In this video, Matthew shares a personal experience of climbing the 700-step Pion de Guatapé rock in Colombia. He describes the physical challenge, his nervousness, and the awe of the massive structure. Using the climb as a metaphor, he explains how people often look up at the remaining distance in their personal or professional goals, which can be discouraging. He emphasizes the importance of focusing on the next immediate step rather than the whole journey, noting that this mindset helped him overcome fear of falling. Matthew encourages viewers to adopt a "baby steps" approach, follow his weekly videos, and take one actionable step each day to improve their lives. The video ends with a motivational note, expressing gratitude and love for his audience.
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Hey, guys. So it's Matthew. I am Here on Pion de Guatapé, we decided to make a little video for you. I'm going to be honest, I'm nervous right now because we're really high. There were more than 700 steps to get where we are right now. We're in Colombia, by the way, for those of you that don't know. We decided we wanted to make a video at the top, didn't we? But we didn't exactly know what about. And then I thought, you know what? I'll take you through the journey of how we got here. Because as we were driving up to this giant rock, which is unbelievable. I mean, the closer you get, the more you realize the scale of it. And I feel like we're all approaching whatever mountain we're trying to climb, whether it's in our career or whether it's with certain friends or relationships, we all have something we're trying to do that's difficult to do. And when you get closer, you realize, oh, man, this is going to be a lot of work. There's a lot that I have to do here. When I got to the bottom of this mountain, I started climbing these steps. By the way, this is the craziest video we've ever done. Can we just get a shot, like just look around this a little bit, because this is hilarious. This is like a hell of an audience. So I'm climbing the first few steps and I stopped, didn't I Jameson, right? After the, it was like the 30th or 40th step and I said, I'm slightly freaking out here. Matthew, can you say, I am scared? and you're on this little concrete staircase that is pretty terrifying and you feel like it could crumble at any moment. A mild tremor. But all these little kids were running up, which didn't help my ego. And as I was getting higher, it suddenly said, like, the 200th step. And I was like, wow, there's 200 already. So I just kept looking forward, just another step, another step, another step. Before I knew it, it was 400 steps. We're now here, which is over 700 steps. and it's the most incredible view. And I feel like one of the things that stops us ever getting to the top is that we look up when we're only halfway up the mountain and we see how much more of the mountain there is to go. And when we're looking up and we see that we get disheartened and we stop. Sometimes we forget, by the way, to look down and see how far we've come. That'll also remind you. You suddenly look down, you go, oh, my God, I'm high. You know, I got altitude somewhere along the way. But most importantly, we just need to keep looking ahead. What's the next step? What's the next step? What's the next? that's what's going to allow you to get from step 300 to step 400 to step 700 is just looking at the step in front of you instead of visualizing it as I have another 500 steps to go. For those of you that want to just take the next step in life in general, keep following these blogs, keep following these Sunday videos, and I'll make sure that I keep bringing you baby steps that can help you in your life and do one thing today that's going to improve it, even if it's just the step in front of you. So that's it. I appreciate you guys. I love you all. I'll see you next week. By the way, as a little addendum to this video, just shooting that video and shifting my focus to the content of what this video would be took away my fear of dying from falling off the edge. So, motivation.
