Your ‘Mallard’ Waits in the Yard:

A Rally Cry for Career Coasters & Dormant Dreamers

(Or, in other words: You’re Not Lazy — You’re a Locomotive Awaiting Fire)

“This isn’t laziness. This is lostness. And it’s costing you the one thing you can never buy back: your directed energy.”

Mallard Laying Dormant, Neglected Versus Mallard the World-Beater!

There’s a quiet kind of tragedy playing out across all of humanity's living generations that would make our forebears shudder with shock if they knew what we're enduring in our oftentimes, seemingly, fracturing world.

– the waste of human potential on a massive scale.

But how does this squandering of positive energy distract us from the potential we have hidden in our hypothetical garage, train-yard or shed of potential, concealed at the bottom of our metaphorical garden? Our concealed greatness, just sitting there, idling in the not knowing of its never neverland.

It doesn’t scream. It doesn’t burn. It just sits. Concealed under layers of dust built-up through decades of dormancy and neglect. Yet, gleaming, gifted, emotive, and motionless beneath. Like a dormant 'Mallard' - Britain’s fastest-ever locomotive - resting in its rail-yard, its firebox cold, its pistons still, its story unrealised, forgotten, or perhaps, as yet, unwritten.

That’s you, isn’t it?

Not broken.

Not incapable.

Just... idling.

Gathering dust.

Yet, we know, you were not built for a life of inertia. You were born for movement. For momentum. For amassing progress. For dignity. For mastery. But the fire was never lit. No one ever showed you how to ignite purpose, or what a life driven by vision, intentionality and authentic vocation actually feels like.

So you cope. You drift. You make do. You coast along, unseen. Trying to attract as little attention to your inertia as possible. You “function” - but only ever at around 10% of your capacity. Your steam gauge barely indicating any fire in your boiler at all.

But This isn’t laziness, is it? This is lostness.

And it’s costing you the one thing you can never buy back: your wasted energy.

Now picture this: A world-record-setting marvel of engineering—the legendary Mallard, the A4 Pacific-class steam locomotive—built in 1938 by Sir Nigel Gresley. Sculpted for speed, she broke through every barrier of her time, reaching 126 mph. Her lines were poetry. Her motion, purpose manifest. She was a machine not just of movement, but of meaning.

And yet... she rests now in a museum. Brilliant, yes—but still. Beautiful, yes—but done.

That contrast—the Mallard as a well-curated legacy versus you as latent energy—is not just poetic. It’s urgent.

Because your personal Mallard—the potential within you—isn’t dead.

It’s just dormant.

So let me ask you:

What does your locomotive of possibility look like?

Is it buried in the yard of your own mind, sleek and elegant beneath the rust of self-doubt, suffocated by weeds of indecision, its paint dulled by the long shadow of conformity?

Perhaps there are still glimmers on the chrome. Perhaps the whistle still echoes faintly in your dreams.

But to shine with its true brilliance, it needs you—not someone else—to pick up the cloth and polish. To reawaken the gleam. To stand as both caretaker and conductor of your purpose.

Yes, others may help you strike the match…

Offer sparks of insight, encouragement, or accountability. A mentor, a coach, a guide—a Life Engineer, if you will.

But it is you who must open the firebox. You who must breathe life into the boiler.

Purpose is a furnace. And it doesn’t light itself.

Too many are stuck in the sidings of life, paralysed by the comfort of low ambition, coasting through roles they never chose, silently suffering in the echo chamber of underused potential.

Don’t let that be your story.

This isn’t about hustle. It isn’t about pressure. It’s about presence.

It’s about waking up to the fact that the Mallard of your life still has track ahead of it. And that you were never meant for storage.

You were meant to move.

You were meant to stir dust into steam, to feel velocity in your veins, and to carry others in the slipstream of your example.

But the first act of power is simple: recognise that you are idle. Not broken. Not failing. Just unignited.

🛠 So here’s the invocation:

Step into the yard. Touch the cold steel of your unlived potential. Smell the oil, the rust, the long silence. Know that the gleam still lives beneath the grime.

Then roll up your sleeves. Stoke the fire. Wipe the chrome. Let the whistle blow.

Because when your Mallard roars back to life, the world will know it.

And more importantly — so will you.

Mallard at Full Tilt!

🔎So - on reflection - Where in your life are you idling — and what fire have you forgotten to light?

🧩 The Dot-Connecting & Momentum-Building:

And if you’re still unsure where to begin...That’s okay. Every locomotive begins from stillness.

But stillness is not your destiny, is it? You were built to burn clean, to move with meaning, to find rhythm and resonance in work that reflects who you really are.

This is the essence of Good Being — the art of living in alignment with our unique design, our inner engine firing in full flow.

So, if the metaphor of the 'Your Mallard in The Yard' stirs something in you — if some part of you is whispering “yes... that’s me” — then don’t let the moment pass.

Because your life doesn’t change by accident. It changes by ignition.

The Good Being platform exists to help you light that first spark, to decode the blueprint of your potential, and to put purpose, power, and peace back in the driving seat of your working life.

🔥 The Flamekeeper’s Note:

I believe every person carries within them a masterpiece of purpose — an engine of meaning built not merely to function, but to flourish.

My work exists to help you remember what you were made for — to decode the pattern of your potential, and to set your life back in motion with intention, contribution, and joy.

If something stirred in you while reading, don’t leave it in the sidings. Don’t let the embers extinguish. Feed them oxygen. Burnish your purpose. Fan the flames of your intentionality.

Your life-force and fullest vitality exist for a purpose. Follow that spark. Ignite that inferno.

Go!

Now!

Hear that? That’s the sound of your soul preparing for progress.

📌 Next Week: "The Good Being Dashboard: Engineering Purpose Into Daily Life"

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