One day a young man noticed a cocoon lying on the ground. He picked up and with a little research discovered it was the cocoon of an Emperor Moth.
After watching the cocoon over several days, he noticed a small opening had appeared. Over the next several hours, as he watched and waited, the moth began to appear and struggled to force its body through the small hole.
After a while its progress appeared to stop. It seemed as if it had gotten as far as it could. The boy decided to help. Taking a pair of scissors, he snipped off the remaining piece of cocoon and the moth easily emerged.
It's body was badly swollen; its wings were small and shriveled. The boy watched intently expecting the body to shrink and the wings to expand. Neither happened. In fact, the moth only crawled around with a swollen body and shriveled wings, unable to fly.
What the boy didn't understand was the restricting cocoon caused the moth to struggle to exit and that struggle forced the fluid from its body into its wings. Once it had escaped, it would be free to fly.
This struggle - the obstacle the moth faced - was designed for a reason. Without that obstacle, the moth was crippled. Obstacles give us the opportunity to learn and grow. Without them, we'd never be able to realize our true potential.
The biggest obstacle a boat faces is water, but without it there'd be no reason for the boat. The biggest obstacle a bird faces is the wind, but without it, the bird cannot soar.
Remind yourself and your organization that obstacles are not to be avoided or lampooned. They force us to find ways over, under or around them so we can move on and achieve our goals. And through the solutions we arrive at to overcome the obstacles, we become stronger.
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