Geraldine Mair - Choose to Climb--Reaching Your Personal Summit: A Reference Manual For Lifes Challenges With 100 Inspirational Passages Of Clarity, Strategy And Direction

This book is dedicated to the two people who hold my heart and that have come into my life and given me unconditional love ever since.

My husband of 28 years Derek, my rock, my best friend and the love of my life, whose constant encouragement, help and belief in me pushed me through doubt to incredible heights.

His insight, inspiration, learnings and drive have been the catalyst that has created the foundation to help me reach my true potential and bring this book to life.

To our son Christopher whose very spirit, compassion and love for all living things, has made us realise everyday how blessed we truly are to have been given such a reward in our lives and who continues to make us incredibly proud, through all his endeavours.

My greatest gift by far has been the privilege of being his mum every single day of his life and for that I have immense gratitude.

We are incredibly proud of the beautiful, loving young man he has become and to whom we wish many adventures in his lifes journey and to always remember to help those he meets along the way.

You have our whole heart. You always have.

Love Mum and Dad

This books title came about from a story that my husband shared with me over seven years ago. After training to be a business coach, Derek was inspired to write a blog that was influenced by a business and financial mentor, the subject matter was on following your passion despite the risks.

In Switzerland there is a range of Alpine mountains and the sixth largest is the Breithorn. Many have succeeded in reaching its summit, however, a good number have lost their life on this and neighbouring peaks, in the pursuit of this aim. The blog is centred on climbing this mountain, and referenced as a metaphor to scale your challenges in life.

At the foot of the mountain is a village called Zermatt, and there in a small graveyard where some of the souls who failed to reach the summit have been laid to rest? This is not a place of sorrow or defeat but one of quiet confidence and power. One headstone of a young male climber only 17 years of age captures this energy best and reads

I Chose to Climb.

When I heard this I said to my husband it would be a great name for a book as you can choose to climb in all areas of your life. It was only a passing comment back then, however, when I decided to write this book that story came back into my mind and due to the content, I knew then it could have no other name. I give thanks for all those who dedicated their lives in the pursuit of their dreams and especially to the young man whose sacrifice has become his legacy and the catalyst for the title of this manuscript.

I hope that many others who read this story will develop the courage to ascend their own mountain, instead of ambling at the foot of the hills where no progress can ever be made, so regardless of the outcome or what lies ahead in the pursuit of individual excellence make this the beginning of your new story and Choose To Climb

View the Blog and other learning materials on www.choosetoclimb.com

by Derek Mair

The passages in this book of life written by my beautiful wife and I mean beautiful in every sense of the word, will allow you to manifest positive changes whenever you are faced with a challenge. Each passage represents a journey of enlightenment and self-discovery, reflecting events that you can each relate to, and for some may be a mirror of where your reality exists today.

As a transformational coach, I have helped hundreds of business owners, leaders and people within many careers realise their potential and push beyond the boundaries of what they believed was possible to achieve in their lives. My organisation has coached many teenagers and adults through confidence and emotional intelligence workshops and I am convinced this book speaks about so many situational events in life that it will become a constant companion to many.

The passages, quotes, affirmations and strategies may allow you to look at your current reality from a different perspective and let you tap into the greatest power at your disposal as human beings; your mind, and through it your ability to CHOOSE and create your destiny.

The fact is that most of you have been raised to accept an ordinary existence. I am not knocking ordinary, I just think that extraordinary is so much better. Perhaps its not in the search that you find what you have been looking for, its been inside you all this time; youve just been living with an ordinary consciousness and blind to it.

So how do you get to extraordinary? As Gandhi intimates in his famous quote You must Be the change that you wish to see in the World.

Your reality is made up of collective beliefs, determined predominately by emotional perceptions or learned habits through all your lifes experiences and events thus far. Your subconscious does not create perceptions but accepts as true those that the conscious mind feels to be true and your reality is consequently formed. Therefore, through your power to question your perception, when you imagine and feel you as a better you it gives the freedom to create a new extraordinary reality. This is the creation process.

To best apply the passages in this book you must be willing to dream big, and dare to believe that you can overcome the specific effects in your life that are holding you back. Start your journey of self-discovery as Geraldine and I did many years ago, learning to let go of all those limiting beliefs that held us back by developing an extraordinary consciousness. We gracefully accept that we will always be a work in progress, yet happily fulfilled because we choose to climb. Many summits reached many more to come.

Understand everything that now exists was once imagined, therefore imagine often, focusing on how you will feel when you have achieved your goal or dream. Use the heartfelt passages within to bring you back to the experience, joy and gratitude of the present moment, otherwise life will just pass you by. Remember its not about the destination, its about the person you become through living the journey and experiencing it to the full, which of course you can only ever do with intention, and in the moment. After all, this thing you call TIME is simply a figment of your imagination projected into what you call the future, and a fragmented internal memory recollection system for what you experienced in previous present moments, which you call the past. You are only ever alive and conscious in the present moment... So, get busy living.

Embrace the journey and choose to climb because there is no finish line. Take actions on the strategies within this book to reach an extraordinary consciousness, and a life of fulfilment.

The more you strive for self-actualisation the more you will miss it... The more you learn to be a better you so that you can give more or be of better service to others; your team, customers, community, family and friends, or to a passionate cause, the more you will actualise yourself.

Derek Mair

Many people I have met in life and through my work have challenges and issues as we all do, through engaging with each of them at a personal level they have in their entirety became the inspiration that drove me to put pen to paper and write this book, I will be forever grateful to them all.

My wish for you is that you will visit it often, daily for inspiration and encouragement as you enter your day, or now and again when you feel challenged by life or are struggling and unable to find an answer. Inside the pages of this book lies as array of topics designed to help you with every test you may come across in life and how to conquer them.