Post Written By Eugene Morgan
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~ Edmund Hillary
Milton Erickson once used this analogy, if a narrow wooden plank were on the ground without hesitation most of us would walk across it. But if the plank was elevated to 200 feet between two buildings and we were asked to walk across it, most of us wouldn’t. This is what we need to conquer within ourselves. This is where we can learn how to get out of our comfort zone. For us to get what we want, we have to push beyond our comfort zone. We don’t have to start big to move mountains, but we can start small because we don’t want to overwhelm ourselves. Besides, we know from our experience that to improve ourselves we must work at it until we meet our goal even when it feels uncomfortable doing it.