Forget everything that you’ve heard about reaching your goal. Forget everything you’ve heard about success.
Forget it all.
Why? Because maybe we’ve been focusing on the wrong thing. Maybe we were all off.
As far I’ve learned, it’s not always about the destination. Nope. Every destination is only a fulfillment towards an achievement. And in a greater sense, every destination is a starting point for getting going once more. Our presence at the destination is but for a moment. It never lasts, because we are always challenging ourselves to do more and to become more.
So when you think about it, the real meat and the real strength of who we are come from journey towards the destination. It is every step that we take along the way to the fulfilling our goals and dreams. It’s the character that is set within us to become who we are. Undoubtedly, the steps are the most important part of our journey.
Throughout every journey we must take, it’s who we become in the process that matters. That’s where the rubber meets the road. That’s where we become our best selves.
And, if we don’t become what we need to be for the next part of the journey, then the destination really means nothing. Throughout everything that we encounter in life, we should be forced to become greater, to stretch, and to unleash something within ourselves that we never even knew was there.
And the only way that we can do that… the only way we can reach our greater selves, is through the very steps that we take to the destination we aspire to reach.