Climbers on Everest ascend to higher camps then descend the same day to recover, a practice called acclimatization. Lori Harder applies this to life: when you hit a wall in business or relationships, step back to your base camp to rest and reflect before trying again. The break makes the next push easier.
You climb mountains a couple of times when they're big because you have to get your lungs ready. Like, I remember on Everest, we climbed to Camp 1. It took us 10 hours to get there. You felt like garbage when you were there because there was no oxygen. You had a drink of hot tea, and then you went all the way back down to base camp the same day.
I had no idea that you climb back down to get acclimated. This is such an example of how life works.
If you're running into struggles with your business or your relationship or your, like, climbing pursuit, take a break wherever you are. Head back to the boardroom, to the kitchen, to base camp. Give yourself a few days to acclimate. Take in all the things that you learned so that when you go climb the mountain again, it's actually easier to get higher.
