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Date: 2026-04-27 Tags: spirituality - life path
Avoiding your intended path and how much it is costing you
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I know exactly what path i should follow, yet I keep resisting it. Every other road I try leads me back to the same intersection.
The cost is becoming a worse version of myself every single day I delay walking my intented path.
For a while now, my core advice to anyone at a crossroads has been simple: Follow your intuition. Dive into the resistance. Do what you would do if fear and doubt weren’t in the room.
Every real breakthrough in my life came from following exactly that, yet here I am, giving this advice to others while ignoring it myself.
There’s a story in the Bible that come in mind when i was thinking about why i am resisting change. In that story God tells Jonah to go to Nineveh. Jonah boards a ship headed in the opposite direction. A storm follows.
That’s been my life recently.
Call it God, call it intuition, call it a higher power, but something has been pointing me toward a specific path for a long time.
As a kid, I started a blog for fun before life pulled me away. When I realized I want to work for myself, I was naturally drawn to writing again, but money was the driver back then, so I started an e-commerce brand instead. Maybe just like the boy in The alchemist, i had to complete a sub-quest (building the financial foundation) before graduating to the next level (possibly creating from a place of abundance rather than necessity).
Looking back it all makes sense, just as Steve Jobs said you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
But honestly, I completed the financial sub-quest almost a year ago.
I just didn’t want to accept my path might not be to build the next Amazon or Blackrock. So I pushed harder on the brand, even though I knew more effort wouldn’t move the needle.
I suspected i should chill, do more inner work and write about it online, but i resisted the change, because I didn’t believe I was enough. Enough to just be myself, and pursue what pulls me, even if it doesn’t make money.
And as a consequence, I found myself in a deep rut, burnt out, depressed, and unable to get out by following the usual “best-practices” playbook.
The resistance to follow my intuition and calling didn’t protect me. It punished me.
I can’t justify intuition or calling with logic, and I’ve made peace with that.
The pull I feel right now, toward reflecting more and writing about it online, is the same pull I felt before I launched my first D2C brand. Following it back then turned out to be right. I felt at my best, and it worked. That feeling faded over a year ago, and I’ve wanted it back ever since.
So even if I can’t logically justify it, when the pull is consistent, repeated, and impossible to argue away, I’ll trust it. The alternative, continuing to resist, has a very clear and documented cost.
What I’m changing practically: I’m going to share my story. The things I know I should do but keep resisting. Honest reflections on what happened and how it changed me. Real decisions, real consequences, real insights turned into advice I actually live by. I’ll write from my own perspective, never from authority. If someone doesn’t connect with it, they simply don’t see where I’m coming from. That’s fine.
How I’ll know it’s working: Am I writing and publishing consistently? Do I feel that same aliveness I felt before launching my first brand? If yes, I’m on the right path. If I drift back into chasing output to justify my existence, I’m not.
The takeaway: The storm doesn’t follow you because you’re unlucky. It follows you because you’re on the wrong ship.