Have you ever seen the movie 127 Hours?
It’s an intense movie. A tough watch.
And it contains one of the most poignant messages and warnings for all of us that we need to take to heart.
If you haven’t seen the movie, it stars James Franco, who does an incredible job portraying real-life mountain climber Aron Ralston and his harrowing account of falling down a canyon in remote Utah only to have a boulder land on his arm, preventing any escape.
Ralston is stuck.
And as the intensity and enormity of the situation begins to set in, he realizes a cold, hard truth:
I never told anyone where I was going.
No one would know where to look.
No one would be coming to his rescue.
He was utterly alone because he lived his life like he never needed anyone.
We don’t need to be mountain climbers like Aron Ralston to heed this warning.
The Biggest Struggle of Them All
There is a danger in going at anything completely alone. We need to tell people where we are going and where we have been. And the remedy is something simple, yet extremely difficult: vulnerability.
We’re all struggling. Yet, we’re all struggling to make it look like we’re not struggling. (click to tweet that)
This is the biggest, most damaging, struggle of them all.
The walls we build to protect our image only keep people away. We try to keep our wounded pride intact, while it’s lying lifeless on the floor.
We smile for the next picture while the walls to our house crumble around us.
Me Being Vulnerable
It’s been over five years now since I left my “real job” to pursue being a full-time writer, speaker, coach, consultant…
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