Focus on Journey, Not the Fruits.

Life is a journey and the journey is in itself a reward. Have you heard this before?

It comforts us when we fail to reach the desired destination. When our dreams fail to manifests into our intended result. It shields us from the negativity that arises out of Failures. It also boosts our morale and inspires us to try afresh.

Some more motivational quotes like Failure is a stepping stone to success! help us stay hopeful.

The positive mindset helps us overcome the inertia that we feel inapt to overcome after a failure. We feel super-recharged and attempt the impossible, one more time. It acts like an anti-gravitational force that helps us lift ourselves from the ground.

That is the reason why we should focus on the journey & not the destination.

But wait!

So this means the journey matters more than the destination.

The previous letters combined into words are shouting that 'Trying matters more than Succeeding.'

Efforts matter more than Results.

It depends on the present scenario from where we are hearing the screaming words.

When seen from a different viewpoint, where one has to earn a livelihood based on results and not on efforts, then the entire statement above seems irrelevant.

What if teachers gave marks for attempting the answers and not getting results?

Winning is more important than Trying.

That is the reason we try.

We do not try again to fail again and then try again.

We try to win.

We invest to earn.

We work to gain.

We suffer to succeed.

We live to prosper.

Then, why do we say that journey matters more than the destination?

Why does trying become more important than winning?

Because ‘Becoming’ is more important than ‘Having’.

The seeds of efforts that we saw are bound to give fruit one day. It is the lust to eat that fruit as soon as we plant the seed that dismays the entire human race.

Trying precedes winning because it is during that phase of life we encounter tremendous opportunities to grow or give up.

If we tie our goals to the outcomes of the effort, then trying becomes an arduous task that is unable to bear any fruits.

The effort that we put in while performing the task will fail to matter in our journey to our destination. The entire journey would be rendered meaningless if we pin our hopes and happiness on reaching the desired destination.

By focusing only on the destination, we might succumb to the inertia that comes after failure to anchor us in mediocrity.

By focusing on the journey, we might inspire ourselves by what we have become rather than what we have achieved.

Chances are high that after setting some unrealistic goal based on the super-motivational quote like ‘Aim for the Moon! Even if you miss, you’ll land among stars’, we might not even make it to the Stratosphere.

In this scenario, we might chance our moon or decide to stay put on the earth, if only reaching the moon mattered the most to us.

When we focus on how far we have come, we might try again by optimizing and who knows we might land on the moon or fail in Mesosphere.

Trying is important because it keeps us in the game. If we are only there to win, then with one or a few failures, we may close our shop.

It is the struggle during the journey that gives us the opportunity to optimize ourselves and keep moving forward. The journey matters as it moulds our mindset and ironically, it is our mindset that moulds the journey.

Focus on the Journey, Destination will always be there.