TESTING YOUR LIMITATIONS
Sand driving teaches you about your limitations.
The first lesson you learn is that appearances are deceiving.
Traversing a sea of sand may look like a piece of cake, but
fifteen seconds later you are monumentally stuck with sand up to
your chassis. At other times, you look at what appears to be
difficult terrain, and you pass easily through it like you're
driving in a mall parking lot. You can't tell ahead of time
how hard the slogging will become until you get into gear and
start moving. Appearances truly are deceiving.
The second lesson you learn is that the only way to find out if
limitations are real is to test them.
If you want to live your sand dreams, you have to test the sand
all the time. You must allow yourself the luxury of testing
your limitations many times each day. When you do that, you
discover that you can do many things you previously considered
impossible.
Take a look at the wheel tracks in this picture. One pair of
tracks leads to a Defender far off in the distance. When he
went down the slip face into the valley of doom, he kept on
trucking. You can see two patches of soft sand in his wheel
tracks where he powered through without getting stuck.
The second set of tracks belongs to a Nissan Patrol. This
vehicle went into the valley of doom and got stuck. His
tracks show that he almost made it out the other side on his first
attempt, but he had to back up and make another try. He made
it out on his second go.
I'm standing on top of the dune surveying the landscape trying to
figure out which way to head. I had no clue as to whether I
would get stuck in the valley of doom, but I also had no choice.
If I wanted to test my limitations, I had to go down the slip face
and see what happened. I put the accelerator all the way to
the floor in second gear when I hit the bottom of the slip face,
and I easily powered out of the hole.
That's the way life works. There's hundreds of sand traps
out there, and if you want to drive in the sand, it's inevitable
that you will discover many pits of apparent despair. That's
to be expected, because you are living your sand dreams.
If you want to live your dreams, you must test your limitations
every day. There is no other way.
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