#175- A Walk In The Woods

<p>I recently watched this movie starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte.</p><p><strong>Have you seen it?</strong></p><p>It was very comical.</p><p>Two people who couldn&#39;t be more different, walking the same path with completely different ideas about what the journey should look like.<br><strong>SPOILER ALERT!</strong></p><p>One, a well-renowned writer. Organised. Thoughtful. A plan.</p><p>The other...</p><p><strong>A fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants kinda guy.</strong></p><p>They set out to walk the Appalachian Trail.</p><p>But they don&#39;t finish it.</p><p>And that&#39;s where it got interesting for me.</p><p>Bill sees that they didn&#39;t complete the trail (the organised guy)</p><p>Katz sees it differently (not orgainsed guy)</p><p><strong>They walked the trail.</strong></p><p>Same experience.<br>Same distance.<br>Same ending.</p><p><strong>Completely different meaning.</strong></p><p>And neither of them is necessarily wrong.</p><p>Because who decided that the only way something counts is if you finish the whole bloody thing?</p><p>Who decided what <em>finished</em> even means?</p><p>We put so many expectations around what achievement is supposed to look like.</p><p>Finish the course.<br>Reach the goal.<br>Stick to the plan.<br>Get to the end.</p><p>Otherwise somehow it doesn&#39;t count.</p><p>And our nervous system gets dragged along for the ride, constantly measuring where we are against where we think we <strong>should</strong> be.</p><p>What if we stopped?</p><p>What if you looked at what you <strong>have done</strong>, rather than constantly measuring yourself against what you haven&#39;t?</p><p>Maybe you didn&#39;t finish the trail.</p><p><strong>But you still walked the bloody trail.</strong></p><p>And maybe that&#39;s enough.</p><p>Notice what you say to yourself about the things you didn&#39;t finish.<br>&quot;I never stick to anything.&quot;<br>&quot;I should have done more.&quot;<br>That&#39;s stress language. And your body is listening.</p><p>If you want to catch yours, grab the free workbook here:<br><a href="https://mailchi.mp/33e8ad69b5d9/catch-your-stress-language">https://mailchi.mp/33e8ad69b5d9/catch-your-stress-language</a></p><p>Wendy x x<br>                   </p>