Are you serious? Another fence?

Colleagues,
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​MVP: Overcoming barriers to change can be more dangerous than one would think.

I wrote on Monday about the plethora of fences along the PW.

Another contrivance for crossing them was the step-style, seen below.

It looks like a simple thing to climb up and down a little ladder but there are two variables that can make it a challenge:

1. We are carrying packs, which dramatically shift our center of gravity
2. Stinging nettles are apparently fond of ladders

It became a running joke that the first person over the ladder would call back “Mind the nettles!”

They weren’t always there, but they seemed to have an uncanny knack for being more plentiful the higher our fatigue level.

We learned to be vigilant and anticipate that there would be complications to navigating these fences.

Just like navigating change.

Overcoming a barrier may not be as simple as it appears and moving cautiously may save you hours of burning discomfort.

Today’s intention: Look around. Do you see any nettles?

Cheers!

Frederick