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Look at each of these every day mountains... 1. A family, whose children leave home. Their roles will change drastically. They must reinvent themselves. 2. A child who leaves the family home to work or to go to university. They will need to reinvent themselves. 3. A man, whose company downsizes and is made redundant as a result of this. He must reinvent himself. 4. The individual in a couple, who have been together for 40 years when one of them dies. They will have to reinvent themselves. 5. Families who are torn apart through wars. They have to reinvent themselves. 6. Anyone who goes to work in a country in which they were not born. They must reinvent themselves. 7. New parents, they must reinvent themselves. 8. People who experience physical changes as the result of illness or accident. musts reinvent themselves. These mountains are real and are happening everyday. The ability to climb them successfully is made possible by the ongoing mental and physical work that we do. The strength of the body and of the mind, will give each one of these people you and I, the ability to climb your mountains with ultimate success. 40
sevent y 2minutes  november 2015 
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When I volunteered to climb Mount Afadja in Ghana, known locally as Afadjato, in July 2015, I did so confident that my physical and mental well being would allow me to complete the climb. I did not expect it to be easy but I was confident that I would complete successfully. The walk up was hard. It would seem that nature had positioned the trees strategically and grabbing onto these whilst not looking at the fall below, were a crucial part of reaching the top. We began as a group and one member of the group realized early on that he was not physically able to go on. He decided to stop, wait or return to the bottom of the mountain. There was a moment and a pause. We had started together and we all wanted to reach the top. However, the bottom line was that as well as being a part of the collective, we all had our own vision of success that needed to be completed. Navigating the rocks that were slippery from the recent rain was sometimes hard. At the arrival of the stop points, the childlike adventurer that continues to be alive in me, was happily climbing, grabbing onto trees and laughing at the success of each stage. As I approached a patch of crazy large ants, I took a deep breath and ran up past them! None of them got me!!! As a group, we tried to remember work songs that would have motivated us but none of us knew the same songs.