The Struggle Before Takeoff: Overcoming Resistance to Achieve Your Dreams

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The most amount of fuel is burnt by an aircraft just before it flies out in the air.

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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.

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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.

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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:

"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor
― Alexis Carrel

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Wow!!! This is the pure words of a man who actually knows so much about the true roots of life.

The way you used the plane and related it's taking-off to life is so accurate. I think this article is completely meant for everyone. I can't count how many times I have thought or dreamed of ideas, but resistance keeps suppressing my ideas and I.

Guess all we need is, enough discipline on suppressing the resistance 💯

Similarly Gold without passing through the furnace cannot be made beautiful into a piece of jewellery. This is quite an enlightening piece,🌹

Exactly the point... I like the way you put it.

Thanks for the Gold example

You are welcome 🤗

This is not just resistance but resilience. Sometimes, you feel dragged backward where you were supposed to be moving forward. This has been m and weakness, but when one can be able to come out of such resilience, then the truth behind the dragging would be diverted.

We ignored what we were supposed to do just because of that thing that kept telling us, "Hey, stop right there and take a step backward.". Some thoughts would even say to us "Hey, stop thinking forward.". This may kill our dreams to be greater people in life.

I think you got the meaning of resilience wrong..

Lack of resilience is when we stay backwards instead of moving forward against the resistance.

Yeah, that was the opposite I spoke of then.
I was trying to relate it to physics but got the wrong thing. You are right. When you bounce back from stress or something that has been dragging you backward, then that is what is referred to as resilience.

You were supposed to do something great but somehow got carried away by some unwanted scene. But when you finally got to know your directions, pulling out of such a thing would be the best.

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Indeed there are many things we want to do but because of the resistance we don't dare to take the first step. Maybe that's why it's said that first step is always harder and need the courage to make it possible.
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You post just make me reflect on so many forgotten dreams, will try to retrace my steps and see those I can bring to light.