The next base camp
A mountain climb takes time. It takes patience, stamina and bullish persistence.
It requires stops for rest and re-assessment from time to time. And it happens at that next base camp.
Long arduous journeys therefore, are really a series of short bursts, from base camp to base camp; as much as your eyes are set on the peak.
All you focus on is how to get to that next base camp!
If the weather changes, if one of your team mates falls sick, if the climb proves harder, if your supplies are lost, or if you seem to be covering more ground than you had anticipated, you take stock, evaluate and firm up your plan for that next stage of your climb!
This is how I see entrepreneurship: a journey from base camp to base camp, until you have arrived!