"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." Franklin Roosevelt

so lately I have been working on setting and get this achieving goals.... I know shocker right.  One of the biggest things for me lately is over coming fears. Which of course I feel like lots of people work on but one of my fears is not being good at something.  In fact most of the time I don't like doing stuff unless I know that I am going to own it.  Well on Saturday me and my roommate Kimmy went skiing up at Sundance.  It was the most perfect day, perfect snow, perfect sunshiny (I even got a little sunburned), and perfect company (love kimmy <3) any way both of us are about the same level when it comes to skiing, you know the one where blue squares are too easy but black diamonds make you feel like you might die... Well we decided that we needed to challenge ourselves so we rode up to bishops bowl..... and I looked down the mountain and seriously reconsidered the intelligence of skiing I mean it is just strapping two boards to my feet and racing down the side of a mountain.  But I did it and

this is the huge mountain that me and kimmy skied down! 

it was the hardest thing I've done in my skiing career in a long long time.  Once I got to the lift I was pretty sure I never wanted to do that again, in fact I was pretty sure I would be happy for the rest of my life going down the mountain in a relatively swift manner with out falling.  But then I was thinking about it and how do we ever get better at anything with out falling down a few times? Life isn't about getting everything perfect the first time, life is about struggling to get it right and being creative and figuring out how to get down life's "mountains." I loved once I got down the mountain that I could look up and see this huge thing that i conquered.  I think that is how life is I think that is a huge contributed to our happiness in conquering the things that seem like they are going to kill us haha.  Maybe its conquering the doldrums of everyday life, or a family problem, or insecurities getting over those problems is happiness.