Hi,

Let me to tell you a story about my dad.

He spent most of his life working for businesses. He had a career with the bank before being made redundant, and then worked for a couple of mid-sized companies as their accountant.

For a boy from a working-class background growing up without a father, he did ok for himself. He was never rich, but he made enough money to pay his way in life.

When I was a child, I didn’t think much about what my dad did for work. What child does? As I became more aware, and understood more about work and careers, I could tell that my father took little joy from his work.

He would never admit that he didn’t enjoy his work, but to him life was all about safety: having a profession (no matter if you enjoyed it), paying off a mortgage, and building savings for retirement.

It sounds so normal and sensible. Even putting these words on paper now, I’m thinking: “what’s wrong with any of that?”

That’s the advice that I was given and followed for the much of my life. That’s the advice that many of us were given.

But here’s the thing: many of us feel “this pain” as we go about what we do every day. That’s the reminder that we’re way off-course from where we’re supposed to be.

And you have a choice. Either continue down the road of safety, driven by fear of survival. Or find out what the reason is you put here:. and live it.

A few years ago, my father was diagnosed with dementia. His decline has been rapid.

I’ll spare you the details, but the situation got so bad that my mother was forced to move him into a care home during the middle of the covid pandemic last summer.

She has barely been allowed to visit him and he can no longer recognise her. She blames herself.

He worked way into his sixties (I don’t remember the exact age he retired). By the time he reached his mid-seventies he had lost most of his cognitive skills.

Today, he needs constant care to be able to function. His life, as we know it, is over.

This is a sad story. I’m not asking for your sympathy, compassion or even your empathy.

I want you to realise that life is precious. I want you to know that you only get to do this once.

Find your purpose. Take steps to do what brings you joy every single day. Don’t push your life down the road: you never know what will be there waiting for you.

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“Your life is your life. Don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.”

Charles Bukowski