Have been a little slack to sign off cyclecor, but have been catching up with my family and perusing some Ayurvedic study in India. I also had some sad news in the last week of my journey, with my auntie Pi passing away. She was on of the reasons for cycling and raising money for mental health, I will miss her and I thank her for all her beautiful lessons. I wanted to thank also thank my family Jimbo, Marg and Jess for being so incredibly supportive (where ever my slightly unusual interests takes me). Jimbo for being my best mate, Mum for her constant advice, positive outlook and words of wisdom and Jess for inspiring and challenging me to be different and the best I can be…
As I am signing off I guess I can reflect on my highlights of my trip including having a gun put to my face in Honduras (left that out from the blog to save my mum (love you) from heart attack), meeting some incredible individuals, learning invaluable lessons about my body and mind relationship, breaking some limiting beliefs about myself, swimming with a crocodile, climbing Mt Chirripo, hitch hiking in Costa Rica and ticking, “cycling through Latin America” off my “101 things of things to do before I die” list.
In a slightly solemn reflection after my journey was complete in Panama City, I realised a few key things including the more goals I achieve the more I realise what is important in my life. The list of goals I want to achieve will continue to grow no matter how many I attain. As a result the feeling of hollowness on completion will reappear until I can understand that the only real success is; to strive for mastery of myself… Other lessons I learnt include
• The majority of people are good (we should not believe or buy into all the fear that the media spreads on a constant basis, go find out for yourself).
• I also learnt that every situation has a lesson and more often than not the more difficult the situation the more powerful the lesson.
• Furthermore it was engrained into me the importance of pushing my limits and living my life (in 2o years I will be more pissed off at the things I didn’t do, compared with what I did).
• I also learnt how lucky I am to be able to travel, expand my understanding of the world through experience, have food and water on my table, walk freely through my neighbourhood, and have a incredible family.
• And finally, ask “why?” more often especially when watching the news or any form of media.
It has been an amazing journey so far and stay tuned as the next adventure is in the planning.
Finally i will leave you with this from R.Shaman. Most people take the limits of their vision to be the limits of their world. A FEW DO NOT>. Remember we see the world not as it is but as we are. What’s your limiting belief about yourself? What bill of goods have you sold yourself as to what’s impossible? What false assumptions are you making in terms of what you can not have, do and be? Your thinking creates your reality. Your beliefs truly come self fulfilling prophecies (because your beliefs drive your actions….the size of your life reflects the SIZE of your thinking). “If you think something cannot occur in your life, then there’s no way you will take the action required to make the goal a reality. Your impossibility thinking mainifiests itself.
Again thanks for all the support
Dream Courageously. Willcadden
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