Success Does Not Use a Timeline

At 34,000 feet over the Pacific, on my way to Hong Kong, I did something I rarely do — I watched a movie.
I found myself immersed in the movie “Darkest Hour,” the story of Winston Churchill during World War II.  The movie shows truly a dark period of time for the United Kingdom.  The leadership of Churchill was certainly called into question at nearly every moment during the war.  Yet we do know how it ended and how the UK did achieve success over significant odds.
As I watched the movie, it became evident to me how success doesn’t have a timeline and it doesn’t always send signals of its pending arrival. UK citizens had every reason to question what might occur, just as the people of France and elsewhere were questioning everything, too.
For Churchill, his leadership decisions carried with them grave outcomes of the loss of life, and yet he