How is Anything You Do Like Everything You Do?

Welcome back if you’ve been here before, and if it’s your first time visiting, I’m glad you’re here. Yes, I did go for another bike ride yesterday, another long one up to Ashcroft near Aspen. It was definitely a challenge that’s for sure. The day before it seemed easy, and yesterday it felt like I was missing a gear

I’ve been recounting my cycling forays into the back-country valleys here near Aspen as an introduction to my tips on what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur.

In a way you could say, “How is your cycling like your life?” I often say to my students, when I’m teaching skiing, “notice if there are any similarities between your approach to sliding down the mountain and how you live your life.” So bringing that analogy into any sport, including cycling, I’m sure has value.

So yesterday I cycled up to Ashcroft, up Castle Creek Valley near Aspen. In 1883 Ashcroft, a former silver mining town, was booming. It had 20 saloons a newspaper and a school. Shallow silver deposits, and a motherlode discovered in Aspen, prompted its residents to leave. By 1885 the town went bust. By 1939 the last resident died thus making it a ghost town. Now only a few old log buildings remain.

In summers tourists come and visit and let their imaginations stroll through days gone by, cyclists speed by eyes on the road, and a tour guide entertains visitors, relishing his/her days among these magnificent ragged mountain peaks.

In my mind I briefly entered the mining world as it might have been more than a century ago as I came around the last corner. Parking my bike by the Ashcroft sign, I was very happy to be up over that last long steep hill. After taking off my headset, having listen to inspiring dialogue all the way up the valley, and taking a long draw of fresh water from my Camelback, I headed for the only big tree near the road to get some shade. I was hot and tired. I munched on a Cliff Bar and soon had my camera out trying, unsuccessfully, to capture the beauty around me. What a great ride.

There were times along the way that I said to myself, well, I’ve come far enough. I can turn around here before this next big long steep hill. I’ve had enough exercise. Many people don’t even do what I just did. I can take it easy today. But my goal was to go to Ashcroft. That was my clear goal when I started. Was I going to quit on myself? Was I going to listen to justifications on why not to achieve my goal

There was a brief moment there as I was crossing the bridge over Castle Creek looking up that hill that I know seems to go forever when you’re on it, when I hesitated. Just like business, there can be moments of doubt or frustration. I’ve learned to ask myself, will this choice take me closer or further away from my goal? That question to myself keeps me on track.

My goal being to get in great shape this summer and shed at least 20 pounds, I tuned in and thought to myself, it’s just a little further, Ashcroft is just at the top of this hill, I can do it.

In business being positive is so important. That “I can attitude” even when you’re tired and discouraged, is key. So as I look at my life, I see I’m a trooper, I don’t give up. I stick to it until I’ve reached my goals. How is what you do in your life in one area the same as what you do in other areas? It works in the reverse too. Change one area of your life and you’ll find that other areas clear up as well

Please leave me a comment in the box below. I would love to hear from you. I look forward to reading what comes to your mind on this topic. Tell me about your life. Are you an entrepreneur? If not are you sick of your life the way it is and looking for a business you can do from home so you can have more freedom? I look forward to hearing from you, Martha

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