Life is a process

People often stare at me funny when I try to explain what I do.  I obviously haven't hit on the right thing to say yet.  For those in the know, you can spurt out words like Workflow, BPM, and add a few of the methodologies for mapping processes and quality assurance.  Yet I want to get to the essence of what it is, the universal truth in it.

And there I go, sounding sappy :)

You see, we are a process.  Everything we do is a process.  I just had a baby nine days ago, and from the time I found out I was pregnant, I basically knew what I was in for.  Approximately 40 weeks, probably sickness, a lot of pain at the end.  Every baby book you skim through has the essence of this... this is a process.

So, why is it so hard to describe what I do if we live and breath process every day.  Much of what we read is a process.  If you were in my shoes, what would you say?  And how would you say it?  How do we hit this nail on the head?