Keep Your Eyes On Where You Want to Go You're riding down a mountain bike trail and up ahead in the middle of the trail is a big rock. What do you do? Your natural tendency is to focus on the rock to make sure you get around it. Don't do it! [...]
When You Reach the Top of a Hill, Don't Coast Hills are my nemesis. When I started getting into cycling more seriously and thought that I was beginning to get good at it, the hills brought me back to reality. I’m not sure what it is about hills that get my goat, [...]
When You Come to a Bridge Get Ready for the Uphill Every mountain bike trail that I have ridden includes at least one bridge to get over. Think about bridges for a second. What are they there for? Bridges are built to help us get over a stream or a gulley. Streams [...]
You Get What You Focus On Part of the problem in learning to ride the trails on a mountain bike is that it is natural for you to want to focus on every tree stump, rock, log, and puddle you come across. Your brain thinks it has to focus on the obstacle [...]
Things Aren't as Big as They First Appear “That’s what she said” - Michael Scott Sorry, couldn’t stop myself. The first time I went mountain biking was epic. I had been road biking for a couple of years when my nephew, Randy, invited me to go on a ride with him and [...]
What Mountain Biking Can Teach You About Business It had started out as a really nice fall day in Sedona. The sun came up over the mesas and lit up the landscape like all of a sudden it had decided to turn the world red. Checking the weather app on my phone, [...]
Change This One Thing to Make Your Relationships Better It doesn't matter whether you're a he/him, she/her, or they/them, relationships can be hard. Why? People are People. They are complex, interesting, frustrating, lovable, prickly, and puzzling. If you want to make your relationship better, there's one thing you might be doing that [...]
Want to Learn Faster? Be a Kid Again At some point in our lives, many of us lose our curiosity. We start accepting most of what we hear and read as fact and then shrug our shoulders and go on our way. Imagine how different our world would be if we went [...]
Make Conversations Fun By Turning Them Into a Game As an introvert, I haven't been very good at conversations. My usual mode of operation is to ask for the facts or to give the facts. When you approach conversations that way they end up being pretty short and to the point which [...]
Ask Yourself These Questions Each Evening We often want to see a massive improvement in our lives which causes us to focus on big moves. A byproduct of this type of thinking is we get disappointed when we don't see big changes. In the book "Atomic Habits", James Clear puts forth the [...]