The Struggle Before Takeoff: Overcoming Resistance to Achieve Your Dreams

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Momentum requires energy to overcome resistance. Just like an aircraft burns the most fuel before takeoff, we, too, face our greatest struggles just before we rise. These words have been going through my thoughts for some while and I am beginning to relate them to my life and also to others.

Before going on, read the first paragraph again for a minute, think about it, try to derive a meaning from it, see how it can relate to your life and then come back to read the rest of this text.

There have been a lot of dreams we have had, a lot of thoughts and goals that have come through our minds and have been left undone, even many of them we have forgotten because we never started the journey to walk through them. Not that we did not really want it but it was something we desired, but yet could not lift the cup to help ourselves.

We could see the cup just right in front of us, with a desire to pour out the jug of coffee into the cup to drink but what exactly is keeping us from taking that action? The resistance, the backforce that keeps us to stay at our comfort zone; we need an activation energy far greater than this resistance to take this action—to begin what we dream of.

And even when we acquire just enough energy to move, the resistance tries to hold us, to keep us put at where we are used to, to fear the challenge that is before us, to fear failure, and finally get burnt out, forgetting the dream we once had, the goals we once wished for.

But just if, I say if, we are able to remain disciplined to our dreams, our aspirations, and our goals, and to embrace challenges and failures as the requirements and price needed to fly like the aeroplane, we would realise how much we are being shaped by these resistances.

This reminds me of a quote: