I just went to do payroll for this month.
It turns out the revenue that comes in on the third working day of the month hasn’t cleared yet.
But I did notice something that surprised me.
The account was overdrawn.
With the majority of our revenue coming in at the start of the month and operating a lean budget (not having extra members who don’t come who can provide extra revenue), then the account normally does get pretty low towards the end of the month.
But I was expecting there to be some still left there, so I was a little surprised.
Turns out a payment had gone through that I’d forgotten about.
It’s the six monthly rental on our defibrillator.
Since we first got the defib, those payments have added up.
We’ve never had to use the defib once.
So you could argue all that money has been wasted.
I’ve just worked out how much we’ve spent on it and it’s tempting to think I could have saved that money and been able to spend it on something else.
But, ultimately what’s happened is the best scenario.
To have used it would have meant some one having a heart attack in the club.
Despite defibs massively increasing the chance of survival when someone enters ventricular fibrillation………..
There’s a pretty good chance that if the defib was needed, the end result would have been someone dying on the club floor.
Not having use the defib at all and having essentially wasted that money is by far the preferable option.
Even worse would be if I had saved the money and someone had had a heart attack and they died because we didn’t have the defib.
Sometimes, something not happening is, by far, the preferable outcome.
In many areas of life actually.
It’s easy to get frustrated with our progress in getting slimmer stronger, fitter or healthier when we’re not achieving the results we might ideally like.
Forgetting, perhaps, the massive value we’ve gained by not going backwards.
Or the value in some damage limitation.
The vast majority of the population are gaining weight, losing energy levels, experiencing worsening mood and mental health, getting more aches and pains and just generally feeling worse year on year.
If we manage to stand still in any or all of those areas then that’s amazing.
If we gain a pound or two when on holiday when we previously gained five or seven then that’s a three to six pound improvement.
And ultimately, if we’re standing still, then we’re increasing the chance of going forward at some point in the future.
And we’re making what needs to be done to get where we want to get to less than it would be if we’d gone backwards.
Like us not getting anything for our money from our defib, it’s always worth remembering that not getting anything can be a good thing.
Much love ,
Jon ‘Did actually once save someone’s life by defibbing them at a Fitness First in Sheffield in 2007’ Hall
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