The Value of Taking Massive Action to Completion

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Are you taking “massive action to completion”?

if you have a lot of projects going on at once, and are not completing most of them, then you are probably not …

Well, I admit it, I too have lots of projects going at once and way too many which are never going to be completed because I loose interest and move on to the next interesting thing. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

Well, if that describes your situation, you need to move toward getting the percentage of completed projects up, because each project you fail to finish, will feel like a failure and “program you” for more failures of your future projects. On the contrary when you complete a project and get it out there, it will be a succes in your mind and the feeling is addictive and will “grease the slide” for your next projects to be easier to complete as well.

One project I recently completed was a hike to the summit of Angels Landing, a 1,500 feet mountain in Zion National Park in Utah. I have been working for several years on conquering my fear of heights by visiting high-up places in cities like Paris and Barcelona, and this was the ultimate test.

Could I really hike to the top of a small mountain via narrow trails and rock faces, where often the only thing separating me from a fall to my death was pulling myself along a chain or balancing over a narrow path of rocks?

Well, after hiking most of the other parts of Zion National Park with my friend Paul Klein and thinking about it a good long time, I decided to go for it. It was getting a bit late in the afternoon and everybody else in the party was going “really?” “are you sure?”, but my decision was firm.

So to make a longer story short, I took massive action to completion and hiked all the way up. It was the biggest challenge I have faced in my life. It was really hard physically (I wasn’t in too great a shape) and mentally, but I managed to pull through it and get there.

For more details and pictures, pleased see my blog post titled “I Cheated Death at Zion National Park“.