Dance Until It Rains

Dance Until It Rains

It's that time of year again when the long hard slog of the working year comes to an end and celebrations for the New Year commence. Not only is it the season of parties, great food, warm steamy nights and a long summer holiday full of beach, end of year sales shopping and trying to avoid non-air conditioned buildings, but it is also the time of "Re". A New Year means it is the perfect time to set resolutions to renew, reassess and rejuvenate ourselves (not forgetting to rewind and relax) in order to emerge as better individuals.

To set you on your "Re" quest, what better than a book full of inspirational life lessons to guide you? "You are what you are meant to be", "Use words to help yourself and others", "Never assume", "Love yourself first and foremost", "Prioritise the important over the urgent", "Follow your own instincts and intuition". We all need a little guidance so if you're looking to reinvent yourself this year you should seek Dance Until It Rains.

"Each and every day in the life of every single person provides opportunities to learn, particularly for those who are open to the lessons and who would like to improve their lives. For the great majority of my life I have let so many of these incredible people and lessons pass me by as I wandered through life with a 'she'll be right' attitude, just expecting things would turn out the way I wanted.

It often takes a major event to shake us to the core, to slap us and say 'wake up and learn the lessons or beware the consequences'. For me, surprisingly enough, the wake-up call didn't come when my mum was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1988, nor did it come when she was diagnosed with secondary cancer in her liver in 1991. Astonishingly, it didn't even come as I witnessed her face the challenges of the disease for fifteen years.

I never really understood (or even wanted to) what she went through. I had my head firmly buried in the sand, wishing it would all just go away. That was until September 2004 - just two months before she died. We were spending some time together in Queensland and found ourselves talking about her life and her journey. For days we talked, we laughed, we cried, we loved, and then an amazing thing happened: I saw my mum in a completely different light.

She was no longer my mum - the giver, the carer and the protector. Instead, I came to know her as a vulnerable child, an uncertain adolescent, a searching adult, a creative being and someone, like all of us, wanting to feel important, to love and be loved and just be happy.

Since that time I have become a different person with a renewed perspective on life. Every day is a lesson and every day offers a precious gift that is mine to take if I choose.

My goal in this book is to share with you the life of a remarkable lady, and in so doing, highlight the amazing lessons that each of us can learn not just from her life but also from our own. I would like to offer you the gift that my mother, Sue Jobling, gave to me and I hope that it impacts your life as profoundly as it has mine."
- Andrew Jobling

Andrew Jobling is an in-demand speaker and mentor for individuals, teams and companies wanting to create positive long-term change. He is also the best-selling author of Eat Chocolate, Drink Alcohol and be Lean and Healthy and Simply Strength. Andrew lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Dance Until It Rains
Exisle Publishing
Author: Andrew Jobling