The Path To Progress

…is paved with all sorts of things we wish it weren’t:

• “This isn’t how I thought things would happen”: It’s very rare for something important to go exactly as planned. Being okay with that is part of the path to progress.
• “This isn’t the outcome I wanted”: But this is the outcome we’ll get, over and over, until eventually, we don’t. Being okay with that is part of the path to progress.
• “I expected things to be different”: We all did. We can only do the best we can with what we have (it’s more than we think). Being okay with that is part of the path to progress.

The path to progress is paved with all sorts of things we wish it weren’t: