Trust the Process is a phrase I use as an anchor when working with clients on transformative work.
Just over five weeks ago I finished the “insurance” chemo I undertook after my colon cancer surgery. Yesterday I did “Ride 7” since getting back on the bike a few weeks ago. Added to this, I have restarted Pilates equipment training and the combination of both is helping me recover my fitness.
As I rode with my riding buddy the “Flying Pancake”, I noted that I felt the strength coming back to my legs. I found I could power up some short hills that I couldn’t on earlier recovery rides, plus I could maintain higher speeds on the flat sections. There is a phrase in training on the bike that a big part of it is simply “getting miles in your legs”, that you simply need to get on the bike and ride and the fitness will come. Much though I am a convert to structured training, I am not ready to restart that yet, so simply getting the miles/km in my legs is, and I feel it with each successive ride, rebuilding my stamina and my strength.
“Trust the Process” is a phrase I often use as an anchor when working with clients on transformative work for themselves, and for their business. The biggest changes are often those that we tend to shy away from, as such change can involve complexity, uncertainty and discomfort. However, when we trust the process, when we are patient as we know that the change will come, then what always happens is that day by day, we see the change happening. What is most wonderful is that once the change is fully imagined and completed, we look back at where we were before and give thanks for the radical change we have seen.
As I got on the bike for the first time about a month ago, the idea of losing the 10kg of “chemo weight” and of feeling fit enough for long and strong rides, it all seemed a long, long way off. It still is, but, seven rides into the journey, I see small changes and I trust the process.