a time to risk or sit
TRANSCRIPT
An excerpt from the bestseller
“ How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds ”
By Robert C. Worstell - edited from the talks of
Earl Nightingale
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In 1965, Robert M. Manry, a copy editor for the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, sailed from the United States to England in a
13-foot sailboat - 3,200 miles across the North Atlantic in a
boat so small you'd hesitate to take it out on Lake Michigan
or Long Island Sound as small-craft warnings were flying.
For 78 days Manry and his tiny 36-year-old sailboat battled
one of the toughest stretches of saltwater on earth. Gales
blew the boat on its side. Manry tried to nap during the day
and sailed at night so that he could try to avoid being run
down and chopped into kindling and hamburger by great
ocean-going steamers. On several occasions, he was washed
over the side in heavy seas. Each time he would haul himself
back aboard by a lifeline he kept tied to himself in the boat.
He suffered terrible hallucinations, the result of having to
take so many pep pills to stay awake during the long nights.
Why? What made him do it? It wasn't publicity; he went
about the whole thing so quietly - practically no one knew
what he was up to. He thought no one would pay attention
to him, and that was fine with him.
The reason was that he had dreamed of sailing the Atlantic
ever since he had been a small boy. He bought the dinky old
boat for $250. He completely rebuilt her, taught himself
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navigation, and practiced long-distance sailing on Lake
Erie.
He told his wife the real reason for his embarking on so
incredible a journey in so vulnerable a craft. He said to her,
“There is a time when one must decide either to risk
everything to fulfill one's dreams or sit for the rest of one's
life in the backyard.” Now this is why Mr. Manry went
sailing over the mountains of deep water in a boat only
about twice the size of your bathtub. This is why he sat in
his tiny open cockpit and weathered storms that caused the
passengers to clear the weather decks of giant ocean liners.
He was fulfilling a dream he'd carried in his heart since he'd
been a small boy.
As a result, offers for books and magazine articles poured in
to him. Cleveland gave him a hero's welcome, as did the
20,000 people who wildly cheered the successful end of his
voyage when he arrived in Falmouth, England. It's been
proposed to Congress that Manry's boat, Tinkerbelle, be
placed in the Smithsonian Institution alongside Charles
Lindbergh's plane, Spirit of St. Louis.
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A Time to Risk or Sit - 3
But all this fame and sudden stature in the eyes of the world
- this was not why he made the trip. It was because he
believes that there is a time when one must decide either to
risk everything to fulfill one's dreams or sit for the rest of
one's life in the backyard.
Courage, the courage to finally take one's life in one's own
hands and go after the big dream, has a way of making
that dream come true. It seems to open hidden doorways
from which good things begin to pour into one's life. But
only after we've made the journey in our own way. For
Manry, at 47 years of age, it was sailing 3,200 miles of the
North Atlantic. Each of us must make his own voyage
through darkness and danger to the light that beacons in
the distance. A journey to fulfillment ... or sit in the
backyard.
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