Last week I dusted off my road bike and got back on the road after many months of not riding or exercising for a number of reasons, some of them being excuses.
As I started my ride, I quickly realized that this was not going to be an easy ride! Twenty minutes into my ride, I reached the hill I was regretting. Halfway up the mountain, yes, the hill turned into a mountain at this point, I was ready to just give up and walk the rest of the way. Then I remembered a saying I had heard many years ago about failure, ‘you don’t fail when you fall off your bike, you only fail if you don’t get up and ride again’, … so I kept going.
I have reached this point many times in my life, sometimes I kept going and plenty of times I did end up falling off my bike. The times when I did fall, I got back on the bike and never looked at my falling as a failure. Instead, it was just part of the journey. It was part of what was needed, in order to achieve a goal, and I have been fortunate enough to have had many people to help me during these times.
Keep riding!!
thought for the week 