We are still at the beginning of the year, and now it’s the time for planning the upcoming adventure year. And the most important thing is not the big adventures, it’s the once that will be done.

We have all been there. A slight feeling of anxiety mixed with anticipation, hesitation and slight stress. The first step is the hardest, but when you have overcome the first obstacle the feeling of  success and self confidence will be there. I was having a participant in one of my groups who never been at high altitude. two days before we was going for the adventure, his wife call me. She let me know that her husband who was coming on the tour was afraid of heights. Two days before! I got this message…But we started in a calm and measured pace. We built on the difficulties step by step, and he was soon up to 3600m. I asked him if he felt anything special? The answer was straight and honest -I feel like a alpinist. Courage in the mountains we imagine someone who is fearless, strong and confident, someone who just ”drives”. In reality, courage often looks like this: Hesitation. Coffee drunk a little too quickly. A backpack repacked three times. A voice that says, “What if I can’t do it?” Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is tying your boots anyway.

Most people who come to the mountains are not looking for achievement. They are not looking for altitude, statistics or any kind of record. They are looking for: – a break – a calm breath – proof that they still dare – a place where their thoughts can be quiet – a feeling of: “I can do more than I think.”

And often that journey begins long before the first step. It begins at home at the kitchen table. With doubt…

While thinking of your next journey – adventure, I can tell you I had a tremendous weekend in the Swedish archipelago, in Oxelösund. 

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So what will be your challenges? Maybe a growth mindset…

See ya soon…