Rob's Story Meet Rob. Rob works for an electronics company, in customer support. Previously a computer programmer, and a happy man. Since being made redundant, however, Rob has been working in a badly paid and thoroughly boring job that his girlfriend helped him get. His skills are going to waste, he’s struggling to pay his mortgage and he’s deeply miserable. So why, you ask, doesn’t he do something about it? Why doesn’t he look for a better job, one that he would enjoy more, and would earn him more money? Why doesn’t he save up some cash, and go on a programming course to update his knowledge and almost guarantee him a job paying twice his current rate? Why does he go into work every day when he can see himself that it’s making him miserable? There are many possible answers. Firstly, he has that stable feeling. He’s in a steady job. It’s secure, he knows the people there, he knows what he can get away with and what he can’t, his transport is sorted, and he finds the job easy. Why go through all the hassle of looking for a new job, sending out applications, going to interviews, meeting new people, learning a new job, and sorting out transport just for the sake of a few extra grand a year? He can afford his mortgage (just about), he can go out on the beer once or twice a week and he’s got a DVD player and Wide-screen TV on credit. What more does he need? He may as well stay where he is. Only when faced with the prospect of losing his job will he be “scared” into looking for a new one. After all, change can be daunting. Maybe he just can’t be bothered to invest in his future. $1000 is a lot of money! He can’t afford to fork out that much on a course! Not after shelling out $2000 on that new stereo, and besides, he’s saving up for the latest Volvo estate. It’s got a digital radio, don’t you know. And it’s not just the money. He doesn’t have the time to spend researching, studying, and going to lectures. He does, however, have time to spend watching endless soap operas and chat shows. Maybe he’s waiting for some imaginary milestone date. New year! That’s a good time to make a fresh start. His next birthday, maybe, or his 35th – that’s a nice round number. Maybe he’s waiting to be shocked into doing something – he could be made redundant, or become ill. Then he would make that radical change to his life. Thinking about it, is computer programming really what he wants to do? He enjoyed it, and he was good at it! But he’d done it for a few years now. Maybe it’s time for a change. Maybe he could be good at something else. But what? He would have to spend a few weeks thinking about what he wanted to do. He hasn’t got the time for that. May as well stay where he is for the time being. And so Rob stays with his electronics company for another 5 years. Not really doing what he enjoys, he gets more and more miserable as the years go on. But he won’t admit it, not even to himself. As he sees it, his life is fine. It’s average, what most people’s lives should be. He comes home every night, eats his dinner and then settles down in front of the TV. He watches a lot of good films. He learns a lot from them about life, love, comedy and politics, but never puts that knowledge to any use. He watches them and wishes he could be a secret agent, or a fireman, or an astronaut, but never does anything about it. He also watches a lot of “fly on the wall” documentaries, dramas, soaps, and award shows. He learns a lot about celebrities and their private lives, and dreams of being one. Every Friday and Saturday night he goes down the pub and gets relatively drunk, sometimes having a good laugh, the alcohol taking the edge off any boredom. He can’t be bothered to exercise, he can’t be bothered to eat properly, and he smokes like a chimney. He can’t even be bothered to have sex more than once a week. His girlfriend consequently leaves him but he thinks this is brilliant – the single life! He can bring women home whenever he likes. A few months later this backfires, one such woman, who was only intended to be a one-night stand, takes things too seriously and moves in with him. Now he’s trapped by her, no longer able to “go out on the pull”, stuck at home with a kid on the way, bailiffs at the door and nothing in the fridge. But he plods on, believing that this is “a normal life”. Then it happens. Rob is diagnosed with bone cancer. He is given a maximum of two years to live. So, he’ll probably not see his 40th birthday. It hits him hard. Many nights are spent crying, he’s too young – the injustice of it all! There’s so much he wanted to do with his life, so much time wasted. Looking back on his life, he thought: What had he achieved? When he died, what would be left? Nothing. All the knowledge in his head gained over the years would be gone, it would have all been for nothing. After a few days of drowning his sorrows, Rob finally realises that its time to do something. The urgency of imminent death forces him to think quicker. Making priorities is so much easier, in fact, it’s natural. Within a few days of hard thinking, he has decided what he wants to do, and sets about it immediately. All he wants to do is leave his mark on the world. He doesn’t want to be famous for it, or earn lots of money for his kids, he just wants his time on Earth to have meant something. He wants to make sure that his life hasn’t been completely wasted. With impending death, things seemed so much clearer. Rob wishes he could have been this focused before. Imagine what he might have achieved! Just before he dying, Rob put the finishing touches to his novel. The book, describing his growing intensity for life born from his impending death, went on to be a best seller. All over the world people’s lives were improved after reading Rob’s book, as people realised that death could come at any time, and that every moment was precious. The preciousness brought to people’s lives by Rob’s book turned hundreds of thousands of people into DOERS. People learnt that thinking about things was pointless, and that creating values for others was the most rewarding and long lasting past time. He loved writing it. He had discovered that writing was what he wanted to do all this time. Although he spent most of his time watching TV, he realised that all he was really interested in was stories. He loved adventure, the unfolding of a storyline, and the development of strong characters. So creating this story was everything he wanted to do, rolled into one, whilst at the same time it was a creation that he could share with the world and make money from. He had found his passion, and by making it into a product that people would want to buy, he had turned it into a commercial reality. This provided him with an income – whilst bringing benefits to the world and society. Find your passion – and riches will find you. "Don't worry about what the world needs.
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