Process, the overlooked step

Growing, moving, changing, developing, getting better; from one level to another, all require process.  The media sensationalizes the over night sensation or success of starts, singers, actors/actresses; for the minority their rise may have been overnight but the overwhelming majority will tell you that moving from one level to the next, growing, becoming the person one feels he or she was destined is more than an overnight thing but a process of steps, a series of events and a lapse of time that one was overlooked before he or she was promoted in any area on any level.

Contrary to popular belief success doesn’t happen overnight, while it may be televised overnight, the road to success is a process.  Process is such an unstable thing, because in the midst of growing process is ugly.  Process is an inbetween stage and from first glance it is chaotic, an array of things happening at once which seem not to be moving in any type of direction and seemingly unrelated.  For when one grows it is not just a physical thing but an emotional, mental, social and sometimes spiritual growth all in one.   So as the body is growing to prepare for the next thing, there is a series of changes occurring simultaneously and those changes are process.  If you have ever watched one bake anything from scratch[the new generation may not understand this] there are a series of steps which seem unrelated and unnecessary that one will take to ensure the finish product is good not only to taste but sight as well.  Looking at the kitchen of a baker is worse because often the process of putting the ingredients together require space and lots of it as well as measuring cups, pans and so forth.  Likewise is the transformation or metamorphis that occurs when a person is moving from one state in his or her life to the next.  On the outside he or she may appear careless, without a plan, without hope and doomed for failure especially when those looking undervalue and misunderstand the power of process.

Before you make it to the finish product there is process or preparation that must occur.  Sometimes one has to be willing to look a mess for a season in order to be complete for a lifetime.

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