Embrace the process

Commit to it everyday

There are days when I sit and review and I realise everyday is busy. Everyday there is something. Everyday there will be something. It doesn’t end. The strive just doesn’t end. To fight the process is make everyday a despair. To begin to embrace the process is to gain greater control.

Whatever we desire there is a process of getting there. Very few if anything worth achieving or accomplishing contains any shortcuts, rather just different ways of doing things. You must endure the process to obtain the end. When you say it to yourself it seems obvious. Off course everything has a process of getting there. But when we rise everyday it doesn’t always make sense. It feels sometimes pointless, often intangible. This process thing. This thing we are committing to everyday. Why am I even doing this? What is the point? I actually want to do nothing today? I actually don’t even know if I want to be doing this? Why am I doing this? These are questions that have haunted me when the process feels all too much. But, this doubt, this pain my friends is a part of the process.

Every meal become a meal via a process of preparation. Every product that has ever been made become valuable to people’s live via a process of production. Every artwork we have ever admired, was created via a process of artistry. All of theses processes have their challenges but is a necessary part of the process. For what you desire most in your life, think less about the thing, but the process of getting there. And be ok with the most difficult parts of that process. When you face a challenge recognise it is part of the process, you can’t skip it, you can get there without the challenge. Commit to the process. Embrace it like the goal itself. To do that is to always be on the journey to living the life you so desire for yourself. And to hopefully one day actually get there. But - there, is just the cherry on top. The actual reward is growing through the process to become the person that gets there. Commit to the process. Once you learn that, once you accept that, the mundaness, the sameness, the struggle of the process becomes more bearable if not something you look forward to. I am yet to get there, but I’m on my way.

This thought process has changed my life and I am sure will do the same to you. Embrace the process like it is the reward. The growth you are gaining going through the process is the reward. Commit to the process and you will achieve what you dream of sooner than you think.