I used to pray about things I wasn’t making space for. I would ask God for clarity, direction, even favor — and then close my notebook… without changing anything about how I lived my week. I hoped for growth, but didn’t protect time. I prayed for wisdom, but avoided the discipline. I asked God to move, while staying comfortably still. And slowly, I realized something humbling: Faith wasn’t missing. Follow-through was.

Last year, one of my goals was to learn more about AI and AI agents. And to be honest, at first, I did learn — mostly by relying on TikTok’s algorithm. Videos popped up on my For You Page, the right topics found me, and I absorbed bits and pieces along the way. It was helpful… but passive.

Let’s talk about goals. When I was planning to launch Kayasah House, I was knee-deep in renovations — dust everywhere, timelines shifting, things breaking faster than they were being fixed. I knew the goal was to launch… but for a long time, it stayed vague. The moment I put an actual date on the calendar for our open house, everything changed. It suddenly became real. The goal moved from intention to commitment. That’s the difference between a simple objective and a SMART goal.