Large stones flower up in a garden of trees and sand. I walk through the pink and crystal sand, reaching the base of a blob of rocks.

Strategically placed, these rocks create steps that I start to climb. I take a deep breath when I reach the top, looking down and around, my eyes resting on each group of rocks and floating to the mountains in the distance.

My hair touches my eyelashes and a breeze rushes around me that I don’t feel 3 yards below. I want to stand up here for hours.

I look down again. For a moment I freeze. The height and possibility of falling had not terrified me before. But this second time I look down, I begin to doubt myself.

During a recent visit to the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, I realized that this moment of doubt wasn’t a completely new feeling. I do approach situations with confidence, and certainly more than before, but then I start to worry and doubt myself.

The only way to overcome that fear and doubt is to keep working at it, so that maybe next time during the second look down, it won’t be so bad.