Focus On The Positive with Cindy Abbott
“Don’t worry about that mountain so high in the sky, just focus on the 10 feet in front of you.”
Image courtesy of ReachingBeyondTheClouds.com
I love the title of your blog: Focus on the Positive! The power of positive thinking is limitless – I know firsthand.
In 2007, after 14 years of experiencing the frightening symptoms of an unexplained illness, I was finally diagnosed with a serious and rare disease. That, however, did not stop me from reaching for my dreams. A few months later, at the age of 48, I took up mountain climbing with the single goal of standing on the top of the world. And at age 51, I took up sled dog racing with the single goal of completing the 1000-mile Alaskan Iditarod Sled Dog Race. I was told that these things were impossible, but I proved them wrong. I am now the only woman in the world to have both summited Mt. Everest and completed the Iditarod.
People ask me how I do these things. First, I am an adventurer (not a risk-taker) and life is for living. So I developed my 10-feet-at-a-time approach. “Don’t worry about that mountain so high in the sky, just focus on the 10 feet in front of you.” This is literally how I climbed every mountain, ran the Iditarod sled dog race, and manage my disease. I have found this approach works for every aspect of life.
You can read about it in my book Reaching Beyond the Clouds: From Undiagnosed to Climbing Mt Everest.
- Cindy Abbott