I read this during one of my daily mindset training last week:
The Appalachian Trail is approximately 2,200 miles long, winding up and down and through rugged mountains from Georgia to Maine. It takes thru-hikers an average of 165 rigorous days to make the trip, and it requires about 5,500 calories a day to sustain their strength. That’s equivalent to nearly 10 Big Macs daily. Hiking the entire Appalachian Trail in one summer is grueling, but it simply requires putting one foot in front of the other—about five million times.
Life’s journey can be compared to a walk—but it’s no easy stroll.
It’s an arduous hike requiring perseverance.
When we set a goal and begin our walk, we’re like infants taking their first steps – filled with glee but don’t know quite what we’re doing.
But as we continue on the journey towards our goal, our footsteps should become more stable, firm, and determined.
You will get tired and weary
Rest, but don’t give up.
Here are some key insights for your journey:
- The journey towards any achievement is mostly unexciting. Give up the false hopes and expectations. These will cause you to bail on the trail when they’re not met!
- Learn to master the mundane. Find ways to make the routines rich and reward yourself for small achievements.
- Commit to the journey. It will take extreme discipline to experience the extreme excitement that punctuates the journey.
- Stay the course. Know in advance that those few and brief exciting moments make the grueling and unexciting moments all worthwhile.
The journey towards any long-term goal is mostly long and arduous….. sometimes it’s tough, sometimes brutal but sometimes absolutely freaking awesome!
Life is simply a collection of experiences.
And your job is to find ways to increase the frequency and intensity of the great moments.
It’s not incidental…… it’s not natural…… it requires your attention and your willing participation.
“Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom.” – Jim Rohn
Until next time…..
Have a great week!
I look forward to hearing from you!!
From the heart of a nurse….
Althea
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