Wellbeing Wisdom Tiny Bites - How do You Climb a Mountain

How do you typically respond when something you really want seems ridiculously difficult to attain or achieve?

For most of us, there might be a petulant moment or two before we rise to the challenge. A shining example of a person who rode the waves of social injustice against her gender and her skin color with great style, wisdom and talent was Aretha Franklin. Her musical career arc ran alongside the civil and women’s rights movements, and she was involved with both.

In 1964 she was looking at the tiny amount of money she earned from her first record label and was deciding which record label she would move to so she could benefit from her talents. In an interview with Ebony magazine, she said "It’s the rough side of the mountain that’s the easiest to climb; the smooth side doesn’t have anything for you to hang on to."

She didn’t complain about her treatment, she simply proclaimed her vision. The Queen of Soul shared a piece of her soul with us in that sentence, one that I carry with me and use when times are tough. You, too?

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