Eat well, keep fit......

I have enjoyed a weekend, in Manchester, with my family, celebrating my brothers 40th birthday.

I really let my hair down by having one or two drinks (with alcohol in!) and mostly by eating lots of rubbish food (processed and full of sugar!). As I watched people around me really abuse themselves (in my opinion) with, booze and food, I noticed with ease that there was a lot of fun going on with happy people at the party. I also noticed that I was having a great time even though I felt slightly guilty that I was abusing my body with a couple of drinks and some cakes!

I am just so rock'n'roll!!! Haha

This has reminded me of a saying I once read:-

Eat well, keep fit and die anyway.

From this saying it is easy to think 'yes, why should I be healthy?' , however for me, it is a saying that means what it says ' eat well and keep fit'. Even when I finish racing and my fitness level loses it's importance, I know I will carry on training as I do now because it's just away of life for me.

This is great!

Fun

My training is going great at the moment. I have mentioned, previously, that my training is based around fun.

I understand that the word 'fun' can have different meanings to different people, so, when I go cycling, I love listening to the chain running through the gears (when I have the volume turned low enough, on my mp3 player), I love feeling the cool wind against my cycle jacket and the pressure that goes through my feet in to the peddles, I love checking my current heart rate and to be able to look at the world go by, as I train, is all fun.
When I swim, I love concentrating my technique and thinking about how many breathes I take each length, I love being able to hear my heart beat, lungs fill and expel air, whilst under water and I love to see my hands grab a whole lot of water, making bubbles as I push really hard through the water.
As for motocross, I love seeing things go passed me really fast (and that is, as I go past things!)
I love feeling the throttle on the stop and the brake lever being pulled in as far as possible, I love the smell of 2 stroke engines and the sound of either, 2 or 4 stroke motors.

All these things I have mentioned I regard as fun, however, the one thing I find more fun than anything else, is the effort, I really enjoy giving it my all and getting out of breath.

Keep healthy!!

Never Give Up

Listening to the Bob Procter CDs, he recalls a speech made by Winston Churchill. In a nutshell, he stood up to the podium, waited a few moments and with everyone's full attention on him, he said 'Never give up.........Never Give Up..........NEVER GIVE UP' and then got down from the podium and walked out the room. I think this is a fantastic demonstration of many things, such as, confidence, self belief and courage, among many other character traits you can think of.

As I think of this and other pieces of knowledge I have gained, I realise that, I will achieve my goal and this will only happen when I am ready. When I have become the type of person that is capable of being a champion at the highest level. Currently, I have only been capable of being the winner of the Icelandic motocross championship, this is something that I really enjoyed doing and I am proud of.

I am making space for myself in our universe for this to happen and as the picture becomes more clear, I realise that I have curtain items that I need to fulfill before this space appears for me to become the head of my game.

Unconscious Collective

I want to write about an experience I had a couple of days ago, which relates to an earlier blog regarding MY car park space.

I needed to speak to my insurance broker regarding an item we had discussed for myself, some time ago. When I called, he was unavailable, so, I left a message with the receptionist and asked her to pass it on, telling her, he knew what it was about.

He called me back within fifteen minutes saying 'that was really spooky'. He had been reading my file and was chasing the item up, when the receptionist told him that I had called and that I said he knew what I wanted to talk to him about!

Now, think about it, have you ever had a time when you were thinking of a friend, and they ring you up?

This is what, I think, the unconscious collective is and the more I experience it, the more I believe that it is possible to get what you want, if you are willing to notice your thoughts and listen to your inner self.

Have a listen!!

Unconscious habits

A few different things have been happening recently. Whilst I have had my cast on, I have created some great ideas for the track. Massive ideas that will take, may be, a couple of years to get exactly what I want, and, like my racing, has taken a hold of me. This has meant that I have needed to rethink my training plan and approach to the business. My training is based around having fun.

I love cycling - Monday - Up to 1 hour
I love swimming - Tuesday to Friday - Up to 45 mins
I love motocross - Wednesday & Saturday(or race day) - as long as possible

Kate, the kids and myself, went out for something to eat the other night and whilst we were talking about someone we know, I recalled something I had learned from the book 'The 7 habits of highly effective people'. In this great book there is a chapter about how we spend our time, and like our friend, I used to have the same habit. It would be the 'all or nothing' life style, I would have lots of deadline jobs, that I had to have done yesterday and then, when I had decided I had done enough work for the day, I would go home to do nothing other than sit and watch TV and think about how many jobs I HAVE to do, whilst sitting there, doing nothing!

The effective habit that is promoted, in the book, is basically to spend as much time as possible preparing for jobs, doing jobs that are important and not urgent. I now seem to spend more time doing little jobs, for a longer period of time (i.e. from when I get up in the morning, to when I go to bed at night). I now, feel like I do hardly any work and I get far more jobs done than ever before, with a better quality of workmanship.

This is great.

I am grateful, for this conversation with Kate, as I now realise, that this has become an unconscious habit.

Live life with an abundence.

Over the weekend, my family have spent time with my parents, at the seaside. We took our caravan, stayed at a campsite and spent our time, during the day, at a beach hut, where my mum and dad had planned a treasure hunt, for the 'Pirates and mermaids' party.

Now, my kids and my sisters kids (7 of them under the age of 7) loved getting dressed up, however, what I witnessed was that my parents and their friends, who are retired, enjoyed dressing up far more than the kids! It was great to see and since retiring, my parents seem to have decided that now is the time to live life with an abundance.

Through reading books of personnel development, I decided that, what ever your age, NOW, is time to live life with an abundance.

Have fun.

Avioding resource depletion

Over the winter period, I am really pleased to have attracted lots of support, for my racing this season. As I get more support, I realise how much more I need to achieve my goal, for example, having someone to maintain the bikes and practice with me and using the best bike parts, such as, factory suspension. This is all a part of avoiding resource depletion, which I have discussed in earlier bloggs.

I have got many ideas for my track that I will be putting in place over the next coming months. Doncaster Moto Parc will be providing many services for a wider sector of off-road motorcycling, which will consume a lot of my time. This is where having someone to maintain the bikes comes in. Somewhere across the board I have to reduce my time in one area to improve the services I want to provided in the business area of my life.

All I am doing is adjusting how I balance the wheel (as I've mentioned earlier). I am choosing to to spend more time in my career sector for a period of time, which, will require that I keep checking that I am still giving, in the other six areas of my life.

Hospital visit

My visit to hospital went as I had planned. There is no need for a cast any more and the scaphoid bone remains broken. I have ridden a little and my wrist feels fine, however, I need to seriously consider surgery to heal the bone to prevent the arthritis getting any worse than it already is, I am very unhappy about having to make this decision.

I think I should see this season out and then have an operation during the off season. This is my initial thought and could well change!

The doctor also pointed out, whilst looking at the x-rays, that I have had many other injuries in my hand, of which to me, I have been unaware of. Many times when I was racing in the Grand Prix I would injure myself and ride through the pain so I could keep on racing. I wonder how many more breaks I have had without knowing?

For me, I think adrenaline is a wonderful thing when racing, it makes hard to realise you have hurt yourself, whilst you are in the thick of racing. Wonderful!