But, change is also process, not an just an event

"Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a year, and
underestimate what they can achieve in ten."
- Anthony Robbins (I think)

I've just said that Change happens in a moment.  However, that change that
happens in the moment, is only the beginning.  To experience significant,
lasting change in your circumstances and your experience, you have to be
willing to engage in a systematic process of change.

There was a time when thinking about change, tended to mostly bring two
images to my mind.  Firstly, the way I wanted things to be, and secondly, the
way things were now.  Most of the time, these two pictures were so far
removed from each other, that after a few weeks of trying to think of how to
make the changes I wanted in my life, I would give up.

That was until I discovered the power of growth, or process, if you prefer a
less organic term.  I began to realize that between the way things are today,
and the way things will be in the future, there was effectively an infinite
amount of images.  Just like we haven't yet learnt to beam ourselves from
one place to the other, like Mr. Scott and co., so we cannot expect our lives
to simply suddenly change.  

Yes, it could happen that you win the Lotto, or you inherit a fortune, or
something like that.  But it is the rare exception.  You don't have to be a
master statistician to realize that these things happen to a very small
minority of people.

The way most of us change our lives, is through incremental changes.

Realizing this, means that I can begin to create a process of systematically
changing myself and my environment, and in this way, step by step, getting
closer and closer to what I want.

And here is one of the nuggets of happiness that I discovered along the way
as I started practicing this:

Growing, is one of the most fulfilling experiences we can ever go
through.

Our environments are influenced by what we do to them.  The things we
say, and the things we do, impact our environment.  The things we say and
do, are the results of the thoughts we think.  The thoughts we think are the
result of who we are, and who we are is a combination of who we see
ourselves to be, who we think others see us to be, and who we believe we
can become.

So I'd begun to realize that the process of improving anything in my
environment, e.g. my work, my financial situation, my relationships with
people - whatever I want to change - this process must start with a process
of a change inside of me.  And this process of self-improvement, is what I
like to call growth.  I've discovered that growing yourself into the type of
person that can solve the problem, is a much more satisfying way to live,
than to keep focusing on the problem.  

I've discovered that the process of growing into the person I need to be to
achieve certain goals, is more enjoyable than the event of eventually
achieving the goal.  This is a very significant discovery, because most of our
lives consist not of moments of achievements, but of getting to the moments
of achievements.  

Learning to enjoy the process, means a much larger part of your life is
actually enjoyable.  If you are hating every moment of the process of trying
to achieve some goal, and you think that once you "get there," then life will
be better, you are likely to be disappointed.  
Some More Thoughts on Change