Last week, I did something I never thought I’d do: I climbed a 14,000-foot Colorado mountain with six friends.

It was challenging, rewarding, exhausting, exhilarating, and symbolic on so many levels. It really was an experience of a lifetime.

We all have mountains to climb.

Some of them are difficult, some are terrifying, some are intimidating. You may be staring up at the mountain of debt, addiction, despair, relationship trouble, career stagnation — whatever it is in your life that you see before you that looks to big to take on. I promise you it’s not.

What I learned on Mount Quandary applies to all of them, and I want to share those lessons with you.

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