September 24th, 2007

Rolling

We’ve all noticed the difference between going uphill and downhill. I never noticed it as much as I did when I took my first roller coaster ride (it was the Cyclone in Coney Island.) If it weren’t for the anticipation, that first uphill ride was tedious – it seemed as if the cars were laboring, struggling to make it. But the view grew more and more beautiful and the anticipation mounted.

Years later I saw a graph of the exponential function y = exp(x). This was the opposite of a roller coaster, yet it was the same. The curve seems almost flat, rising so slowly, so slowly … and then it takes off – it zooms up.

Well, that’s often how projects are, how plans come to fruition. You start slowly, overcoming inertia, pushing against your own resistance and the normal barriers that newness often faces. It sometimes seems like real efforting. When I studied this it was called ‘concentration’ – putting ten in and getting one out, working super-hard, well outside your comfort zone.

But the top of the roller coaster is reached; as is the cusp of the exponential growth curve. That’s the stage called ‘momentum,’ which quickly goes past one in one out and you soon put one in and get ten out. A consummation devoutly to be wished…

Well, what they don’t say is that you can feel its approach… The view very near the top is different; your eyes see new horizons; the air smells different; the ground noise shifts; it’s happening... And … zoom.

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Useful Quotations

The road to success runs uphill.
Willie Davis

There is an uphill for every downhill, and a downhill for every uphill
Turkish Proverb

If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
Samuel Smiles

The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same
Heraclitus of Ephesus

Creative Corner

The Struggle

 Getting those pants on
when your stomach doesn’t fit your mind
requires a stretch
of more than imagination.
a willingness to inhale and
never let it out
I have heard it cannot be done
vertically
Maybe it does take
imagination
and perseverance,
an escape from your zone of comfort
and into your zone of dreams.

But late that night
when you
at last
release that zipper,
unhook those slacks,
provide some slack
and let them drop -

Can heaven offer more?

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Creating Today - A daily journal on creativity
Contributing Coaching - Creating New Futures
Blogging for the Reading - Making a Difference in how we Create
Michael's Articles - articles that don't fit anywhere else.