Have you ever been so mindlessly into auto pilot that you miss the obvious and find yourself face-planted in the middle of an oopsy? Ouch. How do you recover and roll on when that happens?
Apparently my niece-in-law Rikki knows. Currently an out-of-country graduate school student, she relies on her bicycle to get around town. Recently she posted this Facebook remark:
What goes through my mind, on my bike ride home, while staring at the ground to make sure a pothole doesn’t sneak up on me again? Well the reason I hit the damn pot hole in the first place… “If you’re too focused on what’s ahead, you forget to notice what’s right in front of you.”
And then, in reply to a friend’s remark, “you just can’t win, can you?” she added: ...Continue reading » Surviving Setbacks 101
Have you ever been so mindlessly into auto pilot that you miss the obvious and find yourself face-planted in the middle of an oopsy? Ouch. How do you recover and roll on when that happens?
Apparently my niece-in-law Rikki knows. Currently an out-of-country graduate school student, she relies on her bicycle to get around town. Recently she posted this Facebook remark:
What goes through my mind, on my bike ride home, while staring at the ground to make sure a pothole doesn’t sneak up on me again? Well the reason I hit the damn pot hole in the first place… “If you’re too focused on what’s ahead, you forget to notice what’s right in front of you.”
And then, in reply to a friend’s remark, “you just can’t win, can you?” she added: ...Continue reading » Surviving Setbacks 101
