Not a Life Coach : Push Your Boundaries - Unlock Your Potential - Redefine Your Life (9780008404826) by Smith James

Author:Smith, James
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harpercollins Pub Ltd
Published: 2020-10-08T08:34:08+00:00

The best advice I’ve ever had: the silver-lining effect

What happens when things do turn out bad? I’ll never forget the wise words I heard from Scott.

Scott trained at Fitness First George Street in Sydney with one of my best friends, Diren Kartal, as his coach. ‘Hello, James,’ he’d say in his American accent, having heard me from wherever I was on the floor. Scott was blind but still trained four times a week. (Next time you are a little bit sore and considering skipping the gym, just think of Scott, fully blind and still making more trips to the gym than most of us.) I’ll never forget Scott telling Diren and me his story.

Scott sold companies to IBM and made a fortune in his early twenties only to find out at twenty-six that he had a rare eye disease and would very soon be blind and no longer able to drive the fancy Porsche he’d just bought. Scott has forever been in my mind since I met him; if I knew I only had my eyesight for a few more years, I think any financial savings would be shunted down the priorities list and I’d set my sights (pardon the pun) on seeing as much of the world as I could, so that I’d always have the memories when I was older.

The thought of a debilitating condition really prompts us into action to accomplish things we want to do. We shouldn’t need to think like that, but unfortunately, it’s probably our default mindset. If you were going to go blind next year, would you leave tomorrow via a myriad of dodgy cheap flights to go see the sun set over the Rocky Mountains in the USA and Canada?

I bet you’d think that Scott was pissed off. Well, he wasn’t; he was one of the nicest and happiest guys I have ever met. And he gave Diren and me some of the best advice possible which has got us both out of a lot of mental sticky situations. I had in twenty-four hours not only broken up with my girlfriend who I was about to move in with, I’d also lost my visa to Australia where I was living and setting up a life. Diren had decided to exit an eight-year relationship and, well … what Scott said in one sentence changed everything.

‘Guys, no matter what happens, you will be just fine.’

Now, if you’re going to take some advice from someone, I’m not sure anyone is better qualified than a very intelligent, successful man who lost his eyesight through no fault of his own. I have applied his thought process to so much. Whether I tear my anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in my knee rolling in my next jiu jitsu session, whether I get sued for speaking out against charlatans or if no one buys this book. Guess what? I’ll be just fine.

My lawyers need bills to get by, after all; I’m sure they have mouths to feed. And during my

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