Mountain Paths
So this weekend, I’m finishing a handful of new articles for coaching clients to support our work together. Only to discover they’re apparently destined to be a part of an emerging book that now has a title, forthcoming website and emergent organization.
Yes, it’s book 6, starting even while making good progress on the planned 2006 release - “Dream Space.” I comfort myself with the reminder that a friend of mine usually works on 4-5 books at a time along with a full consulting travel schedule.
This will be essentially an appreciative approach to personal effectiveness. Here’s an excerpt from the introduction to Mountain Paths: An Appreciative Guide on the Journey to Discovering our Potential.
Traveling on a mountain path is always an interesting and rewarding experience. Purpose inspires us and attention organizes us.
The mountain doesnÕt care what we donÕt have, donÕt want, or canÕt do. It only supports what we do have, do want, and can do.
Whether itÕs a journey of a thousand steps, we can only take one step at a time. Whatever our desire for certainty, the mountain only reveals the steps that can be seen within a single mountain path turn. Obstacles on the path call on us to create new paths. The longer weÕre on the path, the more we learn about ourselves, the nature of paths, uncertainty, and the power of an appreciative process.
A journey on a mountain path is a simple and powerful metaphor for any journey of discovering our potential. It’s always a path that inspires us to understand and use our strengths and successes in new ways to achieve what matters to us.
