Taking Time to Process Pain is Functionally Forwarding

You have a vision. You have a wealth of goals. You have worked on yourself to step into the faith that you can make these huge dreams turn into one collective reality.

You also, however, are human, so you get overwhelmed by the daunting amount of work it takes to bring your lists to fruition. You crave immediacy, and you know that life is ultimately short, and there is so much you want to do. And maybe most importantly, you hate the thought of stagnation. Your growth mindset makes it so that any inner sense that you are not moving forward can be a crushing notion.

I'm here, checking in, to hopefully provide some relief and reassurance on that front. Life is going to life, and that means the path to your horizon will never always be linear. Not only do you need to afford yourself grace -- as your best effort is going to fluctuate based on the natural fluidity of a day's/week's/month's/year's/etc's circumstances -- but you also need to solidify in your psyche an important distinction:

Stillness is not Stagnation.

Processing pain -- of loss, of missed opportunities, of change -- is part of life. Moreover, it is productive to your inner achiever's ultimate goal of catalyzing alignment of your highest hopes and intentions. Your soul's artistic truth requires taking time with down days, with hard emotions, with struggle, in order to stay in step with your own most authentic and optimal rendering.

Trust the process (trust YOUR process, as it is different than anyone else's),and have faith in the ultimate realization of your vision: even -- or maybe, especially -- when your workflow is met with emotional bumps in the road.