A major distraction in my life that detours me away from riding a bicycle is my former morning routine asserting itself. Get up, get the paper, putter around in the house in my bathrobe, check email, update a couple of web pages, more puttering until ohmygawd it’s time to go to work, half an hour ago. If I’m still wearing my bathrobe at that point I just throw on some random clothes and hop in the truck for a drive.
Today I tried something a bit different. Rather than putting on the bathrobe I started by pulling on the clothes I ride in. The I puttered around, updated web pages, checked email and news and then ohmygawd it’s time to go to work! I was already dressed to ride so i just added the helment and gloves and got on the bike.
If you’re on the edge of doing something – get dressed for it. You can always change your mind later and change again. Or you can leverage that tiny bit of preparation, after the required suitable period of procrastination, and do whatever.
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