Thursday, March 03, 2005
Persist, With a Goal In Mind
The movie 'Touching the Void' tells how British climber Joe Simpson was left for dead after he broke his leg and then fell down a crevasse on Siula Grande in Peru in 1985.
Joe survived by climbing out of the crevasse and then crawling for three days in excruciating pain.
The movie leaves you in awe of the human survival capacity and of Simpson's mental toughness.
Your takeaway: when realising the enormity of his task, Simpson set himself 20 minute goals - just to reach the next rock.
You can too. Any task - however impossible it might at first seem - can be achieved once you break it down into smaller steps, keep your eye on the outcome and persist, persist, persist.
Joe survived by climbing out of the crevasse and then crawling for three days in excruciating pain.
The movie leaves you in awe of the human survival capacity and of Simpson's mental toughness.
Your takeaway: when realising the enormity of his task, Simpson set himself 20 minute goals - just to reach the next rock.
You can too. Any task - however impossible it might at first seem - can be achieved once you break it down into smaller steps, keep your eye on the outcome and persist, persist, persist.
