Setbacks rarely arrive without warning. Most of the time, there are small signals first. A delay that becomes a pattern. A priority that keeps getting pushed aside. A growing sense that you’re reacting instead of moving intentionally. These signals are easy to ignore because they don’t feel urgent. Nothing appears broken yet. Progress hasn’t stopped completely. But drift has begun. A simple check can prevent that drift from turning into a setback. Pause long enough to ask where your attention has gone this week. Not where you intended it to go, but where it actually went. That distinction matters. Alignment lives in behavior, not intention. Once you see the gap,…