Description
The Riches of Life’s Journey: Business and Personal Life Lessons from El Camino de Santiago
by Peter Martin (Author)
El Camino de Santiago is like any path to a Goal to which you are committed; your Mindset is your Advantage. Set a Goal with a no compromise attitude, step on the path and see it through to the end and you will experience amazing and profound things in your life.
This book has come from that experience, written on the road and in the week before I left Santiago. It is an accumulation of the insights and experiences of the walk, over 35 years in the personal development field together with my life’s experiences as a business owner, father of six wonderful adults and a husband of over 40 years.
This guide has been designed to leave markers that you can use on YOUR path wherever and whatever that may be as you walk through the pages of this book, you may begin to see that the path in front of you today is no different to the path across Spain. The Lessons of the Camino can empower you to a more fulfilling, wealthier and healthier life.
The Riches of Life’s Journey
Life’s Journey, Just Me and the Road
On the Camino, with each day, when it came down to it, it was just me and the road, no excuses, no reasons, no focusing on aches and pains. Just another little 
decision that wasn’t really a decision because it was a “No Other Option” Goal.
When it comes down to it for you, it’s just you and your road. Since you, as a human being, are outcome oriented by design and nature, even if you choose not to choose to have a goal, that in itself is the goal, to stay the same. When you look in the mirror, it is you! There is no one, no something, no circumstances that can stop you when the goal is a “No Other Option” Goal. Instead of saying internally or out loud “I can’t because . . . . . . .”or “ If only they hadn’t . . . . .”or something similar, you’ll say “This is the situation. . . . . .” Now! “How can I respond?” “What can I do?” Because of the nature of the brain and mind, you WILL find the way to continue.
On the second last day of My Camino, I ended up walking 50 km. A decision I made on that day regarding the position of albergues and distances to travel was not a good one in hindsight. By the time I reached Arca I had a very sore lower shin and muscle around the shin on my left leg and limped slowly into the Albergue at 5.45pm. From Palas de Rei, where I had started, it had been ten hours of walking. I was a little concerned how my leg would be when the tissue cooled down.
I reviewed my day and my plan for that last day. My thinking process was even if I have to walk slower, even if I have to lean heavily on my walking stick, even if I took all day to walk that last 18 kms – I will finish TOMORROW – no question about it. You see it was a “No Other Option” Goal and from travelling the road with that attitude, I had learnt to look at “How I could “not” why I couldn’t”.
Amazingly, the next morning as I started slowly and gingerly, my leg unseized and responded to my attitude and although I walked with a slight limp and a little slower, I finished in Santiago 4 hours later.
Just you and your road – an incredibly freeing realisation that you have it in you to find a way. It may not be as you planned, it may not be you who directly solves the challenge, but intuitively the resources and where with all will appear such is the awesome power of the body, mind, and spirit under the influence of a “No Other Option” Goal.
