Tethering To The Process || The Success Mindset

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Success is a word everybody knows. Everybody wants to become "successful." Why? It is probably because success looks good. Everyone wants to be that individual that everyone can say things about, like, "I wonder how he sleeps at night, knowing he is the biggest YouTuber in the country."

For this reason, since success undoubtedly looks good, people often want to associate themselves with it. So you hear people wishing they lived the life of success, which to them looks like a pile of money and a comfortable life.

On the contrary, the life of a successful individual is not one that is filled with comfort. Achieving and maintaining success takes a lot of hard work, but maintaining success is much harder work.

Where I am from, many young individuals like myself are on edge in pursuit of what it is they desire; "living the good life." It is a plague that instills in one the proclivity to pursue the end results of hard work, perseverance, and consistency, rather than the aforementioned success attributes.

They fail to recognize that in order to achieve sustainable success, one needs to understand the imperative necessity of suppressing the proclivity to be after results. It is actually in the process of building, during the "process," that you achieve the result you desire.

The definition of success may be subjective, yet it is generally accepted that attaining it cannot happen by accident—if you ask those that have now attained success, actually. To be successful, one needs to be "process-oriented" and not "result-oriented." This is because the former is the condiment for sustaining the resilience needed to actually achieve the outcome of the latter.

The path to success is a vigorous one and one that not everyone can take. It is those that make the deliberate decision to be resilient till they get to their destination that will actually get there and sustain it.

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The essence of process can never be overemphasized. It should become imperative for any individual (or group of individuals) to understand its necessity in the attainment of the stability they seek. Why? It is because anyone looking to prosper in this life must develop a mindset that can sustain one throughout the journey of success. Without this mindset, you will find many fall on the path to success, or develop an identical outcome to their pursuit, but it will not be sustainable.

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Many successful Olympic champions have a large number of medals to show for their achievements. These medals are very shiny and truly represent the owner's "success." But in reality, success is not in those medals, but in those accomplishments.

These accomplishments require a journey. A journey filled with struggles, challenges, ingeminated exercises, and most especially, failures. The journey is the process.

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It really is difficult to foresee success in the middle of failure. It is harder when things are even going in the opposite direction of what you intended. But the bitter truth is that failure is quite necessary.

To thrive in a world filled with challenges, one has to understand what it means to fail and how to exploit it to develop success.

Failing means that you tried something, some method, or followed a path that just isn't correlating with the result you expected, but you did not know that initially. Failure is an indication that you need to try something different in order to meet your expectations or goals. When you fail to realise that whatever it is you have tried just will not work and you have to try again with something else, that is when you are actually derailing from success.

Another thing people fail to understand is that it is important to go through failure, as this sometimes defines the authenticity of our success. For example, Thomas Edison made 1000 unsuccessful attempts before he created the first lightbulb. Because of his failed attempts, there are now 1000 ways to "not" make a lightbulb.

The award-winning poet, Maya Angelou, once said:

"𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔪𝔞𝔶 𝔢𝔫𝔠𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔶 𝔡𝔢𝔣𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔰, 𝔟𝔲𝔱 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔪𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔟𝔢 𝔡𝔢𝔣𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔡." ℑ𝔫 𝔣𝔞𝔠𝔱, 𝔦𝔱 𝔪𝔞𝔶 𝔟𝔢 𝔫𝔢𝔠𝔢𝔰𝔰𝔞𝔯𝔶 𝔱𝔬 𝔢𝔫𝔠𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔡𝔢𝔣𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔰 𝔰𝔬 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴 𝔴𝔥𝔬 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔞𝔯𝔢, 𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔢 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔥𝔬𝔴 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔦𝔱."

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The more one thinks of success as a "deliberate" journey, the closer you are to attaining sustainable success. It would reflect more on your mindset, eventually, in your actions as well.

The process, however, is a journey that never ends. Most assuredly, there will be outcomes along the way, but the reality of success is that you keep going, and you never stop.

It is in the process that you get to grow into the sustainable success that one seeks. It is a state where one gathers the momentum to propel themselves into greatness.

There are, of course, many hurdles one may have to grow through, but they really are not there to stop us. The first part of our lives that looks like a failure really is "preparation." You fail so you can be further equipped.

𝔚𝔥𝔢𝔫 𝔭𝔢𝔬𝔭𝔩𝔢 𝔰𝔲𝔠𝔠𝔢𝔢𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔶 𝔱𝔢𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔬 𝔭𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔶 𝔟𝔲𝔱 𝔴𝔥𝔢𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔶 𝔣𝔞𝔦𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔶 𝔱𝔢𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔬 𝔭𝔬𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯. - 𝔗𝔬𝔫𝔶 ℜ𝔬𝔟𝔟𝔦𝔫𝔰.

It is a season to understand that life is a process itself. And just like the iceberg analogy, most people only see the results produced in the process, but never the process itself.

The process really only ends for those that stop learning. And it never truly begins for those who refuse to learn and grow. Albert Einstein once said, "Once you stop learning, you start dying." And this could not be further from the truth.

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Designing the path to success involves tethering ourselves to the process, grasping its essence, and sticing with it rather than focusing on achieving the things we seek. We create our path to success through the process.

This "process-oriented" approach will sufficiently modify one's perspective, allowing us to channel energy towards taking greater action for process development.