The Peace That Came When I Released Control

I am a planner by nature. Every significant decision in my life I have researched, modeled, and prepared for extensively. Two years ago I was at a crossroads with a business I had built for six years — whether to sell, to expand, to bring in a partner. The data pointed in different directions depending on assumptions I could not verify. I was in a state of sustained anxiety that was affecting my health and relationships. One evening, after an hour of staring at spreadsheets, I did something I had not done since childhood. I knelt down and told God I did not know what to do and I was going to stop trying to control the outcome. I slept better that night than I had in months. Over the following weeks a path forward became clear in a way it had not when I was forcing it. I made the decision, which turned out to be correct. But the outcome is less important to me than what I found that night on my kitchen floor — a peace that was genuinely beyond my understanding, exactly as described.