Ascension is almost always more intriguing and more fascinating than the look at the top. But let me tell you a little secret: there’s never a real top to look down from.

Now you’re probably wondering…”huh, if there’s no real top to climb to, then why climb at all?”

Because climbing is an experience in itself, and somewhere along the way you’re reaching so-called checkpoints that reveal a great deal about you, reinforcing who you are and what you are capable of. The lack of evolving, feeling the need to “climb” at all will make you miss these checkpoints.

Now, I’m not talking about career per-se. Nor am I talking about building that epic family life that’s been color painted by years and years of magazine marketing, telling you to have the biggest house with the most fancy kitchen equipment and cook the most extravagant meals for your large-numbered family.

No.

I’m talking about that inner need to surpass yourself, to climb paths of social, economical and emotional nature, to emerge everything and create the life you almost certainly have dreamed about when you were younger, walking all alone, biking, reading, studying.

Everyone of us has a vision, sometimes blurrier other times more clear, about who we want to become, what we want to accomplish, what type of feedback we expect from the outer world, to validate our lives, telling us that we have “succeeded” in living our greatest potential.

With no exception, we all think about it and have projected future variations on how that can be accomplished.

And what is of the greatest urgency is that we do not forget the dreams, the projections, that we remember the exact frame of mind we had when we were building those. Because keeping the mindset intact and unaltered will guarantee that the climb is enjoyable, that we keep present in the challenge, that we are aware of the checkpoints, the constant feedback.

The only way we start forgetting about the climb is when we alter the mindset, the dream, the vision. When we let others tell us, inflict on us or persuade us what our climb should look like.

I guess that’s my way of saying of

stand your ground!