13/3/2015
After breakfast, I went
for a nice, easy bike ride along the Torrens river to the beaches.
The paths towards the beach are well maintained and the scenery is
beautiful for most of the ride. Adelaide is a lovely city, some
people that I spoke to in the caravan park suggest that it is the
most beautiful of all capital cities in Australia. While I can't
judge that as I haven't been to many of them, I agree that it is a
very nice place to be. Once I hit the beach, I rode in northerly
direction and found a nice coffee shop in Henley. Third cappuccino in
a row in Adelaide that was nice – there are definitely benefits to
being in a proper city again! All up it was about 42km and I had a
nice tail wind on the way back (head wind on the way to the beach
though).
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| Jetty in Henley |
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| Great ride - was the absolutely right decision to go for the Roubaix |
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| Could not resist to punish my body with a choc muffin, the sugar rush propelled me home in record time |
As I was going to store
the bike in the van again, I gave it the best clean that it ever got
– and it looks even better now than before. I begin to understand
my grandfathers obsession with cleaning his bikes! Nothing better
than a shiny chain and bike!
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| Shiny! |
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| Shiny carbon fiber - thanks to whomever invented it! |
I finished Sir Richard
Branson's book,
'The Virgin Way' today and would like to quote a
section from the last chapter of the book in order to not forget it:
'You're guaranteed to
miss every shot you don't take.' So take hat shot! Don't brood over
one idea or another for two or three years as many people do – give
it a go! Don't get lulled into the morass of perpetual paralysis by
analysis: if your instinct is positive then go with it. You will
learn so many more lessons by just doing than you ever will by
mulling it over and over. [...] Trust the process, trust your
instincts and trust your team. Don't start second-guessing yourself
or worrying about a few mistakes along the way – you will only
learn from them. Just be sure that you don't make the same mistakes
over and over - then you should worry!
Very true isn't it? But is
that what we regularly do when working in our day to day jobs? I
hardly think so. Do we learn from our mistakes? I leave that one
un-commented.
Follow your dreams
and just do it
Make a positive
difference and do some good
Believe in your ideas
and be the best
Have Fun and look
after your team
Don't give up
Listen, take lots of
notes and keep setting new challenges
Delegate and spend
more time with your family
Turn off that laptop
and iPhone and get your derriere out there
Communicate,
collaborate and communicate some more
Do what you love and
have a couch in the kitchen
While some of them sound
funny, he details what stands behind these subject lines in the book.
A teaser for all the readers of my blog, and reminder for me again
for later.
As previously pointed out,
this book is not only very inspirational but hits the nail on its
head very often. I recommend it to everybody that is working, doesn't
matter in which capacity; as a leader, entrepreneur or employee.
Working in large organisations could be so much better, in my humble
opinion, if we would embrace some of what Sir Richard is pointing out
in this and his other books.
A must read!
In the afternoon I went
for a lengthy walk, mainly through North Adelaide and ended up in The
Lion again, for a glass of 2014 Crab Tree Clare Valley Riesling
(nice!) and a free WiFi connection ;-)
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| Yesterday's cap - they know there stuff over here and don't overheat the milk! :-) |
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| Funny sign I saw - don't know what South Australian's usually do when they depart that justifies such a sign. But I've seen it again at another place today! |
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