Your Life is 99% Process, 1% Outcome
Reflecting on this Adam Grant post…
All the shiny outcomes in the world won’t make you happy if you hate what you do and the way you feel while you get there.
And a thousand misses, fails, and roadblocks won’t impact you that much if you love your problem-solving PROCESS and the WAY you work every day.
Whatever you do to get there…
You’re going to have to keep doing it to stay there.
Whatever you do to lose weight…is what you’ll have to do to maintain your weight loss.
Whatever you do to get promoted…is what you’ll have to do to succeed in your new role.
Whatever you do to clear your to do list today…is what you’ll have to do to clear it again tomorrow.
Whatever you do to woo your partner…is what you’ll have to do to keep your partner.
Stop telling yourself the lie that the painful means are necessary and justified to get you to your worthy end.
There is no end. There are only means.
So make your home in the process.
The problems are going to keep coming, no matter how much you achieve.
Imagine sitting down to work on them — and it feels like the best part of your day.
Imagine getting up after a hard day’s work — and feeling better than you did when you started.
Imagine going to bed feeling satisfied, and thinking — That was fun. I can’t wait to do it again tomorrow.
Design a way of working toward your goals that feels like coming home.
Because the way you do things and the way you talk to yourself IS your home, and it will be for as long as you’re alive.
And those shiny, shiny outcomes that you’re working so hard to get to…
The weight on the scale.
The promotion announcement.
The empty to do list.
The big, white wedding.
All of those are just single, sunny days that will pass you by before you realize.
None of them are where you LIVE.
So if you want to build a home that will keep you warm and safe, no matter how many storms rage outside.
Come talk to me, and I’ll show you how, step by step.
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