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Think about yourself for a minute, have you ever climbed a mountain? Be it a real mountain or a challenge in your life that you considered a mountain that was unmovable.

Think about a mountain for a minute, it is a large object in our life that we have the choice of climbing, going around, or just having it stop us in our tracks.

I look at a mountain as a challenge that confronts us from time to ime in our lives. Some of us decide to go around the mountain and let the challenge sit there until we can't go around any more. Others take on the mountain face first, climb the mountain and take every challenge that is thrown their way. Finally, there those of us who just stop and shut down when we are hit with the big challenges in our lives.

Why is this? Why do each of us treat this mountain so different? We are all given the ability to challenge the mountain the same way, but we all react so different. Why am I bringing all this up? Well, as I was flipping through the channels looking for some good television on Sunday night, which for the record is almost impossible to find, and someone said a phrase that just hit me and I realized I was also this person.

What this person said or at least close to it was that when we are younger if someone says climb that mountain we don't ask why, we just climb it, get to the top, and celebrate. But as we age something happens, we change, and if someone asks us to climb a mountain we ask, well what's on the other side? What happened to our spirit? Why do we care what is on the other side? We are given an opportunity.

I'm starting to think I should have joined real estate when I was 18, when I had that fire, that if someone told me climb that mountain I would have done it without asking why. Now, I hire coaches and mentors to tell me how they did it and when they tell me to climb that mountain I hesitate and ask why, what is on the other side?

Life should be about the challenge, not the reward and caring what is on the other side. This is the attitude that stops us in our tracks when a challenge comes along. You see that if we don't have someone to answer the question of who, or what is on the other side, we hesitate and let the mountain dominate us.

So from this moment on, I challenge each of you to look at the mountain and start to climb without question to whom, what, or why and enjoy life. Take the challenges that life gives us and remember those challenges are given to us to help us grow and become better people, be it in business or our personal lives.

Todd Clark - broker
Kastings & Associates
Phone: (503)524-9494
Fax: (503)622-8739

Todd Clark and the Friendly Home Team
Knipe Realty
Todd@IFoundYourNewHome.com
Phone: (503)524-9494
Fax: (503)746-9573

 

 

 

 

 I am a licensed Realtor who specializes in Washington County, Oregon and also work in both Clackamas and Multnomah Counties including the cities of Aloha, Beaverton, Canby, Clackamas, Gladstone, Gresham, Happy Valley, Hillsboro, Milwaukie, Oregon City, Sherwood and Tigard. All information contained in these posts are copyrighted and cannot be used without prior written approval authorization from the author me Todd Clark. If you are looking for an outstanding agent please give me a call I would love to help you with all your real estate needs.

 

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