This past weekend my wife and I took our daughters on our first geocaching expedition. For those of you who don't know what geocaching is, it's like a treasure hunt using a GPS device. Many times the caches have little trinkets and toys for you to find. You can find out more at geocaching.com. For our last cache of the day, and the longest, we had to walk a ½ mile up a forest service road with a gentle incline.
Now, my daughters (12, 9, and 3 years old) regularly walk a mile around our neighborhood, half of which is on an incline, so I knew this wouldn't be a huge challenge.
Well, one of the girls decided that she just couldn't make it up the road, and was whining and hanging back, sitting down when she found a suitable rock. The rest of us would stop and try to get her to continue on. Finally, I decided we'd just keep going and she could catch up as she wished.
The road wound around the little hill we were on, so when my daughter sat down and we continued, we would eventually move out of sight of her, and her she would come, running and whining to catch up.
We reached the top and spent about 15 minutes finding the cache. Inside we found a fossil, a hematite stone, some other little trinkets, and the logbook. My whining daughter wanted to fill out the logbook, so we let her write what she wanted. Each one of the girls took something, and we replaced their choices with things we'd brought for the purpose, then we headed back to the truck.
On the way back home I asked each of the girls what they liked best about the day. The whiner said she really liked the last one. I reminded her of her behavior on the way up the hill and said that it didn't sound like she liked it.
She said that she didn't like the walk, but she really liked the end result. So I said, "Yeah, that last one was pretty cool. You realize, though, that we wouldn't have found it if we hadn't first walked up that road? Did you think what we found was worth the trip?" She said that it was.
Hopefully she internalizes the idea that for her to get what she wants there will be a price to pay. Sometimes it won't cost much, but sometimes it will.
For you to be successful in business and life, you will have obstacles to overcome. Whether or not you overcome them will determine your level of success. You'll have to step out of your comfort zone, maybe risk embarrassment. You'll have to get educated, you'll have to talk to people you don't know. You may even have to reconstruct part of your belief system, getting rid of beliefs that are no longer valid and keep you from reaching your goals.
Are you going to go up that hill and find the treasures at the top, or will you whine and cry and sit on the side of the road?
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Mark Turrieta has been training people in various industries for over 20 years. He is the founder of The Desydia Group, a network marketing organization focusing on the nutrition and travel industries. To find out more about Mark and The Desydia Group, go to
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