It’s a new year and I am reminded of a line from Sex and the City: “You don’t want to peak in high school.” Life and career are so much more interesting and satisfying when you constantly strive for your next peak. While most of your friends, family and coworkers have moved far past high school, you probably know someone who is still living, or constantly reliving, a “glory day” of scoring a winning point in a sports event, nailing a promotion or getting the biggest law firm in the city as a client for her CLNC® business.
I’ve hit a few personal and professional peaks of my own: appearing on National Public Radio, Fox & Friends, becoming a New York Times bestselling author and staying happily married for 21 years. But I don’t want to be buried with any of those peaks as my crowning lifetime achievement. Why? Because I don’t want to peak – ever!
Some days we peak higher than others, and that can be okay. For example, I recently hiked in the Rincon mountains outside of Tucson, Arizona. It was a beautiful fall morning and our trail steadily climbed up and down until we reached the top of one mountain where we had a wonderful picnic lunch. There were higher and lower peaks around us, but the peak where we had lunch was a sunny, warm spot with a view of the Mission San Xavier del Bac in the distance as a bonus. That peak was perfect for that day, even though I’ve hiked more challenging trails.
People who never stop peaking are happier because they have something to look forward to besides the distant memory of past peaks, or even worse, high school.
Let’s all keep peaking in 2012! Happy New Year!
Success Is Inside!
P.S.Comment and share your favorite “peak” so far or what you want your next “peak” to be.
I don’t ever want to peak either! I guess that’s why I hunger to learn. My high points have been as varied as the, ‘fourteeners’ in Colorado. I have found mountain tops in music, relationships, athletics, my walk with Christ, parenting, and nursing. Most recently I have peaked by starting my very own business as a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant. And because you have perfected your course, I have gotten off to a good start. Vickie, by the end of this month (my third) I will have covered my training expenses! But the real peaks have come when I have heard, ‘thank you’ for my work product. I still have lots of climbing to do, but I wouldn’t want it any other way.
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I don’t ever want to peak either! I guess that’s why I hunger to learn. My high points have been as varied as the, ‘fourteeners’ in Colorado. I have found mountain tops in music, relationships, athletics, my walk with Christ, parenting, and nursing. Most recently I have peaked by starting my very own business as a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant. And because you have perfected your course, I have gotten off to a good start. Vickie, by the end of this month (my third) I will have covered my training expenses! But the real peaks have come when I have heard, ‘thank you’ for my work product. I still have lots of climbing to do, but I wouldn’t want it any other way.