Not every change is growth. Some changes are just running from something. Ask which one you’re doing.

Movement and progress can look identical from outside. New school, new group, new plan: all of it reads as forward motion, and some of it is a way of leaving a problem in the room you walked out of. The test is not how different your life looks but whether the thing you were avoiding came along.

Before you change something big, write one sentence about what you are heading toward and one about what you are getting away from. Both can be honest. If only the second sentence fills in, slow down.