How can I accelerate the journey?

Today, I randomly overheard an interview about launching your career as a UX designer and this question from the audience hit me:

"How can I accelerate my journey?"

What a fascinating question...

On one hand, you can't. There is no accelerating the journey. The journey is the journey. You are on the path and there's no cheat codes or warp drives.

On the other hand, there are so many things that we can do to ensure that the next step on our journey is the most efficient and effective.

• Seek guidance
• Listen deeply
• Trust and surrender
• Ask obvious and non-obvious questions
• Uplevel your environment
• Strive for mastery from a beginner's mind
• Remove attachment and expectations
• Learn from the past and the future

There's a massive challenge with this acceleration process though.

It often doesn't feel like we are going faster at all.

It's can feel more like taking a step backward to take 4 steps ahead. Listening, for example, is very passive. When we listen without attachment, it might be a lengthy process and probably not feel like acceleration at all. And yet, it could be the key to unlocking everything.

This is some Jedi Master level stuff. If you are trying to force acceleration, it won't happen and will actually probably slow you down. When you trust that the journey is unfolding exactly as designed, you will be more open to the opportunities that are hidden in plain sight.