It's not about the results. It's about the journey.
A few weeks ago, my mother came to visit me to Hamburg. It was an amazing time with her, because since I moved to Germany, we had never spent so much time together. After so many talks, one day my mom asked me something that I hadn’t questioned myself: What would you like to achieve with Mármol? My answer was, “I would love to make it work and someday making it my job” but the truth is, before saying that I was blank for a couple of minutes.
Until last year, my main focus was on selling. I set ambitious goals; I wanted to sell 60 soaps in a month, and for Christmas, I wanted to go to the Christmas market and sell 100 soaps in one day.
After launching my offer of the 60 soaps, I realized that I wouldn’t sell them as quickly as I thought, and worse yet, my idea of selling 100 soaps for Christmas would turn into a big failure.
When you start a small business, you want everything to work quickly, and you believe that everything will go faster, of course. there are cases that it works, but the truth is that successful cases in the short term are very few.
We get used to setting big goals and putting all our energy into the final result. This leads to great frustrations or worse, a feeling that when you finally achieve that goal, there is nothing else to do.
We forget that the most important thing is your purpose and enjoy the entire process because even if you don’t believe it, there is a lot of growth and maturation in between.
These last few weeks have been revealing for me.
After about a year clouded with Mármol, I am finally returning to the origin of everything, returning to my purpose, and I feel that everything is lighter and has a meaning.
At the end of the day, it’s not about “running a marathon”; it’s about becoming a runner. It’s not about “publishing a book”; it’s about becoming a writer. It’s not about “having a Michelin-starred restaurant”; it’s about being a chef, and to become a runner, writer, or chef, you will probably have to meet small daily milestones that will be easier to achieve than that “big goal” you want to accomplish.
Ari.