Stay in the Process

Many a time, we are so inspired and motivated that we want to get to the desired future immediately, without earning it. At times like this, we hope a miracle would happen that would cause us to get it, a future we never worked for. Fine! You may be able to inherit it, but for our long would you keep what you never labored for?
At other times, our desires and longing for success are so strong that they become temptations for us to take the shortcut without realising that it’s the easiest way to cut short our lives.
A few of us sits at the corners of our rooms admiring success stories without paying attention to the story that took the hero from zero to success; at this point we get it all wrong and run without a vision. We run ahead of God and miss the process He intends to take us through.
No wonder our society is littered with many unbaked leaders, who were never followers nor trained; people who never led themselves successfully but attempting to lead a nation.
In his book ‘Repositioning Yourself’, T. D. Jakes said “I have come to realize that the destination is not the place where growth is attained and learning is a process, not a product.
There are certainly many ways to get to the top, but here is my point: ‘If you jump up, you would never stay up, but if you grow up, you would remain there.’
The only thing that can sustain us at any height in life is Character learnt only in the process of growth-the pains, tears, sweat and travails we experience as we strive to grow.
Gladwell Malcolm in his book, ‘The Outliers’ noted that ‘Practice isn’t what you do when you are good, it is what you do before you are good.’
So friends, the best route to the product we desire of your lives are the ‘processes’ that guarantees the product. I assure you; it is learning and building of character, so stay in the process.