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EVEREST  & OUR UNKNOWN FUTURE

Standing ‘metaphorically’ where we are today. With a totally unknown future. NO idea what we are going to do next, where we will live, or what we will do for money, it would be very easy to panic.

Right now our future seems ‘impossible’. Because we can only see steps up to the end of the Hunter in 2 weeks. After that there is a cravass of uncertainly and that’s scary.

However the other day one of my best friends (who is not a climber, just a motivated individual) announced to me he was going to start training to climb Everest in 2015. Then this morning on the news I saw a motivated 13 yr old announce he was going to do the same.

I thought about how nuts it is that for thousands of years umpteen hardened, experienced and fully trained mountain men have failed or died trying, and now anyone with a will and a wallet can have a go.

So what’s changed?

The ‘impossibility’ barrier has been broken.

When Roger Banister broke the 4 min mile. Something that men had been trying and failing since records were kept. Within a few months several others had done it too.

Why couldn’t they do it before ?  Because they didn’t KNOW it could be done!

This Life Change Experiment has certainly shown us that nothing is as hard as it seems once you set your mind to it

Life has a spooky habit of bending to your will if you just step out of your box and stretch your comfort zones a little

Not seeing a horizon does not mean ‘there is no ground’.

We have found there is ALWAYS ground! It may not be exactly what you want at first or are used to, but then the idea is that you won’t be on it for long.

Because there is ALWAYS another step to take into the impossibly possible, unknown known, unfamiliarly familiar.

So thanks to all the people who remind us everyday that we are the designers, architects, builders and enforcers of our own impossibilities, and our own possibilities.