The importance of focus. And Motorbikes.

I love motorbikes. Specifically, fast motorbikes. With more bhp than kg's.

Mum had a moped before she passed her driving test. Growing up, my job every now and then was to fire it up and run it around the block, just to keep it active. Did that as a kid.

Then a friend at school had one - we were aged 15 at the time. We took it out across the field and rode like idiots with no helmets. It was only 50cc or something like that, but it felt big at that age. Then I got a 125cc. A 500cc. Rode a 750cc. Then a whole series of 1000cc bikes. My latest, and dearest crotch rocket is a modified ZX12RR.

Isn't that just a beautiful looking machine?

I've always liked the sensation of motion - running, cycling, swimming. That, combined with freedom to go wherever you like, especially when flying, whether motorised, in a glider or by hang gliding, is just a wonderful thing for me.

Motorcycling provides the same independence and freedom to act on the road as an aeroplane does for me in the air. A fast bike can take me from 0 to 200 mph and back in less than 20 seconds. Or I can be hanging half off said bike going around a corner at a huge rate of knots, defying gravity, changing direction by hardly moving my body at all. I can go around cars, dodge speed cameras, accelerate up steep hills, dive into hairpin corners.

Nothing gets in the way, nothing slows me down. Nothing can touch me. Not that I ride at 200mph everywhere; sometimes I do go slowly and take pleasure in very precise but loose, flowing riding.

If you want an adrenaline rush that is also calming, try taking a bike to 180mph+ and then closing your eyes for a few seconds (or better still ,be a pillion passenger!), so all you can feel is the wind pressure pushing against you, and the wind noise in your ears. It's a beautiful thing.

That may sound strange, written down like that, but in the moment, it is such an amazing feeling of 'at one'.

The wind noise is a particularly weird thing. At about 80mph it sounds like a hiss. At 150ish it is a roar, literally. At 200mph+ it is more like a pouring liquid sound. Strange.

Anyway. FOCUS. : )

Whatever your pastimes are, or the biking or flying equivalent is for you, you'll know (unless you are a professional bike racer or pilot, lucky sod) that focusing is important and challenging part of being an entrepreneur. Especially if you would really like to be out riding a motor bike, or whatever.…

Well, good news if you are anything like me. Well known entrepreneur blog "The TP Entrepreneur" raised this as an issue… and included one of my tips ( number 13 out of 100) amongst a raft of other useful ways to stay on task and focus.. have a look here .....