Rewire Your Brain, It Is As Easy As Riding A Bike.

Posted on 02/05/2015 by Grumpa Joe

As easy as riding a bike, you never forget. Most of us learn to ride a bike very young. In my case I was about seven or eight when I borrowed a friends bike and tried it. I had to pull it up next to the curb to get on, and my legs were too short to sit and reach the pedals, but I launched and got the hang of it pretty quick. I have never had a problem until I switched to riding a recumbent. All of a sudden the mechanics were different. I practiced on my driveway making figure eights to develop confidence. I can still ride a diamond frame, but now I fell like planet earth is six  feet below my feet, and the illusion is that I will  fly over the handle bars very easily.

When I saw this video, I freaked. What a crazy thing to do to a bike, and to the rider. Yet, the young many makes a couple of good points with his experiment.  I will take  his word for it, that I couldn’t ride a bike with handle steering reversed.

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Visualize This

Posted on 02/05/2015 by Grumpa Joe

It took me a long time to discover the power of visualization, and when I did I kicked myself in the ass for not doing so sooner. I learned how to play tennis in high school, and loved the sport. My biggest problem, I choked in a match. I was so worried about hitting the ball into the net, and losing a point I did just that. In my mind I saw the ball hitting the net. When the visualization thing came to me while listening to a positive thinking lecture my tennis game popped into mind. If only I had visualized the ball going over the net instead of hitting it. Oh well, it was too late to improve my game.

When I saw this image sent by my friend Mike, the visualization process came to mind. This diagram lays out an administration dream team. In my opinion this team would do two things for the USA: first it would set the country back on the correct track to economic recovery, liberty, and all the while staying within the Constitution. Second, the team would set back the Progressive movement about three hundred years.

DSCN4971Let me know what you think, I know what I’m seeing in my mind. The only change I would make is to get the photo of Scott Walker correct, I don’t know whose picture that is, but it isn’t Scott Walker Governor of Wisconsin.

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“The rejection letter” by Carl D’Agostino

Posted on 02/05/2015 by Grumpa Joe

As I near the completion of my book, my knees begin to quiver with anticipation of the publisher’s response. Hopefully, it will be as creative as the one below, and not a sterile, cold put down.

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