“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,”
Said the Cat.
“I don’t much care where…”
Said Alice
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
-From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
What’s my point? BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND
Lately as I’ve been rolling out my door for the day’s ride I’ve been blessed with a tailwind at my back. No matter how many times it happens, I never get over the magnificence of the feeling of a tailwind. Sometimes it’s as if God is pushing me along, giving me encouragement.
Down deep in every human heart is a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do something fine and enduring.
-Greenville Kleiser
As I move forward, drunken by the feeling of virtually effortless speed I begin to hear sounds over my shoulder. Those sounds are saying, “It’s a pipe dream, He’s going to crash and burn, He’s in over his head, He doesn’t know what he’s doing”. The sounds fuel me to push harder, ride longer, train smarter. It’s at this time that everything is all so clear to me. I ask, if I am to simply aim laterally and not high, than how am I to elevate myself? After all, that is what this is all about, self-actualization and elevation.
BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND. Where am I going, how will I get there?
That which we persist in doing becomes easier—not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
