When All Else Fails ….RUN When you dedicate your life to a cause. When one day you have no choice at all but to stop everything you are doing. When all that you aimed for dreamt about and focused on has in one moment ceased to matter and no value or use to you. This happened to me for the first time in the summer of 2001. I was the MD of a very successful business employing hundreds of people, everything going well I had spent 15 years working my way to the top and in an instant I knew it was over for me. Without any notice my only thought was to go, quit, forget, move on. I gave up a six-figure salary and went home. This action stunned everybody I knew, nobody could accept I had so quickly given up all I had ever dreamed of. I wondered myself for a while if I was indeed in the middle of a breakdown. I spent the next few years working as a motivational speaker and writing poems. I was lost. By 2004 I was back in business running a company and chasing that same old dream. For the next five years or so I was blissfully happy and passionate about what I was doing, until one day early in 2010 that feeling returned. Only this time I was able to look deep, deep down into myself and understand for the first time what I was put on this planet to do. That moment of discovery was as if all my life I had been trying to peep through I tiny hole at another world and then suddenly the door flies open and there it is your new life and this beautiful world mapped out before you. In that moment you look back at your former self, lost and confused, never really knowing where they were going or what their life was about. But as the weeks pass you get to see all the dots joining up and all the lessons of life begin to make sense. I am a runner. I was diagnosed as emotionally disturbed as a little boy who would run away when he got sad about the loss of his Dad. I would run and run and run never looking back, never worrying about where I was going, If tired I would rest but as soon as I was able I would start running again. I hope that anybody reading this gets that feeling I got and sets off on a world of discovery as I have. Do what you love, Love why you do it. Get up from your desk and run x. At the Pride of Britain Awards I met 16 others just like me, bursting with passion and somewhat emotionally disturbed, all doing something that that means the world to them. It was like being with family. The honour I feel to be considered as one of them is enormous. It was never about awards for any of us. It was about recognizing why we were put on this planet. About paying tribute to those people we love or have lost. It’s about getting up off our backsides and taking on our demons. It’s about looking deep deep down and accepting what you stand for. It’s about never giving in no matter what x By the way I am still emotionally disturbed and very unreasonable at times…Thank god for that x. When all else fails RUN x Please share and RT Thank you x
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 08:54:58 +0000
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