Are You ‘Better’ Than The Process?

A lot of us give up on our dreams because we start to work – hard – but we don’t see the fruit of our work, or we come up against a barrier. For some reason, be it the rapid speed in which we can access things, a different way of viewing the world, or some other facet of life, we don’t trust the process anymore. We are all results and no hard work. We hope that a few bursts of effort will get us to where we want to be. And after 2 or 3 ‘bursts’, we are telling ourselves that it will never work for us. We are impatient to get to the end point. However, if you speak to any successful person who seems to be living the life of ‘results’, they will attest to the thousands of hours that they had to push through – mentally and physically – to get to a point where things became slightly easier. It is the unseen process that forms you and trains you to handle success. You learn invaluable lessons about how the world operates, and your own strengths and weaknesses. That’s why self-made millionaires usually stay successful and lotto winners are broke in a few months. That’s why people who eat well and exercise stay lean and those who follow fad diets yoyo up and down. Trust and respect the process. It is arrogance to believe that you are ‘better’ than the process and can take shortcuts. It is also self-sabotage.