Being the biker aficionado that I am, a few months ago I went on a long ride. I was having a harder time than usual. It felt that, although I was trying harder I wasn’t moving any faster. Nevertheless, I plowed on, and after I had finished the ride, I was not very happy with my performance. I proceeded to load my bike on the car to go home. Then I realized what had happened; I had been riding my bike with my brakes on, literally. The back brake had been rubbing on the wheel all along, unknown to me; I was “riding with the brakes on”. That explained the slow and tiring ride I had and the frustration of not being able to make progress.   I am sure my biking friends will understand what I am talking about.

If you are not a biking fan, when was the last you were driving and suddenly realized you had left the emergency brake on? What did you do? You didn’t step on the accelerator to go faster; you simply release the brake, right?

While riding, I hadn’t realized that I was riding with the brakes on, so I tried harder, I got tired, frustrated, and upset that I wasn’t going as fast and smooth as I wanted. When I realized what had happened, I thought how stupid of me, I should have checked the alignment of the brakes of my bike before I started riding. Had I not noticed that my brakes were on, I simply would propecia online order have taken this day as a day where I wasn’t feeling all that well, and simply would have believed that on this day, I sucked.

I thought about this, this morning after I talked to a friend of mine who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. I didn’t realize she was going thru this until she told me that she would have surgery the next week to undergo a mastectomy. In our interactions, not once did I see her slow down in her business or career. She didn’t let the brakes rub and slow her down. I start thinking about many of my friends that have been going thru similar experiences; some have taken their diagnosis as a way to reinvigorate their lives and to make sure they aren’t slowing down.

Most people ride thru life with their psychological brbrakes on without realizing it. They hold on to negative images of themselves, and either suffer in silence with unresolved emotional issues or look for ways to feel sorry for themselves. They stay in a comfort zone of their own making, and when they try harder, their brakes slow them down, no matter how hard they try.
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Think of your comfort zone as a bike ride - when you grind the pedals, and you try harder every inch of the ride feels like you are climbing a steep hill; a largely self-made hill. This hill consists of a collection of “cant’s”, “must not’s”, and other negative beliefs you have accumulated during your life. Perhaps you have been riding to limit yourself

What can you do about something you don’t know you are dealing with? Inspect your brakes. I should have done that the just before I mounted my bike. But in real life, I know what I have gone thru and I what I am going thru today. That reality check allows me “to release the brakes” by letting go of the feelings of self-pity I am prone to have, and replacing those limiting beliefs, with beliefs of power and success.

Breaking through self-imposed limits begins with defining what those brakes are, and deliberately choosing for them not to hold you back. Remember, there is no one and nothing holding you back but yourself!

Have you checked your brakes lately?

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