On mountains, purpose and personal renewal!

"So you scramble and sweat and climb to reach what you thought was the goal. When you get to the top you stand up and look around and chances are you feel a little empty. Maybe more than a little empty.

You wonder whether you climbed the wrong mountain.

But life isn't a mountain that has a summit, Nor is it -- as some suppose -- a riddle that has an answer. Nor a game that has a final score.

Life is an endless unfolding, and if we wish it to be, an endless process of self-discovery, an endless and unpredictable dialogue between our own potentialities and the life situations in which we find ourselves. By potentialities I mean not just intellectual gifts but the full range of one's capacities for learning, sensing, wondering, understanding, loving and aspiring.

Perhaps you imagine that by age 35 or 45 or even 33 you have explored those potentialities pretty fully. Don't kid yourself!

The thing you have to understand is that the capacities you actually develop to the full come out as the result of an interplay between you and life's challenges --and the challenges keep changing. Life pulls things out of you.

There's something I know about you that you may or may not know about yourself. You have within you more resources of energy than have ever been tapped, more talent than has ever been exploited, more strength than has ever been tested, more to give than you have ever given."

John W. Gardner
Excerpt from the speech “Personal Renewal”, delivered to McKinsey & Company, Phoenix, November 10, 1990

👉 So select the mountains you choose to climb in Life wisely😊

And the best way of doing that is to consciously create inspiring visions that are rooted in your unique purpose.

Know your why and you begin to fly. 🆙

You don’t even have to fully reach that vision. Visions come and go anyway.

But they set the course for a journey on which the experiences you are going to have are the ones that you are meant to have and are exactly right for you.

They bring you to yourself and your unique potential for meaning, happiness, impact and success.🙌

And you can do that anytime!✅