About a year ago, I was gifted an opportunity. An opportunity to change jobs. From my gut, it was a no brainer, I’d be crazy not to do it, but my gut wasn’t the only one that had a say in the matter. Never mind my apparent schizophrenia, but my brain began to chime in saying this change is BIG. I couldn’t give up stability and predictability. This change was a silly thing to even be considering.

My brain and my gut do a great job of being rational and intuitive respectively.

Intuition is a funny thing. From time to time I have trouble trusting my intuition. The fear associated with being wrong because of a “feeling” is tough to stomach. If I trust my intuition and I make a decision based on that intuition and it turns out to give me a result I didn’t set out for, wasn’t my intuition wrong?

Fast forward almost a year now and I have no idea if my choice was “right” or “wrong” in the context of the “right way”. What I have discovered is, my intuition was pulling me towards what I really wanted. What I really wanted at the time was the thrill of the unknown, of creating something new with incredible people, of the creativity associated with figuring out a new life rhythm, and of self-discovery. I was so wrapped up in the result of my choice being “right” or “wrong” that I was unable to see my intuition for what it was truly urging me to do.

I want to thank my rational brain for drawing roots into the ground to keep me from flowing along with every tiny breeze that comes my way AND I want to check in with myself when I do feel that intuition tugging; Why is it tugging? What is it actually tugging at? Where and what do I do with this discovery?

Not every spark of intuition is going to culminate into a major life shift. Gracefully, my intuition won out and I am doings things now I could never have rationally told myself I would be doing a year ago.

I invite you to spend some time entertaining those pulls of intuition. Your gut knows a lot more about what you need than you think.