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Someday, I'm going to climb Everest.

Edmond Hillary said that in the early 1940s when he was just barely 20 years old.

Few people believed him. After all all he was a professional beekeeper.

Mountain climbing was just a hobby and no one had yet climbed the world's

highest peak although some 30 people had died trying. But Edmund Hillary, he had a huge

audacious goal and he owned it. I don't think he's alone in having a big dream. I think most of us do.

Everybody has an Everest

rattling around inside them, a grand, inspiring, impossible goal they long to

achieve. What's yours? I want to change everything that's going on right now.

I'm about to quit my job and start go back to business school and take an MBA and

I really want to beat procrastination. My biggest goal is to run a first-class online business.

Just to become more effective with my time

and plan and prioritize.

Go back to India and make another film to figure out my goals.

We all have dreams but aspirations are fragile things.

They're susceptible to doubt and fear and criticism.

They seem to thrive best in the safety of our own imagination.

When we bring them into the harsh light of public opinion,

they sometimes dry up and disappear.

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