Life Lessons from Motorcycles: Seventy-Five Tips for Unleashing Your Power

By Liz Jansen

Unleashing your personal power requires understanding where it comes from, how much is there, how to access it, how to apply it, and, lastly, ensuring there’s enough fuel.
A motorcycle’s engine holds a tremendous amount of power—more than most of us come close to using. However, just because it’s capable of performing at a certain level doesn’t mean it always will. The rider needs to keep it maintained, feed it the proper type of fuel at the right time, monitor its health, know how to use that power in different situations, and be able to use the controls to manage that power.
We too have more power than we ever use. It’s there if we just allow it expression. The same concepts apply to us as to our motorcycles. Using that power means trusting that it’s there, caring holistically for our being, making wise choices, understanding what blocks our power, and discovering how we can best access it.
Even though this perspective forms merely the starting point, it can be hard to arrive at. The only way to find out what you’re capable of is to test your power and move past the barriers that hold you back.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Liz Jansen
• Release date: Feb 28, 2014
• ISBN: 9780987758378

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 MOTORCYCLE | SEVENTY-FIVE TIPS FOR UNLEASHING YOUR POWER

Liz Jansen

LIFE LESSONS FROM MOTORCYCLE | SEVENTY-FIVE TIPS FOR UNLEASHING YOUR POWER

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Introduction

Five Overarching Principles for Unleashing Your Power

Ten Traps That Prevent the Transfer of Power

Ten Choices Powerful People Make

Ten Life Lessons About Appearance

Ten Qualities to Look for in Advisors

Ten Ways to Maintain Power Through Balance

Ten Riding Skills That Teach Lessons on Personal Power

Ten Ways to Age With Power and Vitality

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Introduction

Unleashing your personal power requires understanding where it comes from, how much is there, how to access it, how to apply it, and, lastly, ensuring there’s enough fuel.

A motorcycle’s engine holds a tremendous amount of power—more than most of us come close to using. However, just because it’s capable of performing at a certain level doesn’t mean it always will. The rider needs to keep it maintained, feed it the proper type of fuel at the right time, monitor its health, know how to use that power in different situations, and be able to use the controls to manage that power.

We too have more power than we ever use. It’s there if we just allow