Going for the Goal!

And it’s lift off! Going for the goal
Flying on the plane from Singapore to Manila, it took the usual amount of patience to wait for the other remaining passengers to board. Then for all the flight attendants to check that everything is in order. All this waiting is coupled with excitement, a sense of adventure, a certain unknowing.

The plane finally taxis from its lot, slowly, carefully, inching its way toward the runway. After a short pause at the start of the runway, it gathers all the speed it can muster and races itself to the end of the runway, giving it all it has. Finally, after an extremely short, but exhilarating 30 seconds, it lifts itself off the ground and ventures off into the clear blue skies. Leaving land and country, to a new territory, a new adventure, a new phase, new people, new direction, new goals.

It is this short 30 seconds that I feel my ears plug up, my body giving itself a jerk, a little churning in the stomach. And my mind says ‘This is it, we’re on our way, there’s no turning back now’.

Setting a goal, having a vision
It is like the plane on taxi. Slowly, surely, it takes time to listen to the voice inside. It takes careful consideration, praying and waiting for direction, to be really convicted with the goal in mind. And even at the start of the runway, at the short pause of waiting, it is psyching oneself up for the challenge. There can be no courage without fear.

There is no turning back
At the word ‘Go’, there is no turning back. Once the mind is made up, with full conviction, we move ahead, no matter what comes in the way. As John Maxwell said in his book ‘Be all you can be’, “The poorest person in the world is not the person who doesn’t have a nickel. The poorest person in the world is the one who doesn’t have a vision. If you don’t have a dream – a goal and a purpose in life – you’re never going to become what you could become.”

Are we just existing from day to day, without direction, without dreams? Do we feel a restlessness within? Have our questions to life been answered? Do we dare to dream and dream big?