Preventing a Snowball

I’d like 2016 to be the year that I find myself heading back into the wild on a regular basis. Whether it’s a hike or a Jeep trip, being out in nature is on the top of my list.

A lot of us, including myself, tends to get caught up in our day to day. Sometimes we let something relatively minor snowball into something completely bigger than it actually is. It might be a deadline at work, it could be an argument you had with a family member; it’s usually something that won’t have any bearing on your life after a couple weeks out. Just a blip on the radar.

I’ve come to realize that preventing that snowball is figuring out what the constants are in your life. What are those things that you always refer back to when you try to calm your nerves. Everyone has constants even if they haven’t realized it.

One of my constants is the desert. I can go out year after year, decade after decade, and it remains relatively unchanged. It’s a place that that will always be as it was when I first found it. No matter the snowball, it will always be there waiting to bring me back down to reality.

To ground me in what really matters.

So when you’re about to snowball, take a moment to reflect on the constants in your life.

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