Make it happen!

You hear it a lot. And it's generally good advice, of course. At least the 'happen' part.

You definitely want things to happen. But often times, it's the 'make' part that gets confused for progress.

You can push a ball uphill, but should you? Not only does it take a ton of effort, you can't really see what's over the edge until you get to the top of the hill. So you use all this effort to just find out if it was even worth the push to find out.

Contrast this with starting at the top and letting the ball roll downhill. Rather than make things happen, you let things happen. The hill, in this case, is the process, the team, the environment you've built to allow things to happen gracefully. To glide, not grind. To roll into a view you can see, with the gravity you get for free.

That's the way. Less force, more momentum.