Did you ever see motorcycle racers go into a curve with a knee on the
tarmac and wonder why they ride this way? Speed skaters lean in the same way. They are using the laws of physics to minimize friction and win the race.
But leaning in is counter-intuitive and often scary, whether on a motorcycle or in facing a daunting life challenge.
Failure and Rebirth
My bankrupt business strained relationships with family and friends and brought me to the brink of suicide before motorcycling taught me to “lean in” and accept the many lessons that came in failure’s wake.
I speak to business and community groups on the lessons I’ve learned about myself and others during my travels, which I’m compiling into a book called, Leaning Into Life: Lessons From the Road.
Off the Road
I live in Charlotte, NC with my family, where I’m a ghost writer of books, articles, presentations and speeches for business professionals.
Inspired by the motorcyclists I met during my travels, women who survived cancer or live with it as a chronic condition, I wrote Live Full Throttle: Life Lessons From Friends Who Faced Cancer. Using photos, essays and exercises, the book is designed to help readers apply some of this wisdom to their own lives.
What's this blog offer that you can't get elsewhere? While I'm showing you people, places, cultures and ideas I'll also ask you to THINK. As one of my favorite authors said:Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” ~Mark Twain
