Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.
― Barry Finlay, Kilimanjaro and Beyond
― Barry Finlay, Kilimanjaro and Beyond
You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life
on the ground. – Unknown
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your
eyes off your goal. – Henry Ford
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the
happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it. – Andy Rooney
If you never attempt the ascent, you'll never know the thrill of
swooshing down the other side. - Unknown
Over the last
month, Terri’s Tuesday Tip of the Week has discussed dreams, dream boards,
goals and “mundane repetitiveness” (habits).
After a conversation with a friend last August, I had an epiphany. Accomplishing our dreams is like climbing a
mountain. When we dream, we are excited
about a new idea and are at the mountain peak.
We are drilling down on our dreams (going down the mountain) when we create
our goals and our habits are the base of the mountain. HOWEVER, to accomplish our dreams, we must
climb the mountain. We start at the base
of the mountain by doing our daily habits, which helps us accomplish our goals
advancing us up the mountain and we reach the peak of the mountain when we achieve
our dreams.
Last week, I
listened to a Business Boutique podcast (see Resources for podcast) by Christy
Wright that had a similar idea. She
stated that when you come up with an idea, you have to break down the dream
into smaller goals. In her podcast, she
did a formula of breaking down a goal all the way to the point of knowing how
many words to write in a day to complete a 70,000-word book in 6 months. Like me, she is a runner and used a running
analogy for the mountain. She said the
scariest part of running a hill is looking to the top and immediately trying to
reach the peak. Wright says that she
accomplishes running a hill one step at a time, one milestone at a time. After mundane repetitiveness of putting one
foot in front of another, she reaches the peak!
Life is like a mountain, the climb is hard, but when you reach
the top, the view is amazing. - Unknown
Challenge: What mountain are you climbing this year? What small steps do you need to do to reach
the peak of the mountain?
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