The value is found in developing resilience during the process & who you become as a byproduct of your endurance.
“The best part of achieving anything isn’t the end result at the finish line.
The direct result at the end is the most short lived aspect of achievement.
The value is in the process (resilience development) & who you become as a byproduct of your endurance (personal growth).
-Ray Zingler on X
I’ve set a lot of goals in my life.
When I was young and “full of ambition” I was a bit naïve.
I accomplished a lot in my early years that most definitely contributes to the success in some of my endeavors today, but I’ve also had several goals that “looked good on paper” but never came to fruition.
I remember being more obsessed with goal setting than I was actually achieving goals.
I used to take the entire last week of the year and plan out my goals for the ensuing year ahead.
And no, I don’t mean a few bullet points, I mean running out of pages in college ruled notebooks because I was so obsessive and detailed.
And while being detail oriented is important in regards to goal setting, you can fly off the handle and become too rigid.
Again, I know a guy.
So, what I started to do was simplify my goals.
Imagine that.
I learned that it was okay to have flexibility within your goals because the real value of goals isn’t actually found in achieving them.
“Wait, what?”
You read that right.
While achieving goals does (very) temporarily feel good in the split second of the moment, the real value of goals is found in the person you become during the process of achieving them.
Think of it like this.
Let’s say you have a goal to do “X” every day, for 365 days in a row.
January 1, you check the box.
June 18, you check the box.
November 9, you check the box.
December 31, you check the final box.
You landed every single punch you threw 365-days in a row.
You “won”.
Are you telling me all the value was in the punch thrown on December 31?
December 31 is substantially less than 1% of the time spent achieving the goal.
The value of said goal was who you become as a byproduct of choosing “do” for the last 365 days in a row.
They won’t tell you this, but the finish line is actually the start line.
You never arrive (until He says, “well done my good and faithful servant”) you just get to leverage the compounded interest yielded by your increased discipline.
