Mount Egmont in New Zealand, now officially known as Mount Taranaki is a 8261 feet (2518m) tall volcanic cone on the West Coast of the North Island of New Zealand. Not impossibly large but certainly a nice climb and a challenge considering approximately 65 people have died whilst climbing it, mainly due to hypothermia brought on by rapid weather changes. You may have sent it without knowing it - is was the moutain backdrop in The Last Samurai (pretending to be Mt. Fuji).
The Mountain is snow capped for a fair proportion of the year and a small amount of perpetual ice is on the summit (unless global warming gets rid of it)
Along with an Outdoor Activity Club a goal was set to climb to the top of the mountain, it wasn't expected to be to difficult to accomplish. There is a reasonable marked track up to the top with marker poles showing the correct way to go.
However the first year it was attempted the remains of a tropical hurricane were battering the west coast of New Zealand and we literally risked being blown off the mountain. A goal was made to attempt it again in the following year. A year later and still disgusting weather conditions, the mountain hated us, another weekend spent in a cabin and walking the lower forrested slopes. But with all goals the secret to success is not the length of time or difficulty achieving the goal but the number of attempts that really demonstrate ones character.
It took the third year and finally the goal of climbing the mountain was achieved.
When we set goals whether they be personal or business often we have no idea or the difficulties one will face when setting them. They start as a dream but the reality is often very difficult. What makes one successful or not comes down to DETERMINATION. Climbing Mount Taranaki should have been easy - in this case it wasn't, but the determination ensured the goal was achieved.
Many people in life have goals there believe should be easy, and normally perhaps they should, but what really proclaims what type of person we are is how we respond when a simple goal becomes difficult, do we give up the goal or simply increase the effort.
