Hey everyone, welcome to a new session you
are with me Niharika and you are watching
me on Skillopedia, the place to learn skills
for the real world. Well life is all about
balancing, right? Just how you ride your bicycle.
Well it’s important for you to balance it
right. I totally enjoy riding and I just got
back from my ride, so a little tired but yes
I am here to help you with a very interesting
session. It’s about the seven joys that
I have learnt from riding my bicycle. What
are these? How it has changed my life, well
that’s what we are gonna look at in today's
session on Skillopedia. So stay tuned with
me.
So here are the lessons that cycling actually
taught me. First one is patience. Now creating
a good habit of cycling does not actually
come so easily. I mean like every habit there
is a lot of trial and error and that's how
you learn. I mean you fall, then you try again
and then you fail again and then you get up
again, I mean it just goes on and on and it
just seems that it’s taking forever. But
that’s okay! I mean anything that’s worth
it, well its worth trying right? So this is
what cycling taught me. So as you can see
that cycling actually taught me patience,
it showed me that good things really take
time. But these are the things which are totally
worth it. So in same manner if in life you
are trying to achieve something, remember
it will take time and that’s what patience
is all about.
The next one that I learnt was increase confidence.
Yes I mean cycling has increased my confidence
big time. I feel really confident on my ride.
I mean every morning when I wake up, I go
on my rides, I just feel that I can achieve
everything. I can complete any kind of ride.
Be it crazy steep climbs or be it dangerous
descents, or just trying to balance myself.
I mean I totally love it. Now this gives me
huge boost to my self-esteem and of course
it helps me to achieve a lot. I mean it gives
me a feeling pride an accomplishment. If I
can ride confidently, of course I am gonna
accomplish my destination, right? I am gonna
get there. So that’s what cycling actually
taught me. It has made me more confident.
What's the next thing? Well time management.
I was so bad at managing time. But guess what,
cycling has actually helped me to manage my
time really well. Back in college, I mean
I'll be honest, I felt like time would just
be there for me and I just took it for granted.
I would never accomplished what I had to I
could never finish my projects on time and
one day my friend say, "Hey, why don't we
start riding cycle?" And I was like, "Okay,
let's do it, let's try it." Well trust me,
after that every morning I used to wake up
and I used to go for my ride for about an
hour, I just felt so fresh and this helped
me to manage my time really well. I mean my
daily schedule was updated every single morning
because I used to wake up early, I used to
feel really refreshed after my ride and then
I used to plan my day very well. So this also
helped me to be productive. I mean, if you
want to be productive, you need to manage
your time well, right? If you have no sense
of time, if you just take every single day
for granted, you are not gonna accomplish
things. So if you wanna be more productive,
well you got to start managing your time really
well. And that’s what this little baby actually
taught me.
The next thing that I learnt was it reveals
my character. Just like any sport, I mean
cycling has also helped me to reveal my character.
I mean it just shows that how different I
am as a person. It helps me to understand
myself really better. There was a time when
I used to actually ask questions to myself,
yes when I used to be like on a steep climb
and I used to just sit, I used to ask questions
to myself, any self-doubs that I had about
myself, I used to answer them. I used to wonder
if there's someone to actually help the along
the way. But hey guess what, there was nobody,
it was just me, I had no help, I had no support
when I used to ride my cycle, so what I used
to do is ask myself try and try till I succeed
and this is how I actually revealed my character.
Now I know what kind of a person I am and
what kind of a character I have. SO in a way
I have been able to actually work on my personal
growth. And how this happened? Well thanks
to my hobby of cycling.
Well here’s the next thing, it makes me
powerful. When I am on the bike, I honestly
feel so powerful. I mean every time I go faster
and faster and every stroke of the pedal,
I feel like I am getting on something new
and that’s really exciting for me. I mean
something new, something better, oh yes! I
feel powerful about it. It just makes you
feel in control of your destiny. At least
for that one moment. Yes! I mean when you
are riding you cycle and imagine you can control
your destiny, oh my god, what feeling is that?
A sense of feeling that’s so powerful does
wonders to your state of mind. That’s what
cycling has done to me. I mean cycling for
me is a wonderful way to attain that feeling.
It just makes me feel so amazing.
The next one is, it makes me graceful. Now
every sport requires grace, some kind of a
grace and this grace comes over time and constant
practice. Now since I have made cycling a
daily habit, I now can concentrate on doing
it with grace. I mean, come on, now I can
ride it effortlessly, right? So to make it
look effortless, even though it takes a lot
of strength and power, I mean I tell you guys,
it’s not easy but this grace is something
I have now tried to even use it in other tasks.
So it’s not just cycling, I mean anything
that you perform, you need to perform with
grace. And at the end of the day, you must
do things and do them amazingly well, right?
So that’s what cycling has taught me.
Here's another lesson that I have learnt,
that’s freedom and adventure. Now when you
sit on that bike, you never know how the weather
will be, right? I mean it can be really cold,
it can be really sunny, I mean it could be
a sunny day with the wind in your face and
just not able to ride it. Well or it might
just rain and you will get completely drenched
riding the cycle. Now you can take that bike
and go anywhere, anytime, you choose. It's
like an adventure that you are going on every
single day. Of course it also gives you freedom
from the usual modes of transport, right?
I mean, you don't have to go, get into that
car and get stuck in traffic. I mean that’s
really annoying these days, right? I mean,
we all stuck for hours in traffic. So it definitely
helps you to beat the traffic and the usual
boredom of commuting. Having a sense of freedom
and adventure, always makes an exciting and
interesting life. So guys this is what I have
learnt. So that’s what cycling has actually
done for me. These are the things I totally
cherish in my life. I hope that you also after
watching this session specially you also start
cycling and trust me it’s gonna be a big
change for you.
So thank you so much for watching this. I
really hope that you would enjoy the ride
of this session as much as I did sharing it
with you. Now please let me know if have any
other hobbies that inspires you as much as
cycling does for me. I will be back with some
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