Success is a Journey, not a Destination

For the wholistic tennis player, how one performs an activity is more important than the activity or the result of the activity itself. Consequently, it is essential to set process-oriented goals for ourselves for two reasons:
1. The only reality exists in the now (a combination of past, present and future). The past has come and gone and is an unreliable memory, while the future is something yet to be. Neither exists! The process is now based, while the result is future based.
2. Only the process is within our control, the result is out of our hands. By projecting our desires into the future we try to create a future we want or think we need. By focusing on the process we learn to accept an outcome we have no control over and in the process we surrender to forces beyond our control and perhaps have imposed on us lessons that need to be learned of which we had no conscious knowledge.
Result-oriented goals like winning of playing well, to name the most common, are outcome goals. It is important to realize that we have no direct control over these outcome goals, we may desire to win or play well and certainly we can try our very best for those eventualities to materialize, but we can not guarantee them. Since, we can not; it seems pointless to expend any energy focusing on the result.
Courtesy – Happy Bhalla