Once upon a time, I believed that through my force of will, I could control the outcome of an event. I’m laughing while writing this and getting strange stares from patrons in my local coffee shop because it’s so funny that I actually believed that bullshit. Over time I began to understand the best you can do is work hard on your process, whatever that may be and take advantage of opportunities that will invariably show up. Thinking you can influence an event’s outcome or definitely achieve a goal just because it’s on your vision board is naïve and counterproductive.

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Writing is difficult at the best of times.
Imagine having a goal in your head of a finished book and the kind of impact you want it to have on readers. In your head, you know how it will flow, how the characters will jump off the page, and the action will have your heart pounding. That ideal picture is in your head, so your job is to reproduce your end goal.
You’ll never achieve it.

If you’re a master, you can come close; for the rest of us, we try again, set bigger goals and get closer to our ideals. Some writers are encouraged by this, while others become anxious and depressed. I was the latter until the penny dropped, and I began appreciating the process. And that appreciation can extend to any endeavour.

If your goal is to run a marathon, the process of training for it will teach you discipline, perseverance, and resilience - skills that will benefit you in other areas of your life. By focusing on the process, you develop habits and skills that become part of who you are, making it more likely that you’ll achieve future goals as well. This sense of fulfilment is much more sustainable and long-lasting than the temporary satisfaction of achieving a goal or the disappointment of failure.

Remember, the outcome is not entirely within your control. The only thing you have ultimate control over is your actions. Organised actions create systems; a great system can stack the odds in your favour to achieve almost anything.
Finding a system that works for you and helps you achieve your goals is important, but you can only find it by getting good at executing your process.

And the only way to do that is to start. 

Make it work.

 

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