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On the Monday after Malakoff weekend, I decided to ease back into the gym – the climbing one, of course. Since PL was on leave for two weeks (she was in between jobs), she joined C and I at Camp5.

Still feeling a little weary from the weekend, I wasn’t inclined to push too hard. We did some top ropes and quickly migrated to the boulder cave. My pink route was as elusive as ever. I guess my left hamstring still needed more time for recovery.

We tried a few other routes that we had never attempted before. It wasn’t a difficult route, but it required me to make a dynamic move halfway up. Being the little chicken that I was, I kept thinking about how far I was going to fall that I would make the move and turn my head towards the mats even before I had touched the next hold. Naturally, I tumbled down without ever managing to secure the next hold.

On my third and last attempt, I decided to keep my eyes glued to the hold regardless of whether I stuck it or not. Surprise, surprise, I stuck.

Lesson: keep your eyes focused on where you want to go and that’s where you’ll go. If you look at where you don’t want to go, that’s also where you’ll end up.

Anthony Robbins taught me that.

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