘king’ of the unlicensed boxing ring. When he wasn’t fighting men in the ring he was fighting them outside it as a bare-knuckle fighter, minder, debt collector and doorman – the sort of character for whom the word ‘colourful’ was invented!
In his later years McLean moved into TV and films in small supporting roles, and his last appearance was in the hit film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. I say last appearance, because while making the film he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and died soon after.
Now, up until being issued with a ‘death sentence’, McLean had always relied on his physical attributes and presence to make a living. He realised that this avenue was no longer open to him, and not only that, but decades of hitting and being hit had done little to benefit him financially. In short, he was effectively broke, and he knew that when he died his wife would have nothing.
It dawned on McLean that the value in what he’d been doing for the last 30-odd years was not in the work he’d done, but in the story he could tell. And so he decided to write his autobiography. It was entitled The Guv’nor – McLean’s nickname in the boxing ring. When the book was published, it was an immediate hit and remained firmly placed in the Top Ten Bestsellers list for at least two years.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the autobiography ultimately earned far more than McLean made from his other activities throughout his entire career.
Sadly, he isn’t around to benefit – and that’s the point. This book could have been written at any time and McLean would have been able to enjoy the benefits, but it took something catastrophic to shift him out of his comfort zone and into a new, better and more lucrative course of action. In reality, most of us are like this.
We have ambitions, we think there’s probably a better way, we suspect there’s more out there for us, but our current life isn’t so bad. And so inertia gets in the way and stops us from taking the actions necessary to move on.
Yes, we want more but before we get it we have to do something. We have to take action. And that’s the difficult bit. That’s why we wait – to be made redundant… for an ailing business to finally collapse… for a milestone birthday… for New Year’s Eve… to become ill or disabled… whatever – before finally doing something positive.
If we’re fortunate and it’s not too late, everything works out well, our new path is successful and we go from strength to strength. But why wait to be forced into a corner, or for some false and meaningless future date before doing it? After all, we can never get that wasted time back – the time between being able to do it and actually doing so.
I think, the writer, Mark Twain, summed it up perfectly when he said: “Twenty years from now, you’ll be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover.”
It’s a great quote, and so true. Speak to most people in the later years of their lives and you will rarely hear talk of things that they wish they hadn’t done; but plenty of talk about opportunities which have now passed, and which should have been seized upon at the time.
Three of the saddest words to start any sentence are: “If only I’d… ” How many times have you heard them? You really don’t want to be the one using them in twenty years’ time.
Can you imagine anyone lying on his or her deathbed, with a saddened look in their eyes, and saying: “I wish I’d spent a bit more time in that dead-end job”? Neither can I. But the truth is that millions lie there wishing that they’d chased their dream; that they’d taken that chance…
Don’t be one of them
Kind Regards
John Harrison
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