Celebrate the Process, Not the Result

A new year slogan says, "The best is yet to come!"

I like that. In my experience, and in the experience of a great many people, it can be true or inspiring a lot of times.

In my case, I've learned to just need to wait a while, get single-minded, probe more, take action more, to receive my best.

To receive the best that's yet to come, here's a well-proven tip: patience in the midst of process.

A broken-hearted, traumatized woman once asked me, "How long is therapy going to take to heal her pain of childhood abuse and rape?" She's still receiving therapy for months for problems rooted in the terrible  trauma of 20 years ago.

If you or someone is in the process of therapy, have patience. Healing from disease or injuries - whether physical or emotional - can take months, even years, especially when advanced. The best to come is one of deep-process healing and then strengthening for the future.

A major part of the process of psychological and spiritual healing is not only dealing with wounds from the past. It also involves acquiring skills, strategies, and new perspectives for facing the future in a healthy way. It calls for new ways of thinking, feeling, responding, behaving, and relating.

Don't allow your self to be discouraged when your best life is not instantaneous. Individuals who are truly going to be healed from lingering emotional wounds are going to have to walk through a process that takes time.

Not only are you to be encouraged and steadfast in working through the process. But you are to be joyful that you're on the way out! To freedom. To healing and wholeness. To your best life ever.

As Jeff Goins, one of my favorite writers, put it, "Measure the process, not the results." If you can celebrate the process, you can enjoy the outcome.

This is critically important towards your way to "receive the best yet to come" in your life.