When to Step Forward and When to Pause Throughout my life, I’ve achieved many of the things I once envisioned—not because they were guaranteed, but because I believed in them. I believed in myself. In the unseen possibility. I trusted the whisper of spirit even when the world was silent. But as I’ve deepened in awareness, I’ve come to understand a more subtle truth: the harder I’ve pushed, the more resistance I’ve created. “It has to look this way. It has to happen now. It must feel just like this.” That urgency—rooted in the mind’s idea of control—became a silent…