You can't do it without the support of your friends.
At one point during the climb, I was furthest ahead among my group, and I was impatient to keep going. I imagined myself reaching the summit. And then a question struck me. Why am I doing this in the first place? I organised the trip as a gathering of friends. We were going to conquer the peak together. Had I only wanted to reach the summit, I could have planned a solo trip any time. I rejoined my group, and we had a great time talking rubbish (when we had the breath for it), bitching about whose idea it was to climb a bloody mountain (it was mine), and supporting one another in reaching the top. This was what the climb was about.
In business, we are sometimes so obsessed with one particular goal that we lose sight of our original why. We lose sight of what are most important to us. It is important to pause, think, realign, then resume with vigour.
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