This post is inspired by an interesting piece I read on my dear friend Azra's blog, which can be found here.
Every so often, when confronted with decisions, we find ourselves torn between what our heads tell us to do and what our hearts tell us to do; and sometimes our instinct is the shining beacon of light helping us make that decision. Except, being the blundering bumbling fools that we are, we choose to ignore this 6th sense to our own peril.
My Gran always said that the nagging voice inside each of us, guiding us and telling us what to do when confronted with decisions, are in fact the Angels usually found perched on our shoulders.
If I look back on some of the decisions I've made in life, and scored those made after much pondering against those made by virtue of gut instinct, I have a sneaky suspicion that the perched Angels would win by a landslide.
Sometimes we stay when we should go.
Sometimes we go when we should stay.
Sometimes our instinct taps gently , and sometimes it screams out loudly.
We make hundreds of decisions every day, and as a forex trader I'm making them in split seconds.
We need to silence the noise and listen more intently to that inner voice within each of us. Maybe it won't help me find the path to financial success, but I'm pretty sure it will help me trust myself a little more, believe in myself a little more, and feel like I'm more in control of my destiny.
My revised Bucket List should read "Trust your instinct more often."
Everything after that will simply be an affirmation of my faith in the process.
And if anything else, at least that inner voice, your instinct, will help make a decision that you're at ease and comfortable with... no matter the consequences...
ReplyDeleteBingo! I'd rather live with a decision I made that I was completely comfortable with at the time, then one made that left me feeling uncertain.
ReplyDeleteI can only echo the both of you. So often I do things that I feel like I am supposed to do, even when they don't feel right. It never fails that I regret it later. Learning to trust that voice inside you is so difficult once you've been told so often to ignore it. I need to make a change!
ReplyDeleteI think there's a lesson there Angie. We should never allow our kids to accept that silencing that inner voice is acceptable. A good place to start would be not allowing ourselves to silence that inner voice.
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