Finding your pace

Mountain‑Top Moments: Finding Your Own Pace

One of the quiet truths a mountain teaches you is this: finding your own pace is everything. Ouch! Let me honest, its not always the pace we want to assume but maybe the pace we need to assume for a particular season.

I am not trying to make excuses but we all go through significant life challenges and some of them affect us deeply and yes affect our pace.

I can relate with this thinking back to losing my father - it was an event that marked me and affected my pace on the journey because I intentional made time to grieve. That will have to be another write up all together but for this one I am simply acknowledging that there are some life events that impact your pace. You will have to pay attention and make the necessary adjustments to your body - those that support you, adjustments to your frame - how you position yourself to deliver tasks with kindness and adjustments to your breathing - how you make time for restoration, deep reflection and self care. Every life journey will have times when you push and there will also be times when you ease off to restore yourself. Its a rhythm that is life itself.

On a hike especially when climbing a mountain you must discover the rhythm that works for your body, your frame, your breath. And once you find it, you honour it. You stay with it. That’s what keeps you going.

It’s so easy to look left and right, comparing your pace with others wondering if you should be faster, slower, stronger, lighter. But the best thing you can do is appreciate your own unique attributes and fashion your steps to match them. Settle into a flow that aligns with who you are, and stay with it.

Because the last thing you want on any journey is burnout.

Yet burnout has become a growing culture in our generation. We often run at someone else’s pace simply because we saw what belonged to them and assumed it should belong to us too. A difficult truth, but a necessary one.

Here’s the reminder the mountain whispered:

When you reach the summit, whenever your unique pace allows you to, that moment is yours. Completely yours. And no one can take it away.

So keep going.

Keep moving at your pace.

Your mountain‑top moment will meet you there.