Do not Waste It!

My wife and I recently visited my hometown on the occasion of my Mother’s 60th birthday. After the meal we went to my cousin’s house and sat talking with my uncle, a man who missed our wedding because he was fishing.

He sat and talked about his engineering business, how he built it up with his own sweat, employed 20 people, worked many long hours, made sacrifices. Then, without any drama, he told us all ‘I hated it. I hated engineering, I hated all of it’.

Outside of the Army (he was a tank driver for National Service) he had spent most of his life working a job he loathed, running a company he hated, to provide for his wife and daughter.

Now I understand why fishing is still so important to my uncle. It had clearly been a passionate vocation for him and has been his respite from a job that he loathed.

This is what I want to say to you. Do not spend your life like my uncle doing something you hate. Don’t waste any time doing something you hate.

Make the change today. Do what you love, be what you want to be. Do it today.