Spokes and wheels: Do you intergrate biking with other aspects of your life?
If you’ve done this already, I congratulate you–and I have a little bit of envy too.
It feels like every aspect of life–your work, your family, your health, your dreams, your passions are strong wires pulling you in different directions, competing for your time and energy. There’s a tug of war going on, and usually when you try to enhance one part of your life there’s a sacrifice or a trade-off somewhere else.
But what if your life could be a wheel? You’re the hub, the different things that pull on you are the spokes, and if you get them integrated you have a perfect, smooth-spinning wheel?
This isn’t just vague theory, I’m finding ways of making it happen. I’ll share some of these if there’s an interest. But what about you? Leave a comment if you’ve found ways that biking can enhance other parts of your life, and that life can enhance your biking.
The only thing I can think of is using my bike instead of the car. This saves me time on short trips because I don’t have to deal with traffic and parking. It’s free exercise and of course I get the bike ride! Instead of making time for all of these separately I get to do them all at once. Is that what you’re talking about?
Hmmm, my husband and I ride our bikes to different cafes in the morning for breakfast. We get a date in before work, making ‘work’ just a part of the day, but not the bulk of it.