Mark Pattison from NFL to 7 Summits

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mark Pattison was catching touchdown passes in the last minutes of games to stadiums of 100,000 plus thousand people. Playing football at a high level taught him how to think big and step into fear. When his NFL career ended, what was next? It’s not easy to leave a job and identity like that. After a pivot to what became a successful marketing and import, export business - Mark Pattison decided that how things looked from the outside mattered less than how he felt on the inside. He wanted to truly follow his passion for the mountains. Here is where his Seven Summits mission began, to attempt to be the first NFL player to successfully hike the tallest mountain on each continent. Today he is 6 mountains in. He was preparing to summit Everest this summer, but just like many of us, COVID-19 changed his plans <a href= "https://www.markpattisonnfl.com/category/blog/">https://www.markpattisonnfl.com/category/blog/</a> . But he still knows</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">preparation means opportunity! </span></em></p> <p><br /> <br /></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">LESSONS </span></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shift your internal questions</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Be goal oriented</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Adjust, adapt, change and pivot </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can’t control mother nature </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Your greatest strength can also be your greatest weakness </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Preparation means opportunity </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Be authentic and true to what your going after </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Step into your fear </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;