Your Biggest Enemy.

We all have dreams.  But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determinaton, dedication, self-discipline and effort.

Heaving my body off the top bunk at the break of day (or when the alarm jams a tune into my ear canals) to go for a morning run is like trying to fly a kite with no wind.  

It simply won't work.  Should I have determination, I could try running to create the wind, but alas! determination and running are the two problems here.  

So the proverbial kite remains flightless and comfortably tucked away.

The enemy shouts: "You can't"

or whispers, "Take the easy way out."

Wind, with it's powerful current brings both destruction and cooling breezes.  It can uproot trees and it can produce elecricity.  It creates monster waves yet is gentle enough to guide a delicate kite through the air.  The wind shouts, "I'm too scary for you!" or calmly whispers "Feel fresh and renewed". . .

We all have dreams. 

What is telling you "no"?

It's yourself.  

YOUR BIGGEST ENEMY IS YOURSELF.

If there's no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm.  I am the one who says it's to early to get up.  I am the one who says my body is too sore to run.  I say junkfood tastes better.  I say my dream is too big.  My obstacles are too hard.

Surely as skipping out on workouts won't help you win a race and eating junkfood will make you fat, the kite who succumbs to the fear of the wind will never leave the ground.

Should you choose to be determined, dedicated and self-disciplined, anything is possible.  The force of the wind or the greatness of a dream cannot be stopped when you've made up your mind.  We can do far more than we're capable of if we just try.

If you don't silence the enemy within, you will never fly.

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