Learning How To Fall ... You have to learn to fall before you can ride with confidence! Written by Edward B. Toupin
About a month ago, I was hit by a car while riding my motorcycle. The car side-swiped me and took off. My bike bounced off car, shot out from under me, and I rolled under car. Amazingly enough, I stood up, picked up my bike, and got to side of street without any problems. All I had was a small bit of road rash on my elbow. I was lucky!However, I'm not writing this to acquire oohs and ahhs, but to discuss one important lesson I learned from this incident that applies very well to life in general. The basic lesson I learned here was that, now that I am confident in hitting ground and surviving, I have actually become a much better rider. Of course, they do say that there are only two types of motorcycle riders --- those who have gone down, and those who have not. --- Change and Balance --- At beginning of many of my coaching sessions, my clients ask me why things fall apart, out of blue, once they get moving along in their lives. Believe it or not, there is an answer. It has to do with balance, lessons, and traversing new and unknown paths. In all cases, only time we encounter challenges is when we decide to move forward toward a new goal. In our movement, we throw our environment into an imbalance causing a chain reaction of events around us to push balance back into situation. We usually see this surge for balance as a problem, challenge, or issue and then back off to fall back into safety of original situation. But, realize, that such surges are merely in response to your own desire to change. When you initiate change, your environment creates an equal and opposite force against change. It is called "nature". --- Crash and Burn --- Once we are able to overcome initial inertia of change and move forward, we inevitably encounter challenges that will cause us to stumble and fall. Such challenges are not in place to cause us to quit, but are there to wake us up and make us realize that we can endure much more than we thought we could and still continue along our path. Falling enables us to see our own character and abilities to prepare us for future challenges. This is a stair-step approach to bettering ourselves and becoming stronger in our resolve.
| | What Does 2004 Hold For You?Written by Jim Edwards
With 2004 almost upon us, right now makes best time to start setting your goals for coming year. Don't wait until December 31st at 11:00 p.m. to throw together a list of things you might want to accomplish in next 12 months. Decide right now! Make a commitment to improving your life and lives of others and not just to make same old "New Year's resolutions." If simple act of making resolutions were enough, we would all stop smoking, exercise daily, lose weight, own a luxury car, get out of debt, and earn $100,000 per year! Sad fact: most resolutions barely make it past January 1st. But have no fear! If you're serious about setting and keeping your resolutions this year, then Internet can rescue you from backsliding on your goals. Check out these tips for using Web to keep you on target for 2004. ~~ Break Bad Habits ~~ Quit smoking. Lose weight. Make more money. Three of most popular New Year's resolutions that never seem to "stick!" Log on to search engine www.Google.com, put in "break bad habits" and you'll drown under amount of information for quitting just about anything. However, before you throw your hands up in disgust, you need to understand point of exercise. It clearly demonstrates that information you need to stop (or start) doing virtually anything to change your life exists, especially online. No matter what you want, somebody operates a website, wrote a book, produced a video, created some articles, or made a CD that contains answers you need to make changes.
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