What's Your Everest?
A recent conversation about stretch goals got me thinking about the new year and what’s ahead in 2022. It’s been some time since I wrote down my goals, let along some big ones – the kind you look at and feel uncomfortable because you think “well that would be nice, but is not realistic.” Here’s a little secret – stretch goals, the kind that give us pause, should feel that way. Because "if your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough." Four years ago, in 2017, I attended a goal setting event at Mission Fitness with a group of about 20 members. We were asked to write down a stretch goal – one that felt within the realm of possibility, but also made us feel uncomfortable. This was done intentionally to get us thinking about self-imposed boundaries and reaching beyond our comfort zone. Sometimes it takes a friend to push us past the limits of what we think is achievable – and that is what this exercise was designed to do. At the event, I wrote down a goal to climb M