It's all in the way you look at it.

Time to write something. I want to write something everyday but I haven't been here in months!

PERSPECTIVE!

Perspective is my word for the day (or maybe few days!) You have an incredible ability to see things anyway you want to.

Saturday I did a mountain bike race and I am not even what you would call a biker. Now, I HAVE biked, I own a mountain bike and I like a challenge so I would be lying if I said I went into this thing blindly. However, I, like always, was very unprepared for what I was getting into!

Nearly 28 miles of dirt, sand, single track and two track hills. Not just hills but HILLS! Hills lined with trees! I could add that I did this race on these tracks along side over 4000 other people but that wasn't the case because I started in the very back. Tracy and I went in the LAST wave of bikers and we were smart to start in the back of our group. My brother (Tracy's husband) had to start a few waves in front of us so he was in the middle of a crowd. He saw people wipe out and even ran over a poor guys arm.

There were times when my legs were burning and I would think to myself "this sucks!" but when I changed my thinking it became fun. So, like the marathon when Amy and I would get tired and trick ourselves, I did the same thing in this race. Coming up on the mile marker that said 9 MILES. My first thought was "9 MORE MILES OF THIS!?" I wasn't sure I could do that. My legs were burning. I shook it off, took a drink of water and changed my thoughts. I looked over at Tracy and said "Hey Tracy, want to take a nice 9 mile ride through the woods on this beautiful day?" She said "Sure, that would be fun" and suddenly, I felt good again.

Other times I pretended I was one of the pace bikes in a marathon because when I'm running I think how much I wish I was on the bike!

I don't only try to trick only in races, I do it in everyday life if I feel I need to. I even trick my kids.

When the kids wont get up for school I tell them "No school today because of snow" and they jump right up! On nights when I can't get to sleep I tell myself I have to get up and suddenly I realize how comfortable and warm I feel in my bed and I want to sleep.

Change your perspective and the whole situation changes!