# Keep Moving Forward: Trust the Process

October is here, and as I look back over the past few months, I can honestly say this Master Key Experience journey has continued to stretch me in ways I didn’t expect.

For the last several months, I’ve talked about the **cement coming off**. Some days it has felt like a little bit came off, and other days it felt like I was right back where I started. But I’m learning that just because I can’t always see the progress doesn’t mean progress isn’t happening.

*(To see what we mean by ‘cement’ read THIS BLOG POST)

Sometimes the biggest changes are happening underneath the surface.

Master Key has taught me to pay attention to my thoughts, my words, and the pictures I hold in my mind. That sounds simple until life happens and those old habits and old ways of thinking start trying to creep back in.

I’ve had moments where I’ve questioned myself, questioned my direction, and wondered if the things I’ve been working toward are really going to happen.

But I keep coming back to one thing:

**Keep moving forward.**

I don’t have to know every step before I take the next one.

That has been a big lesson for me—not just in Master Key, but in my faith. I believe God has placed dreams and desires in my heart for a reason. That doesn’t mean I know exactly how He is going to bring them to pass.

Sometimes I want the whole map.

God keeps reminding me to take the next step.

So this month, I’m choosing to keep working on my Definite Major Purpose (DMP). I’m choosing to keep building the businesses and ministry God has placed on my heart. I’m choosing to keep learning, growing, and allowing those old pieces of “cement” to fall away.

Trust the Process

And when I have a day where I feel like I haven’t made any progress?

I’m going to remind myself that **I am not where I used to be.**

That’s something worth celebrating.

As we move into another month of The Master Key Experience, I want to encourage anyone else who may be struggling with the process: **don’t quit just because you can’t see the finished picture yet.**

Keep showing up.

Keep doing the exercises.

Keep guarding your thoughts.

Keep working toward your DMP.

Keep listening.

Keep believing.

And most importantly, keep taking that next step.

The cement may not all be gone yet, but I can see more clearly than I did before.

And maybe that’s the point.

Not becoming someone completely different overnight, but becoming more of the person God created me to be—one step, one thought, one decision, and one day at a time.

**October is a new month.**

I’m still here.

I’m still growing.

I’m still believing.

And I’m still moving forward.

What about you?

What is one step you’re willing to take this month toward the life you’ve been imagining?

Don’t worry about the whole staircase.

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” Martin Luther King Jr.

**Just take the next step.**