Basic principle remains the same everywhere

I should admit, road cycling is pretty new to me (here, I am not considering the bike rides which I did in my teen-life).

As I wrote in one of my earlier blogs, I bike regularly in the Santiago Canyon. Mostly I pass through few mountains during my rides. The gradients in couple of mountains are really steep. Initially, when I was going through these steep grades, I used to look at the whole length of the steep grade and used to get nervous of the difficult ride ahead, I have to paddle through! After few rides in those steep grades, I thought to change my approach in looking at the entire steep route.

Instead of looking for the tough challenging entire slope ahead of me; I started concentrate on just paddling and looking not more than few yards ahead of me and this strategy worked very well for me in climbing the steep road smoothly.

“Divide and conquer” – this principle is the same in every aspect of life. Like in our work life, if we have a long difficult program in hand then we look at immediate or near-term milestones and achieving those (keeping in mind the end result – schedule, cost and quality) and it allows us to manage difficult project efficiently and help us stay focus in our program.

So, there is surprise to see the similarity between applicability of basic principles in our daily life and work life.

During 27th and 28th July 15, 2012, I am going to participate in the RAGBRAI (http://ragbrai.com/) bike event in Cedar Rapids IA and the total distance I will be covering would be little over 100 miles. So, I have to keep in mind (and apply) this simple principle during this long ride!