Challenging | Walter's Wiggles

There are all sorts of challenges in life - physical, emotional, project, interactive - but really it comes down to how we view these challenges. By view, I mean think about them - the name we give them, the context we think they exist in, how our feelings about our past and our future attach themselves to the current issue at hand.My significant other retitled homework assignments as "learning opportunities". Sounds a lot more inviting now, doesn't it?After my last post, I've kept up working with Inquiry and it's helping. A lot. I don't have the energy to go into it now, but I can say it's allowed me to take a leap professionally, however small, that I didn't want to take. Or, thought I didn't want to take.If you've ever hiked Zion's Angels Landing hike you'd know that the thrill of the view, the summit, is so worth the fear of falling over the edge at any moment... but what I want to write about right here is Walter's Wiggles.Walter's Wiggles is a series of 21-switchbacks that make your thighs explode. This is also the last section of the trail before the open landing of Scout Lookout and the beginning of the Angels Landing trail. Of course, the goal is to ascend Angels Landing and have a wide-reaching, stunning view of the canyon. Which I did. But that's for another post.Because tomorrow I am facing a symbolic Walter's Wiggles in my own tiny career path. No, it's not the tricky summit or the steady climb of the path, but a quick bunch of hoops to jump through on my way to bigger, grander things.So, it'll be OK if I don't make it past this juncture. Climbing the Wiggles and making it to the open space of Scout Lookout probably could have been enough. I've learned it's important to celebrate the milestones. To climb the ladder one rung at a time. And while I hope this trail leads to another more challenging route, I am just happy I'm moving, putting one foot in front of the other, and not feeling that sticky stagnant depression.Life has its plans for me and I'm willing to see them unfold.