You Have to Earn the Destination - An Intro to Process
When I’m making a million a year, taking the yacht to Monaco for the Grand Prix, and summering in a castle along the Tuscan coast, I’ll finally be able to implement those characteristics of a successful lifestyle that I keep reading about. It’ll be easier then!
Ahem, allow reality to interject here…if you wait, you’ll never…
This is the reality behind the process.
THE TRUTH
We get it backwards. Someone becomes a millionaire and changes the world with their ingenuity, innovation, and inspiration. They star in a documentary about themselves, write books, have books written about them and their “success inducing habits” and then you and I pick them up on our bookstore meanderings. We get to see their habits through the frame of their success, but the timeline is all thrown off. It’s hindsight.
The fact of the matter is that those habits are what made them successful - they have to come first.
LET’S APPLY THAT REALITY
So, make the mental switch to considering your life’s goals.
You want to build a business, build a fortune, lose some weight, become famous, or in some manner change the world or your personal reality, right? You can, but you have to do it right, and that means submitting yourself to the process.
WHAT IS THE PROCESS?
The process is what makes up the building blocks AND the glue that hold things together. The process is that time where you spend long hours, weeks, months, and years quietly working on your skills, your knowledge, and your delivery.
It’s where you determine what you are incredible at (or want to be known for) and you get better at that thing every single day…indefinitely.
And, if you truly want to experience all that the process has to offer, you have to be willing to endure it for as long as it takes. It’s during this time that you become proficient and begin making headway towards your ultimate destination. Whether it takes years or decades, you have to be wholeheartedly committed to it. Drop the ball, lose focus, or shift tracks, and the results will be delayed…
IT’S NOT POPULAR
I get it. But I’d rather share an unpopular truth that will help you than fill your head with lies, platitudes, or “fluff” that is exciting but ultimately worthless.
I want to be successful and I want you to be successful, and that means that we have to follow the clues that success has left behind. So, read those books, watch the documentaries, absorb the content of your favorite motivator, but don’t forget to check your timelines!
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