The need to grow, spirit

Person rock climbing
Never thought i would ever navigate the seven-story Great Cleft. To try to articulate how my spirit soared…probably impossible.

Adversity doesn’t build character, it reveals it.

As i rebound from my historic slowdown, i am moving slow, but steady. One day at a time.

Physical decline humbles my spirit.

A humble spirit always motivates me.

When my spirit grows, it fertilizes my physical resolve to move, fuel, and rest.

When my body grows, it fertilizes my spiritual resolve to dwell in peace and contentment.

Growth begets growth.

Patience begets patience.

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Praying i can run again

Daisies
This exact spot is the leading contender for my first week back to GNP. T-minus two weeks.

Been 11 months since the first retina tear repair surgery.

A few weeks after the first surgery, the retina re-tore and i had a second retina repair surgery.

And of course, months later a third eye surgery. The left-eye cataract surgery was radically accelerated by the steroid drops from the first two surgeries.

Presently trying to remain under-excited, to manage my expectations after three eye surgeries.

Had expected to be in Glacier three months last summer. The August and September eye surgeries shaved two months off of the 2023 plan.

To describe my excitement and gratitude for returning in 2024 is difficult.

It easily could sound like these things:

Off the charts.

Through the roof.

Best day ever.

Etc.

However, 2024 is just another in a long number (12, maybe 13) of consecutive Glacier Summer visits.

Business as usual it’s often called.

Contextual note: Initially, last August before the first surgery, Dr. Kumar said i wouldn’t normally need cataract surgery for 10-15 years. But after his first retina repair, he said i would need cataract surgery (left eye only) in two years. Then, after a second emergency retina repair i immediately needed cataract surgery, following (hopefully) a healthy post-second-surgery recovery.

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Team work, dream work

6-second video: 360-room view.
3-second video: Let’s go get some stuff.
2-second video: follow the map to the X.
Two people loading a van
Round one.

Team work, dream work.

Simple as that.

A team is an interdependent group with a common goal.

A dream is a vision of something not currently in your existance. Something you wish and work for.

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If 10 people start

stromatolites
A billion years old+-.

If 10 people start their own business do you know how many will still be in business a decade later?

Maybe half.

Not half as in 50%.

Half as in half a person.

Five point zero percent (5.0%).

Not quite one in ten make it.

Roughly three to five percent make it.

Ten % (10%) would equal one person, remember the math here?

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What naturally happens with your spirit?

sunrise from a jet
Today is a gift. Want to know the value of a single day, ask someone who’s counting their’s.

Only three things happen naturally in people’s spirits: beliefs development, testing, death. Everything else takes a growth mindset.

Spiritual vibrancy is easier with a growth mindset: intentionally over-focusing on peace and contentment in a way that your younger self under-focused on or ignored.

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