{"id":23403,"date":"2018-12-14T20:11:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T20:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?p=23403"},"modified":"2018-12-14T20:11:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T20:11:45","slug":"trust-the-process-and-let-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/trust-the-process-and-let-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust The Process and Let Go!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where has the time gone? No, really?!<\/span><\/p>\n

23 rotations around the sun, 18 years of schooling, and thousands of google searches later…I still know nothing, and that\u2019s perfectly fine. But somehow, each year, I see myself growing in ways that\u2019d often seemed foreign, farfetch, and illusive. Along the way, i\u2019ve learned to continually trust the process and let go. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Trust the Process.<\/b><\/p>\n

\"\"As 2018 closes, the importance of growth, self realization, and exploring the unknown becomes more and more apparent to my journey through life. Think of trusting the process as a foundational piece to each form of growth. In order to fully immerse within current professional and mental states, becoming\u00a0<\/span>confident in accepting the good, the bad, and many\u00a0<\/span>detours along th<\/span>e way is necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n

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By trusting the process, I took myself out of my comfort zone, earned placement into Challenge Detroit, and took on a huge role as project manager within my host company. As stressful as it has been, accepting each piece of the process has gained me both technical and life skills that i\u2019d otherwise not experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Challenge Detroit Orientation Week<\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Take a moment:<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      • Be resilient, be in the moment, and believe in yourself!<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Embrace ambiguity.<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Don\u2019t allow the detours to become roadblocks. Reposition, reevaluate, and approach each obstacle as a challenge you\u2019re ready to solve.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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        Let Go. <\/b><\/p>\n

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        Walled Lake Outdoor Education Center<\/p><\/div>\n

        Until this year, I never truly knew what it meant to let go. Crazy right, it seems so simple. The very<\/span>moment I becam<\/span>e cautious of my resistance to fully let go is the day I decided to climb\u00a0<\/span>a suspended platfo<\/span><\/p>\n

        rm, step to the edge of that same platform, and in 1…2\u2026.3 jump! After beginning to climb, I wondered why the hell I would agree to do something so crazy! Why would Challenge Detro<\/span><\/p>\n

        it\u2019s orientation week push fellows to do this of all things?! Heart racing, moments l<\/span>ater, my mind went blank.<\/p>\n

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        Walled Lake Outdoor Education Center<\/p><\/div>\n

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        Attached to a rope and extending outward to a beam within the air, I opened my mind to the new direction my career was heading and learned to trust the factors of life that I can not control. I watched my tight grip of control loosen and open up to the lessons ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n

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        • Take a moment:<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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            • Become \u00a0intentional and open to new experiences.. <\/span><\/li>\n
            • Ask lots of questions. There\u2019s so much to know!<\/span><\/li>\n
            • Don\u2019t be afraid to try new things.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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              Trus<\/span>ting the process and letting go has truly opened my eyes to the knowledge and opportunity that surrounds me. Forever grateful, I hope you too find the provided tips helpful and grow with me along the way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              Where has the time gone? No, really?! 23 rotations around the sun, 18 years of schooling, and thousands of google searches later…I still know nothing, and that\u2019s perfectly fine. But somehow, each year, I see myself growing in ways that\u2019d often seemed foreign, farfetch, and illusive. Along the way, i\u2019ve learned to continually trust the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}