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When life feels stuck, stop trying to fix it
Clarity doesn’t come from control. It comes from surrender.

Most people don’t realize this:
The harder you try to fix your life, the more stuck you feel.
Not because action is bad.
But because most action is just fear in disguise.
You don’t actually want clarity.
You want control.
You want to micromanage the outcome.
You want to guarantee safety.
You want to avoid the unknown by thinking your way into certainty.
So you spiral.
You make another list.
Start another course.
Tweak your routine.
Build another 90-day plan.
And underneath all of it is one core wound:
“If I don’t do something now, I’ll fall behind.”
But here’s the truth:
You’re not behind.
You’re just in a season where force won’t work.
Because this isn’t a problem to solve.
This is a space to feel.
A threshold to cross.
An identity to shed.
There’s a version of you that built your entire life on control.
On hyper-productivity.
On always being the one with a plan.
But this next level requires something else:
Stillness.
Surrender.
Honest self-trust.
Not the performance of it.
The real thing.
The kind of trust that doesn’t need proof.
That doesn’t rush clarity.
That doesn’t panic in the pause.
When life feels stuck, try this:
Don’t fix.
Don’t force.
Feel.
Let the clarity come through you, not from you.
Because clarity isn’t created.
It’s remembered.
And you can’t remember what’s true if you’re still trying to control what happens next.
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