Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take a moment, step back from your concerns, and focus on one thing: You have one life to achieve everything you’ve ever wanted. Sounds simple, but when you really focus on it, let it seep into your consciousness, you realize you only have about 100 years to get every single thing you’ve ever wanted to do. No second chances. This is your only shot. Suddenly, this means you should have started yesterday. No more waiting for permission or resources to start. Today is the day you make the rest of your life happen. Write down one thing you’ve always wanted to do and how you will achieve that goal. Don’t be afraid to be very specific in how you’ll achieve it: once you start achieving, your goals will get bigger and your capability to meet them will grow.
--------
The pressure is killing me! Actually, this is easy.
I want to cycle from London to Inverness, Scotland. By myself.
Long story about why, but this has been near the top of my bucket list for awhile. So how? Well, timing is the biggest problem. When? I want to wait until Natalie is bit older. I nee to be gone for about 14 days total and would like to wait until she can help Tom take care of here. So I think I have a few years. But not sure that this is what Mr. Wright wanted me to do on this assignment. So here are the specifics...
1. Get in shape - need to be able to ride 560 miles. 60 a day. 10 days. 6 months of serious training. 6 months to prepare for serious training. So a year.
2. Research the potential bed and breakfasts for sleeping. Lots of options, need to have a rough plan of schedule to do this.
3. Refresh bicycle maintenance techniques. Been a long time since I had to change my own tires!
4. Book travel and bike rental.
5. Kiss the family goodbye and go!
No comments:
Post a Comment