Do you remember when you learnt to ride a bike? I expect you fell off, a lot? I did!

When you first started off you were probably very unsure what to expect - you knew it was possible to ride a bike because you knew of other people who had done it before, but seeing someone do something, and doing it for yourself are two very different things. You were cautious at first because it was a new experience, and relied on a push from someone to get you started.

As you grasped the basics you would have felt very proud of yourself, until you lost concentration and ploughed into the ground in a heap of legs and bike. Other times you might have been going along concentrating so hard that you didn’t realise how far you’d gone, and might even suddenly have realised you no longer knew where you were going because you had gone straight by your original destination without giving it a second thought!

At some point during your bike learning experience you realised that if you look at the ground and concentrated on the negative things like falling off, you probably did fall off. However by feeling confident and acting confident, you somehow just knew how to succeed, and how to enjoy having control of the journey…