So we climb the mountain every day (we get to decide which one we climb – some of us climb more than one, some many, simultaneously). It is fine to choose which one or ones you climb but understand this… climb them you must.
No one has yet, as least as far as I can tell, identified a way of going from the base to the summit without passing up the side of the mountain; this is very well explained in this video by Simon Sinek here.
After 1,300 or more blogs please excuse me if I have used this video before but it returns to me time and time again. Sinek suggests that it is a millennial problem but I wonder if it is bigger than that. I encounter it now in 13 year olds that I meet but also 45 year olds that I meet. More and more people understand that the addiction to capitalism brings no ‘value’ and they are looking for the next big thing. But many of those people that you speak to still don’t seem to understand that there is a mountain to be climbed before you reach anywhere near the top. I think perhaps in many cases the top is unreachable, that is why the process of climbing the mountain must be embraced and loved. If you don’t look back and love the effort that you have put in to get to where you have got to then you must change your mountain, change your target. All of us in one way or another want to feel we have made a difference, this would be the legacy project which is identified many years ago by people much more clever than me. It might be as simple as the plants in your garden, it might be your children, it might be your friends, extended family or career. In all of those, it is one engagement at a time. One day at a time of your marriage, one patient at a time in my job, one training session at a time. Little by little, day-by-day, drip-by-drip we can make a difference. But it is not time to count the rewards yet, it’s not time to look at the bank balance, the satisfaction comes from the fact that you are on the mountain and still climbing.
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