Becoming great at something is a process, not an event. People want it to be an event or, if it must, a short process with a guaranteed finish line for the expected results.
The truth about becoming great at anything is that most of the process is unknown. We know some of the requirements, but not all of them. We look ahead for checkpoints, but they don't go according to plan. We forecast a timeline, but it's entirely our invention. We expect experiences and lessons, but reality delivers costs and benefits we couldn't predict.
Greatness can be subjective. We aren't all measuring the same things or equally measuring our shared priorities. Much of greatness is immeasurable. It lives in the space between what we can tangibly hold. We feel it more than we touch it or see it.
It makes sense then that the path to greatness is similar. Intangibly unstable. Elusively unpredictable. More unknown than known. That may be why greatness still fascinates us because there is no single process, no reliable map to reach it.
Greatness is available to everyone but achieved only by those willing to face the unknowable process and believe, "I have what it takes, and what I don't have, I will discover and build along the way."
The time is now. Do the work.
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