It's about the journey?

I am very goal-orientated, I enjoy setting goals and giving everything I have to reach them. I always keep the goal in front of me, certain that it is the motivation that I need to keep going. This last little while I have spent quite a bit of time reflecting on how I have changed over the past year or two and where I am going in the next little while. The way that I am thinking is changing, for the better. I have learned to live in the moment and appreciate where I am and what I am doing. My mentor always used to say to me, "It's about the journey, Robyn" and I would think 'what about my next belt?'. I figured that I would get IT when I got to my next color of belt, I didn't. I am not even sure when I started to change or when I stopped looking forward and started looking in the here and now. I am different though, I feel different, I am more aware of what is happening around me, I approach life in a completely different way. I try to learn from each and every encounter that I have everyday and I try to take in new information and figure out a way to use it (instead of dismissing it as something I don't know about).
Being part of the UBBT and embracing the journey that I am on has changed/enhanced every part of me. It is not any one thing, it is all the things (challenges, assignments, goals, support). I knew this would be one of the greatest things that I ever took part in, but I just didn't realize how big it would be until now.