How do I motivate myself through so many years of arduous training and during the hardest time of my climbs? It is a question I get often. It’s the same question I pondered again and again on mountain tops and in my everyday life. The answer is simple. It’s what we are all looking for everywhere every […]
I went to my coach David Memont (you can read the original post here) hoping for a magic training program that would make me strong and fast enough to climb Everest climb. One month later, I complained that my body composition didn’t change much (I was still too fat) despite my training “hard”. I thought that […]
Have you noticed, all top athletes in the world have a coach? You may even wonder why. What does a coach provide that athletes need to succeed? Let me show you. Here’s how my coach helped me train for Mount Everest. October 2009, with less than six months until my Everest expedition, the last objective […]
Can you believe today marks 100 days to go to finish 2020 strong? Remember your vision you had for your dream life?
This famous quote from Nietzsche is the absolute foundation if you want to be successful in any hard endeavoring. To avoid making it an abstract philosophical discussion, let me share with you the “how” one has to bear on Mount Everest, the “how” that caused one-third climbers to quit before the summit push … not […]
The Khumbu Valley while I was hiking towards Everest Base Camp. Before I dive into the lessons I learned from Everest, first of all, how did the whole thing start? The credit goes to the documentary movie “Touching the Void”. It was my first winter in Boston. As a fresh MBA graduate, I was working […]
In 2004, inspired by the movie “Touching the Void”, I had this daydream of climbing Mount Everest. Yet, growing up a book nerd in Beijing, I never expected I would really climb this mountain one day. Six years later, when I finally started hiking towards Everest Base Camp, I was considered, by almost everyone on […]
As part of the “Nature of Leadership” retreat I helped run last week, everyone painted an oil painting. For most, it was their first one ever and it was clear that this experience deeply impacted each person and the team on many levels. First, though oil painting is not as “adventurous” as mountain climbing, our […]
When you are building a new business, or want to become the best in the world, you know you are in for an adventure. Exciting, right? When I was skiing toward the south pole, a journey that very few people have taken, I learned, the biggest challenge in an adventure often is not exciting, or […]
Have you always wanted to make some big changes in your life, but were held back by fear? Be it moving to a new place, changing career track, or starting a new business. Even you know that’s what your heart calls for, but you just couldn’t muster the courage to take the leap of faith? […]
