I rode my bike early on Wednesday morning, started off about seven o'clock and rode for about an hour on my own before I met Alex for the second half of our Wednesday morning ride as he was delayed coming down the M1.
It's been a while since I rode early like that for various reasons, and I'd forgotten how important it is.
I'd also forgotten how important it is to ride on my own, because that's when my mind opens up and I can declutter and put things in the right order and think about things that are really important, that's when I get to the other side of things.
I like to try to find these creative moments in my life, when I start to find solutions to problems or new ideas of ways of taking things forward and being on the bike is one of the best ways to do that.
It makes me think about the bigger things and what's important, what my priorities are and what my principles are.
In another conversation a little bit before that bike ride, I was talking to Callum’s friends at our house.
They're a group of young 15-year-old lads, and they're really decent boys but they were talking about the size of the universe (they're at that age).
They were just staggered, felt sick, absolutely overcome with trying to comprehend the size of something that they'll never comprehend the size of and so I explained to them (they already knew this) that the universe is actually shrinking back down to about the size of a full stop come some billions of years from now.
Obviously, this caused some disruption to the conversation as they tried to consider this and then I said, “I have another question, though”.
And so, they waited for the question.
I said, “as the universe contracts towards the size of a dot, what's on the other side of that?”.
I think thinking about what's on the other side of things is a wonderful way to bring perspective to your life and to allow you to carve a path to where everything is going next.
Blog Post Number - 3394
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