Life is like a mountain, and most people are made to believe that the pinnacle of success is a forty year campaign on a beaten trail to retirement. But I know, that I don’t want to really see what is on the other side of that mountain when I’m sixty-five years old… Or wonder why I have to wait to play golf, travel, and do the fun things in life again.

Philosophical Engineering

So what mountain are you climbing in life? For me, I was overwhelmed when I was told I needed to work hard and do the “same shit, different day” at a secure and stable position at a company for the next forty years.

When my mentor Dan told me that there was another mountain to climb in life and work towards, one that clarified my needs in life in greater detail, I didn’t believe him at first. I couldn’t help but think that the nine to five grind was what everyone worked hard at in life. Unless of course you were one of the fortunate drug dealers who could make lots of money and never had to work a day in your life. But when I saw others hiking this mountain Dan began to talk about, and the hikers were not drug dealers, I got curious. Curious as to how one could actually hike Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.