I was talking to my Dad today and we ended up talking about some situations that people get into. In this specific case we came to the topic of people that want to appear rich and when they are not at that point yet. The fact that you start earning a better salary doesn’t automatically mean that you will be blowing off money. As in most things in life, this takes time, it is a process.
In that conversation something came out of my mouth that struck me personally, you cannot be something if you don’t become it.
Many times in our lives we want greatness, we want fame and success but we fail when have to go into the process of getting there. We are too used to getting everything fast, going into a drive-thru and getting our food in minutes without having to cook it.
I want to be famous. I want to be rich. I want to be great. With no process, pain or suffering.
I guess it struck me personally because I want to achieve things, I look forward to being successful in many areas of my life and time after time I’m confronted with the reality of process.
One of my goals needs to be to become, to get into the process and see things happen. In more than one occasion I have received something gratuitously and have not given that thing the respect I would give to something I actually fought for.
If you are reading this I bet there’s something that you want to achieve, I bet there’s something that as you read this comes to mind. Are you willing to become instead of just being? Are you willing to go into the process and reap success? I hope I am.
I believe that it is in the midst of our greatest struggles that we become what we were meant to be.
