The Baggage of Life Is Slowing you Down
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated”
Confucius
You are Overpacked and Overwhelmed
You are packing too heavy. Would you carry five suitcases around the airport for an overnight trip? Likely not. Why are you carrying around all the failures, disappointments, resentments, and pain from your past? Have you considered why you’re lugging around all your fears about the future? All this baggage of life is slowing you down my man. It’s time to unpack and start traveling with only the things you need. I have learned to travel light and get where I need to go and so can you. Men’s self-help need not be complicated. Simple is best. Let’s do this thing.
Don’t Carry What you Don’t Need
I’ve ridden Harley Davidson motorcycles for decades and learned the hard way that huge horsepower motors break down a lot. A V-Twin with a mild cam is sufficient for me. No chrome, no tassles, no bullshit bolt-ons. Simple is best.
All I need for a successful 1,000 mile ride are good brakes, good tires, a full tank of gas, and a change of clothes. Carrying a few hundred bucks in cash and a credit card, just in case, takes care of emergencies. I don’t carry what I don’t need and keep things painfully simple.
Some of my riding buddies spend their hard earned cash on huge front wheels, chrome kits, raked out front ends, or eight speaker stereos. They pack like they’re going on a two week cruise. That ain’t how I roll. I keep shit simple and don’t carry extra baggage. It weighs me down and causes me stress I don’t need. Having the fastest of flashiest bike isn’t important to me. I get where I need to go carrying only what I need. With long haul motorcycle trips, extra baggage slows me down and the baggage of life is slowing you down.
Do An Inventory of Your Baggage
Most men I know are good at fixing things, managing their money, and being self-sufficient…but this is a website devoted to men’s self-help, afterall, and the one thing men suck at is asking for help, so I’ll make this easy on you: Ask yourself what you’re carrying around with you that’s doing you no good. What unnecessary baggage are you toting around with you that isn’t serving you? What would your life be like without this baggage? I’ll tell you: You’d be free to attack the road ahead of you, free from the past and not worried about the future.
Here’s an assignment for you:
Write down all the things you’re carrying around with you that are doing you no good: all your problems, regret for the past, resentment, worry about the future, bad habits, laziness, shitty relationships, negative thinking, or fear. Jot them down and consider how much better life would be without them. The baggage of life is slowing you down, so unpack your life and get rid of the things that won’t get you where you want to go. Only take into your future what is useful. Afterall, chrome don’t get ya home.
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See you in the shop,
Paul
