Good Morning,
One of my recent reads was a book by Chuck Norris. Yes, Walker Texas Ranger. This book called "The Secret Power Within: Zen Solutions to Real Problems" (http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780553069082?&PID=719) was a pleasure to read. Chuck Norris tied in events from his personal and professional life with lessons he learned along the way and provided this all from the view of a Zen enthusiast.
A section which really appealed to me was when Chuck Norris talked about how achieving goals was not so much a person climbing a mountain, but rather a person climbing both an internal and external mountain at the same time. What this is saying is that as we work to achieve a goal or accomplish some task there is often an internal emotional and mental challenges taking place within us at the same time.
Think of it this way, as we hike a trail, we have a physical task in progress. The harder or longer the task, the more grueling it is on our body. While we are working to achieve this goal, we have an internal struggle often going on as well. We have emotions and thoughts which flow through us. When the task gets hard, those thoughts may change from the positive, 'I think I can' to a less positive 'I'm not sure if I can do this'.
It is the working through these thoughts and emotions which make for the internal challenge while we push ourselves to achieve the outward goal.
Depending on the challenge before us, and how much emotional charge or history we have with it, the internal challenge may pose a far greater hurdle to overcome than the external one.
If you remember the movie 'Top Gun' when Maverick (Tom Cruise) was flying, after he lost his friend and co-pilot, Goose. He had the target in his sights and then gave up anyway. The internal challenge with all the weight it carried was a far greater challenge then achieving the goal of the training mission.
Here's an interesting thing with these two-in-one challenges. When we achieve our goals, we actually grow both internally and externally. We build up our mental and emotional capability as well as our skill sets and knowledge. That is, our capability to weather the emotional ups and downs of our upcoming challenges grows along with the skills to achieve those goals does.
I really enjoyed this book, and look forward to learning more from the multi-faceted Chuck Norris.
Enjoy!
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