Respect The Process

As we reach the second half of the year, one of the most important lessons I've learned is this: You must respect the process.

Everything in life goes through a process. An organism's gestation in a mother's womb, turning a caterpillar into a butterfly, photosynthesis, evaporation and condensation (and I'm not talking about milk), cryogenics, asexual (and even sexual) reproduction. And each of these processes are bound by an uncontrollable variable: TIME.

[QUICK SIDEBAR: This has helped me, for example, be a better cook. I used to be very impatient, cooking over high fire, undercooking vegetables, for example. But since I've learned to be more patient, more respectful of the process so to speak, my cooking has improved (I think).]

And I realize that this applies to every other aspect in our lives. In our careers. In our relationships. In our personal struggles.

Do you believe that right now, right this moment, everything around you is conspiring to make you reach an inevitable goal? The weather, the tiniest comments of people about you, circumstances --- all of these are aligning to put you in a situation that will get that train going.
Do you believe that right now, someone has you on his mind, it could be because of what you can do, what you have, or how deeply you mean to that person? Do you believe that his daily thoughts will culminate to an event that will change your life forever? He could either fire you or promote you. Or ask you to marry him or break your heart.

Either way, it's part of a process. That's what's so magical about it--- how millions of different variables will come together to make you who you will be.

But the trick to accepting it all is to have faith. Have faith in the process. Like my friend Tisay used to tell me: "It's always okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end."