If You’re Not Enjoying the Process, What Makes You Think You’ll Enjoy the Destination?
To fall in love with the process is to fall in love with life itself. Nothing less.
Let’s be honest.
If you’re not enjoying the process, what makes you think you’ll enjoy the destination?
Think about whether this is you.
The business owner working 16-hour days, because she thinks that when she makes 6-figures, then she’ll be happy.
The writer hiding his true voice and gifts, because he thinks that if he just collects enough corporate logos on his website, then he’ll feel “professional”.
The freelancer copying others’ words, designs, tone of voice and services, because she thinks that as long as she ‘gets the right answer’, then she’ll be successful.
When you allow yourself to fall in love with the process, rather than the result, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy or worthy.
But falling in love with the process doesn’t happen by itself. It takes intention. You make a choice.
You make a choice to fall in love with making the sale, not just getting the money.
You make a choice to fall in love with the marathon training, not just crossing the line.
You make a choice to fall in love with the messy learning curve of growing your business, not just the Instagrammable moments.
Because life doesn’t start when you arrive somewhere better. Life is happening right now, in every moment.
So if you’re not enjoying the process, what’s the point?
Here’s How You Set the Rules of Your Game to Fall in Love With the Process:
Focus on being just 1% better every day.
Extract the lessons from your mistakes, be grateful for them, and use them to serve others.
Give yourself levels to climb, and when you reach them, stop and celebrate. Then keep climbing.
To fall in love with the process is to fall in love with life itself, nothing less.
Alan Watts explained it much better than me: Life is not a journey, it’s a dance.
Pass it on.
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