By Greg O'Quin
What are you waiting for?
This simple question has the power to change everything. Yet most of us spend our lives postponing the very dreams that could define us. We collect regrets like souvenirs— not from bold actions we took, but from the chances we never seized.
I know this intimately. At various crossroads in my life, fear and hesitation won out over possibility. I quit Boy Scouts just short of earning my Eagle Scout badge. I walked away from baseball in tenth grade. I never ran track in college, despite the pull I felt toward the sport.
Each abandoned pursuit became a small weight I carried, a reminder of what might have been.
For years, I told my wife Hope that I wanted to run a marathon. She had already conquered two. The dream lived safely in the realm of “someday”—that comfortable place wher ambitions go to hibernate. Then, in early 2005, Hope took action where I had only oƯered words. She registered me for the New York Marathon. When my name was selected, she presented me with a choice disguised as a challenge: “What are you going to do? What are you waiting for?”
That spring and summer, I trained. In November, I ran 26.2 miles through the streets of New York City. It was my first marathon, but not my last—I’ve completed twelve since then.
More importantly, that moment became a turning point. “What are you waiting for?” transformed from Hope’s challenge into my personal manifesto. I wear a rubber bracelet bearing these words as a daily reminder. I pose this question to friends and clients, watching as it works its quiet magic in their lives too.
After years of talking about writing a novel—another dream relegated to “someday”—I finally asked myself the question that had become my North Star. The result lies in your hands: Killing Ants. Visit my website: killingantsbook.com/
Fans of smart, high-stakes thrillers like The Firm and The Lincoln Lawyer will devour this razor-sharp financial suspense novel where one man’s fall from grace becomes the spark for the perfect revenge.
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