Dear Reader,
Randy Rush, today's guest author, has a new memoir 13 Billion to One: Winning the $50 Million Lottery Has Its Price about his experience winning the Canadian lottery. Now he is on a mission to stop white-collar crime and other social injustices by exposing them to the world. He recently founded Rantanna Media, a mission-driven publishing and production company, to give victims a voice and raise widespread awareness about the devastating impact of these crimes. Randy is also committed to transforming the lives of children in Africa, by providing them the education, love, and hope they need to succeed. He divides his time between Canada and Europe.
Please welcome Randy to the book club: http://randall-rush.com/contact-me/
It's About Time
It only takes a quick glance around my log cabin home to know I am obsessed with time. I've got clocks everywhere: on my kitchen wall, in my bedroom, on my desk, in the living room--even in my bathroom.
My fixation started in the fourth grade. My friends and I were a rowdy, out of control bunch, and when a substitute teacher showed up one Friday, we let loose on her. The following Monday my teacher delivered a blow I would never forget. "You have no idea what you've done," she said. "You've lost an entire day that you will never get back."
Those words began to haunt me when I hit my late thirties and found myself stuck in a dead-end press production job that was driven by deadlines and the constant ticking of time. A decade had slipped away from me and I knew that if I didn't switch things up and make every minute count, I would never achieve the financial success I craved. It was that acute awareness of time that drove me to sales and fueled my rise up the ranks.
Now in my early 50s, I'm even more conscious of how fleeting time really is. It's easy to jump back twenty-five years in my mind and think about how fast it flew by. Then I jump forward twenty-five years and realize that my time limit on this Earth is fast approaching. When I won the lottery, people said: "Man, you've got all the time in the world now. You can retire."
But I see it as the opposite. Retiring to me is a complete waste of time and now that I have the resources, I feel the weight of time even more. There is so much I want and need to do--from funding more schools in Africa to igniting a movement that exposes con artists and other social injustices.
When I was in my early twenties, I splurged on a classic Pepsi Rolex watch I discovered at a pawn shop. But when my apartment building burned down ten years later, I found myself in such financial straits, I was forced to sell it to a friend. He was the first person I called when I hit the jackpot.
"Listen," I said. "I'll pay you handsomely, but I need that watch back."
Along with meticulously keeping time, that watch now serves as a continuum between my past and future and is a constant reminder that now is the time to act.
-- Randy Rush
Say "Hello" to Randy and please welcome him to the book club.
http://randall-rush.com/contact-me/
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
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