If You Had Only One More Year To Live…

Anthony Burgess was just 40 when his doctor told him that he only had less than a year to live because of a brain tumor. It was 1960, and he was broke and worried because he had nothing to leave his wife, Lynne.

But for as long as he could remember, a nagging little voice in his head said he could be a great writer.

Unfortunately, Anthony had never listened to that voice before. But now that he was dying, he hoped to write a book to create royalties for his wife.

So for the next nine months, Anthony wrote day and night, finishing five and a half novels. That’s more than many professional writers create in 10 years or for some in a lifetime. And that isn’t even the exciting part.

While he was busy doing what he had known he was meant to do for his whole life – while he was busy being creative and productive, his cancer quietly disappeared.

In his long and prolific life as a novelist, Anthony Burgess wrote more than 70 books, including the famous “A Clockwork Orange.”

But without his death sentence, he may never have written at all.

Just imagine that you have less than a year to live. What will you do with it? Whether it’s one year or a lot more, if you are not doing what you were born to do, isn’t it time for a shift in that direction?