Which stress do you choose?

Knowing you are meant to do, have, or be something and then just simply hoping that it happens is stressful becuase you give your personal power away.

Knowing you are meant to do, have, or be something and taking small actions toward it each moment is stressful becuase you experience the intensity of your personal power.

Both choices are stressful, yet the former is the unfulfilling stress of stagnation and the latter is the life-giving stress of metamorphosis.

Both have an upside and a downside. Which upside and downside do you choose?