Move Any Mountain - The Shamen

What were you doing in the summer of 1991? I can’t remember either - but if you were the Scottish Band ‘The Shamen’, you were riding high at #4 in the UK chart, ‘Moving Mountains’. If are too young to remember or weren’t even born in 1991, take a listen here and you’ll get a snapshot of this really positive anthem that perfectly accompanies today’s blog.

I will not fail nor falter I shall succeed

My perception is altered I do believe…

You see, it’s been one of those weeks at Coleman Coaching –  as we’ve been ‘Moving Mountains’. Well we haven’t but a lot of our clients have. I’d like to put it all down to good coaching, leadership and pure hard work but maybe it’s down to the passage of time and the first signs of Spring finally breaking through the harsh and dark days of Winter. Of course, our message is always to succeed and not to fail and if you are ‘Moving a Mountain’ one rock at a time, it’s going to be some time before there’s any evidence of any visible change taking place.

Faith is so strong now nothing shall bar my way

Firm conviction is no fiction this is my day…

And that’s the major problem in a process where it takes time to see results. Faith is what’s needed, big time and it’s the thing that everyone has to grab hold of if they want the success they’re looking for. Holding on for dear life, pays dividends too. Lots of folk kind of ‘Juggle’ their ‘Faith’ and it’s more ‘Hope’ than ‘Belief’ in their approach and of course their resolve is always questionable, as are their results.

Well you know that any mountain is capable of moving…

I’m someone that thinks any mountain can be moved – you just have to have enough energy and expertise to make it happen. I’ve moved many in my time, dug a few tunnels and circumnavigated others. I tried climbing a few in my younger years, only to fail and find out the hard way that having a clear-cut path to success made the gradients far less ominous and my thought process about ‘Success’ change, along with my personality.

You can be what you want to be

Let your soul and your body and your mind be free…

And there’s the key. A real ‘Nugget of Success’ in the lyrics of a long-forgotten song from a ‘One-Hit-Wonder’ Scottish Band. Who’d have thought it eh? I never thought I’d be writing about ‘Moving Any Mountain’ nearly 27 years later but when you’ve relocated a few ‘Everests’ of your own, you’ll then know just how good it feels to celebrate and broadcast your success.

With delivery smooth like water from a fountain

That's why I can move any mountain move any mountain…

You’ll be surprised too, that ‘Success breeds Success’ and once you’ve ‘Moved one Mountain’ you’ll want to move more, even other people’s. Working in a team always helps even when building mountains just as the folk did in Taff’s Well, South Wales. After WW1 the locals discovered that Garth Hill was in fact a few feet short of being a mountain. Together they added the necessary elevation, restored the local pride, inspired a book and even spawned a 1995 Hugh Grant Film.

So grab some inspiration from our Coleman Coaching Clients, it’s gradually happening for a lot of the people we are working with. Probably not in the more instant, earth shattering, obvious transition that we love to shout about but hey, ‘Moving a Mountains’ takes time.

Is it time to ‘Move YOUR Mountain’? Buckle up, ‘Spring’s Springing’ and we are too…

Better get yourself ready for the next transition
'Cause the time is right for a new vibration…

Rory Coleman - rory@colemancoaching.co.uk

1,011 Marathons - 245 Ultras - 14 Marathon des Sables - 9 Guinness World Records