Friday, 26 April 2013

I HAVE A MOUNTAIN TO CLIMB


Hi peeps! Its been forever. I came here to clear the cobwebs, not sure if I'm back to blogging but I stumbled on this write-up and it made a whole lot of sense...in fact it feels like my story. So please read and make sure you climb that mountain.


I tried to climb the mountain today. As I inched my way up the path, I felt out of breath and had to turn back.

I tried to climb the mountain today. But, It was so hot outside, I thought I had better stay in my nice air-conditioned house and rest up for tomorrow's attempt.

I tried to climb the mountain today. On my journey, darkness started to fall and I was full of fear, so I had to return to a safe place.

I was ready to climb the mountain today. But I had so may other things to do, so instead of climbing the mountain I took care of the much more important tasks; I washed my car, mowed the grass and watched the big game. Today the mountain will have to wait.

I was going to climb the mountain today. But as I stared at the mountain in all it's majestic beauty, I knew I had no chance of making it to the top, so I figured why even begin trying.

I had forgotten about climbing the mountain today, until an old friend came by and asked what I was up to lately. I told him about all my plans to climb that mountain someday. I went on and on about how I was going to accomplish the task.He stopped me and said, "I just got back from climbing that mountain. for the longest time I told myself I was going to try to climb it but never made any progress." "I almost let the dream of making it to the top die. I came up with every excuse of why I could not make it up the mountain, but never once did I give myself a reason why I could. One day as I stared at the mountain and pondered, I realized that if I didn't make an attempt at this dream all my dreams would eventually die." "The next morning, I started my climb. It was not easy, and at times I wanted to quit. But no matter what I faced, I placed one foot in front of the other, keeping a steady pace. When the wind tried to blow me over the edge, I kept walking. When the voices inside my head screamed, stop! I focused on my goal, never letting it out of sight. I kept moving forward. I could not quit because I knew I had come too far to stop now. Time and time again, I reassured myself that I was going to finish this journey. I struggled mightily to make it to the top, but I CLIMBED THE MOUNTAIN." "I have to be going," my friend said. "Tomorrow is a new day to accomplish more dreams. By the way what are you going to do tomorrow?"

I looked at him, with intensity and confidence in my eyes, and said, "I HAVE A MOUNTAIN TO CLIMB."

Author:  Unknown

16 comments:

  1. Story of our lives...
    May God help us as we decide to climb the 'mountain'.

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  2. Amen to ay's prayer!
    Thanks for sharing, i like the write-up.

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  3. Truly Inspiring...
    I better go start climbing!

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  4. I sure need to start climbing a lot of mountains...amen to ay's prayer.

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  5. Motivational post. I read this post and am all geared up to climb the several mountains I have before me. No more procrastination.


    Thanks for the post.

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  6. Oh Yeah! Gotta lotta mountains to climb. Smtymz I even 4get dat such mountain exist. Been postponing a particular post for almost a month....By dropping a comment here, I know I've taken a step :). May God help us to climb every challenging mountain in our lives.

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  7. Amen to the prayers dear, and do come back soon! blessings

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  8. There will always mountains standing on the way to success but one must overcome them. If the mountain is too tall find a way by all means to scale through it to your promise land and you will be glad you did.

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  9. Fear and procrastination... Fear...

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  10. We must face and conquer our challenges and be decisive about it too, otherwise they will keep staring us in the face. Thanks Dayor and may God help us all!

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  11. I love how the writer creatively illustrates how we tie ourselves up with all sorts of excuses for not going all out to achieve our goals from day to day. I also love how it ended, with that motivation from a friend. Loved this. Thanks for sharing girl.

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  12. Very inspiring.. I have a mountain to climb.

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  13. Very inspiring.. I better start climbing.

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