Trust the process

Today I taught a colleague a new and not super exciting task: compiling a huge pile of reports. I told him that the preparatory work is key. Explaining that the more meticulous we are now, the easier things will get later. By lunch, we still hadn’t put together a single report. He was getting more and more frustrated, but I told him to trust the process. When we got back from lunch, it was time to do the “real work”. In reality, we had already done the real work. Now it was only about putting those preparations into action. It took less than two hours to finish everything. It’s so easy to focus on getting to the final result, neglecting the things leading up to it. Thinking we’re wasting time when, in fact, we’re saving both time and energy. But that part of the journey doesn’t show, so we get stressed. Another example is when I’m creating themes for Bear blog. I probably spend 75% of the time doing stuff that doesn’t show at all, but it’s super useful work that I’ll thank myself for…