Savour the Journey
Vision clear? Check!
Goals sorted? Check!
Belief nailed?…. I can do this! Check!
The journey has begun towards achieving something great or important. It’s so exciting.
Know that feeling? It can happen at any time when a goal is set towards achieving something meaningful to us.
The journey starts off well – with a hiss and a roar and often at speed – because we are highly motivated towards achieving the end result. The goal. It’s still exciting.
The road appears straight; an easy ride to the end. Excellent! This will be a ‘walk in the park’ to achieve.
Eeekkk. What’s happened? There are twists and turns in the road. More twists and turns. Oh no, I feel a bit carsick. I don’t have a bucket or plastic bag. It wasn’t meant to be like this….
…and OMG, there’s a big hill coming up! I wonder what’s around the corner after that?
I’m not enjoying this journey. It is getting a bit too hard. Is the destination worth it?
Sound familiar?
The journey towards achieving almost everything we want in business and life is never a straight line or an easy ride. There will always be twists and turns and unexpected stops, starts, and possibly, u-turns. That’s life.
I truly believe we are supposed to savour the journey towards achievement of the goal. The essence of the experience, the learning, is in the journey and not the destination.
Savour the journey! That might sound disingenuous… some journeys in life (and business) are really, really difficult. I totally agree, and I have had many VERY hard journeys in my life and business, like everyone else.
It seems that we want everything fast and furious in today’s world. We want it all now and without too much effort – well, certainly our children do, in my experience.
Yet, not so long ago, it wasn’t like that! Not so long ago, we accepted that the journey would be a challenge, a struggle worth having, as that is what all the stories were about… the struggle towards achieving something important or great.
Have we forgotten that overcoming the struggle and completing the journey is THE key part of the achievement?
If everything in life was easy, life would be homogeneous and boring. The struggle and the journey is what gives life colour, excitement, and variety.
In my opinion, the struggle and the journey is what we fondly remember, long after the goal has been achieved. It makes the achievement of the goal more precious.
Think about it. After the storm has passed and the journey is over, have you had amazing learnings, lessons and experiences that, in a funny old way, are integral to who you are today? I certainly have. It’s often those lessons and experiences that propel us onto the next journey with all its winding roads, hills, and mountains to climb.
So I say, savour the journey. But we don’t have to go it alone. We can ask for help. We can seek guidance. We can receive the roadmap from others who have gone on the journey before us. Still, we may choose to take a different road, even with a roadmap; it is our journey, so we can do it our way.
The result is our vision, our goals, our beliefs, our journeys, our successes, our failures… are our own life learnings, lessons and experiences in all their uniqueness. They are integral to who we are and who we become over time.
I don’t know about you, but those thoughts alone constantly propel me to go on journey after journey after journey…. treasuring each one.
I’d love to hear of your journeys and the struggles along the way. How about leaving a comment below so we can start a conversation on this topic?
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