Letting go of outcome and celebrating process

I feel we need to be cautious when waiting for certain things in our lives to arrive.  Patience is a part of growth, but I’m leaning towards believing that the abundance and tools necessary to do whatever I want are always here and now.  How often do we say to ourselves, “When or if this happens, I can finally do or be that”  In the meantime we sit and wait, toiling in a self-imposed purgatory, perpetually envisioning a life that might be better than the one are living every single day.  The past is gone and the future is an illusion.  The only thing real is this moment.  These desires lead to never arriving and always striving.  Though the process and the path are arguably more significant than the destination, I worry that focusing too heavily on outcome removes us from a state of contentment and happiness that was intended to be lived on this journey.  Letting go of outcome and celebrating process is what I’m trying to achieve, in part.  Stress, anxiety, and disappointment in others or our work/home environment dissolve when we make this detachment.  Recognizing the giving nature of Tao, the infinite and impartial source of love and inspiration, and the fountain of forgiveness and compassion that endlessly flows, giving perpetual birth to all that we desire, is where my heart is leading me.  The more salient point might be that we are rapidly approaching that time of year when we all start anticipating a rollover of dates on our little desk calendars, iPhones, and bottom corners of the monitors.  This date has been designated in our collective psyche as the date when things may potentially “improve”.  My question is then this: If you don’t anticipate things to truly get better until then, what do you intend on doing now?

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[The Universe]

"It's as if before you there are countless doorways, all leading to new and different hallways. So you wonder and think, calculate and stress, over whether or not you'll knock on the "right" one.

But what you can't yet see is that all of the hallways beyond all of the doorways eventually lead to the same great room, in the same great house, with the same great party.

So, may as well pick the one you want? Huh?"
The Universe

[The Small House]

“A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.”
― Carlos Castaneda