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Roy Carter
6 min readJan 19, 2021

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(Time is running out, but you can still change track before it’s too late)!

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I remember when I was flying a desk in those bad old days, how I kept feeling that time was running out for me to make any sort of lifestyle change.

I knew that I longed for a better way to live my life and be happier and I knew as well that I wasn’t getting any younger either.

I knew deep down though that really it wasn’t too late. I mean the evidence is out there for all to see and I knew that really. Look at Colonel Sanders for example. He was 66 before he even started his Kentucky Fried Chicken business.

I didn’t want to hang around until I was 66 though, even though it’s never too late to start being true to yourself. I had a good reason for thinking that now was the time. It was brought home to me in a way that I wish it hadn’t been.

I was chatting to another manager who I worked with one day. He was a good friend and he suddenly broke down in tears. I hurried over and closed the office door and asked him what on earth was the matter.

He told me that he had been told by his doctor that he had cancer and that when he had asked what the treatment was going to be, they told him that the cancer had already spread throughout his body. Basically they told him to go home and get his…

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Roy Carter
Roy Carter

Written by Roy Carter

Founder of www.LettersFromASmallisland.com monthly newsletter sent from my home on Magnetic Island — ‘A Quaint Little Drinking Island With A Fishing Problem! ‘

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