You can’t transform what you keep at arm’s length. Real change only happens when you fully inhabit where you are, not where you wish to be. The obsession with constant goal-setting, with “what’s next,” keeps us from absorbing the lessons right in front of us.

Until we learn what this moment is here to teach, we’ll keep looping through the same patterns. Progress isn’t blocked by circumstance, but by our refusal to engage with the present.

Most people resist their current reality, not because they’re lazy, but because they overreach. They want to leap forward without first taking the next small step, often the only one truly available. But power lives there: in using the space we’re in and the opportunities it presents, however small or inconvenient they seem.

Every encounter holds purpose. Not one is more important than another. If we treat people or situations as “not good enough,” what we’re really saying is we are not enough. That belief is false. We are each here by divine design. Healing will sometimes hurt but so does staying stuck.

Only those willing to face the moment they’re in, with full presence and humility, will move beyond it.