There is a multitude of methods and strategies that help one pursue a path to achievement. It’s certainly not one size fits everyone solution.

But no matter what strategy one chooses, it’s a process.

Nothing happens overnight! Yes, some successes seem meteoric. It appears as if they come out of nowhere. However they do not. How do I know?

Well, It would be helpful to consider the process that allows one to see a meteor in the night sky.

Before we ever see the evidence of a meteoroid appearing in the atmosphere as a streak of brilliant light, it has been on a course to its destination. It has been in motion.

The Process: From Asteroid to Meteor

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National Geographic says,

As asteroids smash into each other, they produce debris—meteoroids. The force of the asteroid collision can throw the meteoroid debris—and sometimes the asteroids—out of their orbit. And this can put the meteoroids on a collision course with a planet or moon.”

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/meteoroid

We see the results once meteoroids crash into our atmosphere.

National Geographic notes,

“When a meteoroid passes through Earth’s atmosphere, it heats up because of air resistance. The heat causes gases around the meteoroid to glow brightly. This glowing meteoroid is a meteor, sometimes nicknamed a “shooting star.”

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/meteoroid

With the same notion, we look at our dreams and goals. Merely because we do not see something happen with immediacy does not mean it’s not on the way.

The Achievement Process

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The start is often challenging; of that, there is no lie. However, starting is essential.

Maintaining consistency is even more onerous, but it’s necessary.

However, one of the hardest things is believing and trusting that your actions will pay off.

It’s hard to plant seeds in the ground, both needing and wanting a harvest, yet having to patiently wait until the seed sprouts, grows, and is ripe for the picking. Unfortunately, the only thing within your power is the planting and the watering. You cannot force it to happen. It will happen when it happens.

 A Personal Share

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I remember my pregnancies fondly. I was full of expectancy, wanting to know what my babies would look like and how life would be once blessed with their presence. Yet no matter how expectant or excited I was for the delivery, the timing of their birthing wasn’t in my hands.

I was dilated for quite some time with one of my pregnancies, but nothing happened until my son was ready to come into the world. At another delivery, I was told to walk, bounce on a ball, and do whatever I could to catalyze labor. But still, my baby came when it was ready to be born.

Learn to Trust the Process

When we commit to a process to accomplish a goal, we have to learn to trust the process. We have to move as if what we desire is right around the corner. Trust that our efforts will pay off. But that all starts and ends in the mind.

A Word of Encouragement

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So today, I encourage you! If you are in the process of waiting, keep holding out. If you have planted and watered, trust it’s on the way. If you have conceived, trust and believe that what you are pregnant with will be delivered. In the words of Joel Olsteen, you can’t deliver what you haven’t conceived.” But if you have conceived it, you can be sure you will birth it.

When it is fully grown. It will be born at the appointed time, not your designated time.

So hold on, keep pushing, and trust the process.