Slow and Steady... · The Exit Engineers

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May 4 (edited) • Nuggets

Slow and Steady...

I mountain bike and ski...as often as I can.

I have been able to ride and ski a lot more since I quit my job last November, and that makes me happy. I used to use the two sports as an escape, but now I see them differently, I realized.

I was mountain biking the other day and realized that the way I approach riding a bike on dirt is, in many ways, the way I approach my finances.

You see, I live in the foothills of the Wasatch, some steep mountains, so when I go to ride, it is all uphill until I turn around and come back down. Climbing takes some skill, definitely some fitness, but it is mostly a head game. Turning off the ego and just grinding up the hill is sometimes the only way to progress.

And sometimes you have to walk.

The video below is one of those times.

I have a sign on a shelf next to my desk that says:

"Look far off only long enough to see the goal - then start where you are, put your head down and take one step at a time".

This is a defining pillar in Tortoise Method.

How do you create headspace when things get hard?

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