Human beings are complex creatures that make many different choices.  Somewhere, beneath the choices themselves, is the desire to get something out of them. In fact, whether or not you consciously realize it, multiple motives diverge and coalesce.

Let's say your soul is like the centre of your being where all your feelings intersect.   Although you have different layers of awareness that are not all aware of each other, at soul level, you have deep awareness of everything that is going on at the same time. This is your control centre that is accessed as you evolve to heighten your soul awareness.

It has been said that each person teaches the self to repress feelings in order to learn to decode them.  That's right! You hide feelings from yourself in order to teach yourself lessons, so many in fact, that you aren't consciously aware of all the progress you make.

What all this means is that you can choose to value subtle progress. Certain kinds of learning are more obvious than others.  You may tend to feel good when you recognize you have stretched or expanded yourself.  Realize that what you consciously notice differs from the big picture.  You are developing in more ways than you follow and readily sense or acknowledge.  You have more to learn and can value 'the seen and unseen.'