SKIING METAPHOR

Suppose you go skiing.  You take a lift to the top of a hill, and you are just about to ski down the hill when a man comes along and asks where you are going.  “I’m going to the lodge at the bottom” you reply.  He says, “I can help you with that” and promptly grabs you, throws you into a helicopter, and flies you to the lodge.  You’d be upset, no?  Skiing is not just the goal of getting to the lodge, because any number of activities can accomplish that for us.  Skiing is how we are going to get there.  Yet notice that getting to the lodge is important because it allows us to do the process of skiing in a direction.  If I tried to ski uphill instead of down, it wouldn’t work.  Valuing down over up is necessary in downhill skiing.  Steven Hayes, Ph.D. describes this as: Outcome is the process through which the process can become the outcome.

Three quotes from John Wooden appear to hit on the same concept:

“A successful journey is the destination”

“The glory is in getting there”

“The journey is better than the inn”

I guess that it is up to you to figure out how all this is relevant to goals, wrestling, and you.