I hiked up the hill, the new challenge was the hike downhill with fairly fatigued legs. However, don’t stay there too long to forget the next challenge. Enjoy every win, every beautiful outcome.Inspire others along the way who probably need just that pep talk to ignite their self-belief. On my way up, I met others like me who had given up, I took time to motivate them, rally them to take another step like me and soon we moved from a group of ‘I can’t do it’ to ‘I can.’.The same mind got me to rethink my decision to continue hiking up. When my mind said, I can’t, I believed it. Challenge your mind from I quit to I can, whatever that obstacle is.I breezed through the first stretch pretty fast then suddenly I felt like quitting just as I was getting closer to the top. Sticking to the process, having patience with the process, and committing to the journey is the real deal.They will sign you up, and they will rescue you, they will encourage you, because they believe you can do it. Appreciate and cherish the people in your career journey who believe in you.I look back at this hiking experience in the lens of my career journey, a few lessons come to mind. The hike down was just as trying as the hike up, but that’s a story for another day. I finally summited It was unbelievable seeing myself at the mountain peak. I still had the I can’t continue moments but I pushed myself to literally take one step, another step, and another step. The air was thinner making it tough to breath. It was the ultimate trigger point we struck a deal and I said yes. You make the call.” Suddenly, apart from being inspired to keep going, I was faced with an additional challenge, not to let him fail to experience the summit because of me. If you fail to make it, we will fail together, if you make it to the top, we will make it together. Now that I chose to come get you, I will go up with you. He said, “Sheilla, I want you to make it to the peak. He was determined to encourage me to keep going. Someone from the hiking group came to my rescue. I must say I was angry with myself for quitting and I also felt embarrassed as other hikers passed me on their way up, and others on their way down. My mind was made up to quit at this point, and my physical form backed this decision. She reminded me why she signed me up, she believed I could do it.Īt the Point of Despair, a name for the point where most hikers give up, I gave up! I sat down and accepted my fate.
She stopped, we had a brief chat, and she encouraged me to keep going. My friend caught up with me in the middle of the tough terrain. My pace slowed down and I struggled to keep going. As I started to inch up the hill, the terrain began to change, it got a bit tough.
QUITTER NEVER WINS AND WINNER NEVER QUITS FULL
I breezed through the first stretch pretty quickly, all smiles, and full of energy.
She did not accept my no, so off we went. The goal was to summit at an elevation of 12,000ft above sea level. I said no at first, a quick reaction to something unfamiliar. The story starts with my friend signing me up for the challenge. You become stronger and wiser because of them.ĭifficulty is a gauge for showing how close you are to victory.Īs you get closer to what you want, you should expect more challenges.My first hike at the Elephant Hill in Kenya was quite an experience. Get excited about opportunities, they always contain the learning lessons of life. Therefore the larger the challenge, the larger the obstacle … or the larger the opportunity! I prefer large opportunities. Personally, I prefer to intentionally control my perspective and how I think about these challenges so that my ambition spikes every time I run into a challenge.Ĭhallenges in life are either obstacles or opportunities. If we know challenges are coming, you can either be thrown off guard and get upset or you can plan for them and get excited about them … they’re coming either way. In life, there will always be unexpected challenges. Every roadblock is just one step closer to the destination. Every setback is just one step closer to the goal.
Learning to use the word “no” to fuel your tank is a major mindset shift that winners must go through in order to never quit in life.Įvery time you hear the word “no”, just remember you are one step closer to getting that “yes”.
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