Contrary to popular opinion, you can’t actually manage time, you can only manage what you do during time.
So… how do you feel about time?
Generally younger people want time to speed up and older people want time to slow down.
My theory of time perception that as we age we tend to experience time passing more quickly. Ask any body of any age, did last year seem to faster than any other?
When we were five years old a year is 20% of our live and that is a big chunk. When I was forty, a year was 2.5% of my life. That is a much smaller chunk (although it of course the same amount of time – barring leap years). So a year is relatively less time in my forties than when I was younger and it just seems to pass more quickly
As time marches on we can choose to feel bad, indifferent or good about it.
Because we do tend to think about time often, then, for the sake of our happiness, it follows that we should try to feel good about it.
How do we do this? Well, whenever we think about the past, present or future, we do so in a way that makes us feel good.
1. When we think of the past, focus on things that bring a smile to our faces. Achievements we’re proud of, events we enjoyed, people we enjoyed being with… even embarrassing moments that make us laugh now. Whatever makes us feel happy.
2. When we’re in the present, try to BE in the present. To enjoy and appreciate what we have RIGHT NOW. From the “big” things, like the wonderful people in our lives, to the littlest things.
3. When we think about the future, we think about the GREAT things we expect it to bring. We visualize having everything we want, being happy, and having everyone around us be happy.
That’s all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. ~Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Most motorcycle problems are caused by the nut that connects the handlebars to the saddle. ~Author Unknown
Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul. ~Author Unknown
Midnight bugs taste best. ~Author Unknown
You’re the guy that’ll be sneaking out of your bedroom at three o’clock in the morning to look at your bike. ~Paul Teutul, Sr., American Chopper, “Billy Joel”
It takes more love to share the saddle than it does to share the bed. ~Author Unknown
Bikes don’t leak oil, they mark their territory. ~Author Unknown
Keep your bike in good repair: motorcycle boots are not comfortable for walking. ~Author Unknown
Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. ~Hunter Thompson
The best alarm clock is sunshine on chrome. ~Author Unknown
And I to my motorcycle
Parked like the soul of the junkyard
Restored, a bicycle fleshed
With power, and tore off
Up Highway 106, continually
Drunk on the wind in my mouth,
Wringing the handlebar for speed,
Wild to be wreckage forever.
~James Dickey, “Cherrylog Road”
A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. ~Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
What do you call a cyclist who doesn’t wear a helmet? An organ donor. ~David Perry
If you don’t ride in the rain, you don’t ride. ~Author Unknown
Whatever it is, it’s better in the wind. ~Author Unknown
Catching a yellow-jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary. ~Author Unknown
Life is too short for traffic. ~Dan Bellack
Work to ride and ride to work. ~Author Unknown
Burn rubber, not your soul, baby. ~Craig Fernandez and Reggie Bythewood, Biker Boyz
Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead. ~Mac McCleary
Remember folks, street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph. ~Jim Samuels
Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window. ~Author Unknown
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. ~Author Unknown
Well-trained reflexes are quicker than luck. ~Author Unknown
Don’t argue with an 18-wheeler. ~Author Unknown
Safety doesn’t happen by accident. ~Author Unknown
Sometimes the best communication happens when you’re on separate bikes. ~Author Unknown
When you’re riding lead, don’t spit. ~Author Unknown
Maintenance is as much art as it is science. ~Author Unknown
Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy. ~Author Unknown
Never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly. ~Author Unknown
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. ~Author Unknown
Two-lane blacktop isn’t a highway – it’s an attitude. ~Author Unknown
Accidents hurt – safety doesn’t. ~Author Unknown
If you ride like there’s no tomorrow, there won’t be. ~Author Unknown
Keep the paint up, and the rubber down! ~Author Unknown
Everyone crashes. Some get back on. Some don’t. Some can’t. ~Author Unknown
Life may begin at 30, but it doesn’t get real interesting until about 150. ~Author Unknown
