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9 Personal Branding Tips
Learn personal branding tips from the experts. Manufacturers go to great lengths to establish, protect and strengthen their image. This extends to how and where logos are shown, corporate colors, the type of people they hire and the activities they support. Merely being a rider brands you as an adventurer, risk taker, fun lover [...]
9 Reasons to Brake
Much as I like to minimize brake use, choosing instead to pace myself, there are times that life comes along and puts the brakes on for me. That happened this week. A minor ailment required me to change scheduled plans – something I’ll avoid at almost any cost. Nonetheless, it happens to all of us [...]
9 Sources of Junk Food for the Soul
Imagine feeding our motorcycles junk food: substandard oil, fuel or brake fluid. Most of us don’t do that. We give our motorcycles the highest quality ingredients possible and are rewarded with performance, safety, reliability and longevity. Yet when it comes to our spirit, we feed it junk food and expect high performance. Unlike a motorcycle, [...]
9 Building Blocks for Balance
Learning to achieve balance in your life is every bit as important as learning to balance a motorcycle. Following these suggestions will lead you to success in either. 9 building blocks for balance Know where you’re going. It sounds fundamental and it is. But it’s often forgotten and you end up trying to be everything to [...]
9 Tips for Getting Your Message Across
Getting your message across is a survival skill for motorcycle riders. In theory, using turn signals and brake lights alerts others to your intended action and helps avoid collisions. Although an admirable first step, assuming those communications have been acknowledged and understood, and that drivers will respond appropriately could prove to be a grave [...]
9 Habits to Keep You Grounded
Much like an electrical current is grounded to prevent a potentially damaging short circuit, your being needs a connection to the earth to stay grounded, balanced and healthy in body, mind and spirit. Motorcycles are literal proof positive of its necessity. Although only two small contact patches of rubber keep your motorcycle in touch with [...]
9 Choices Within your Circle of Control
It’s hard to picture anything more invigorating than a motorcycle ride through the countryside, feeling the wind, the sun and the freedom. You want it to last forever. As romantic as it sounds, it comes with a degree of risk. Thus the romanticism needs to be tempered with a healthy dose of reality. While your [...]
9 Ways to Stay Balanced While Dealing with Change
Nothing is static. Dealing with change, whether welcome or not, voluntary or imposed, is the norm. Yet there are times when the activity level reaches an unusually frenetic pace and it’s difficult to maintain balance. When riding a motorcycle, you know that every ride is an adventure. Often, you’re not aware of its nature until [...]
9 Important Things to Focus On
Mirrors reflect whatever they focus on. Motorcycles, the most vulnerable vehicles on the road, have only two of them. In a way, that makes things simpler. It also makes whatever they’re reflecting back that much more important. They’re an important safety feature but to be of value, mirrors have to be focused on what [...]
9 Riding Skills Teach Lessons on Personal Power
Proficiency and confidence go hand in hand with learning how to access personal power. No matter what skill you’re learning, developing it takes patience, practice and persistence. Every time you’re faced with a new challenge, there’ll be a learning curve as you discover increasing depths of power. The outcome is greater confidence, advanced skills and [...]
