Yesterday I did a video about embracing the journey and trusting the process. The destination is cool and all, but the journey is where all the growth happens. A goal achieved is great, but look back on what it took to get you there. If not for all the things that happened along the way, you may not have been strong enough to deal with the success of reaching that goal. Trusting the process means embracing the journey and all that comes with it.
Here's what people won't tell you: the journey sucks. It's full of fear, pitfalls, mud and muck, swamps, valleys, enemies, hatred, darkness, and evil. Seriously. I walk the journey everyday and I see it. I struggle with depression. I wrestle with it daily, yet I get out of bed and come to work on days that keep many of my fellow sufferers in bed. Why?
Because I ENJOY the journey. I embrace the fight against the darkness. I run at it headlong and at full steam (or as I tend to say, Full Tilt Boogie). Why?
Because I have stood on the mountain tops and seen the valleys for what they are; illusions. All the bad things that go thru your head about why you "can't" do something, it's all an illusion. I hate clichès, but it's all F.E.A.R. False Evidence Appearing Real. All the reasons you tell yourself you can't, it's all based on evidence that's not evidence at all, it's conjecture and assumption. I'm not saying the struggle isn't real, I'm saying most of it is made up in our heads to scare us out of doing something hard. Everything seems impossible until it's done.
I thought it impossible to own my own business, I'm building it and learning to own it. I thought it impossible for someone like me to run long distance, I've done a marathon and a 30 mile Spartan Race. I thought it impossible for me to be a good dad with a dad who abandoned me and a step-dad who was the example of what not to do but my kids are joyful, disciplined, kind, and we love each other. There are days that I think it impossible to get out of bed because my body hurts and the thoughts that fill my head are all about how much I suck. But I get out of bed because of the small voice inside of me that reminds me I have to fight. Why?
2 reasons:
1) This Marianne Williamson quote - Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
I LOVE watching you all embrace your own journey, it makes the fight worth it. The brighter I can get myself to shine, the brighter I get to watch you all shine. So go get it!!!
And 2) I genuinely enjoy the journey. I enjoy the fight. Because I have seen the mountain tops, and It. Is. BEUATIFUL! But you'll never now how beautiful they are unless you see the mud and muck involved in the journey.
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