Life Lessons from Motorcycles: Seventy-Five Tips for Clearing Your Vision

By Liz Jansen

Learning to use your vision to control your direction is the first lesson new motorcycle riders are taught. The same principles apply to life and for the same reason: you’re drawn to where you’re looking.
Unless you know where you’re going, how can you expect to get there? Establishing a vision based on your interests and desires, then taking the steps to reach that destination, paves the way for you to get there. Even if you’ve never articulated a personal vision, or if the one you came up with is something completely different than what you’re currently doing, use this wisdom to get started living the life you were meant to live.
Like riding a motorcycle safely, fulfilling your vision requires keeping an eye on the future as well as the present. Constantly scanning your environment prepares you to respond to curves, traffic, and the unexpected. At the same time, you need to look well down the road and focus on your destination.
Life’s road is full of adventure, curves, obstacles—and gifts. While there may be areas of construction, detours, and unexpected delays, making these steps the basis of your actions means living your vision.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Liz Jansen
• Release date: Jul 23, 2014
• ISBN: 9780993723759

Liz Jansen

Niagara native Liz Jansen was born into a German Mennonite culture, the granddaughter of Russian refugees. Since she began riding a motorcycle at age sixteen, she’s logged hundreds of thousands of miles of mostly solo riding across Canada and the United States. While Liz enjoys the rugged beauty of Ontario’s northern wilderness, she has a particular fondness for the open expanses of the Canadian prairies and Midwestern plains. Liz is a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada, the Non-Fiction Authors Association, the Alliance of Independent Authors, and the Independent Book Publishers Association. Crash Landing is her third book. She lives in Ontario with her cat, Measha, and Trudy, her Triumph Tiger motorcycle.

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LIFE LESSONS FROM MOTORCYCLES | SEVENTY-FIVE TIPS FOR PROTECTING YOUR VISION

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LIFE LESSONS FROM MOTORCYCLES | SEVENTY-FIVE TIPS FOR PROTECTING YOUR VISION

Liz Jansen

Introduction

Five Overarching Principles for Clearing Your Vision

Ten Tips for Setting Goals

Ten Ways to Protect Your Vision

Ten Ways to Balance Long-Term Goals With Short-Term Needs

Ten Impediments to Clear Lines of Sight

Ten Distractions That Put You at Risk

Ten Ways in Which Slowing Down Supports Your Vision

Ten Pieces of Protective Gear for the Spirit

Acknowledgements

About the Author

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Introduction

Learning to use your vision to control your direction is the first lesson new motorcycle riders are taught. The same principles apply to life and for the same reason: you’re drawn to where you’re looking.

Unless you know where you’re going, how can you expect to get there? Establishing a vision based on your interests and desires, then taking the steps to reach that destination, paves the way for you to get there. Even if you’ve never articulated a personal vision, or if the one you came up with is something completely different than what you’re currently doing, use this wisdom to get started living the life you were meant to live.

Like riding a motorcycle safely, fulfilling your