It is here, it is time, for FINAL BLOG POST!

This has been a journey and a half! I feel as though progress was made. Do I believe I am where I wanted to be? no, not really. Am I super hard on myself about every performance based skill I do? yes, absolutely. No matter the outcome of this inquiry project I was never going to be satisfied with the result. But that is okay, everyone has things they want to work on. All that matters is that i kept trying and did the best I possibly could.

This final session of climb my focus was on my mindset. The goal was go into each climb with confidence knowing that I can do hard things. Additionally, I went into this session with a reminder to be easy on myself and be okay with the idea of not be able to finish/complete a climb. And I am here to report back and say, i felt totally better. Previously, I didn’t have these mindset goals and for the entirety of the climb I would be thinking about how I couldn’t do or how I wasn’t good enough. During this session these thoughts were at a minimum. I am not going to lie and say they weren’t there because that is not true. The difference with this session is that I could hear these thoughts, and then put them to rest with the reminders I had set at the beginning of the session.

Below is a vlog-ish style video (or an attempt of one) of this climbing session. I unfortunately ran out of storage in the middle of the session, but I made sure to include the good parts ;).

I want to thank all that have been following along, and my climbing buddies for the belay! Maybe one day we can all master the art of falling together…maybe.