How to trust your gut.

I was at the climbing gym with a friend this past weekend, and he was catching me up on his life. He and his wife have two young children, and they are in the midst of making decisions about where to send their kids to school.

He was telling me that they have agreed not to tell their parents where they plan to send their kids because they knew from experience that they’d get lots of unsolicited feedback on their choice.

It’s not that they don’t appreciate the input from well-intentioned loved ones, but when making a big decision, getting more opinions is usually less helpful than it sounds.

I’m a big fan of feedback and mentors, and coaches and collaboration. But there is also a fine line to walk here. At some point, we have to learn to listen to our intuition about what is best for us.

We need to learn to trust ourselves and have confidence in the fact that we do the work in order to trust our decision-making ability.

We all tend to seek external points to orient off of. We use other people’s playbooks and maps for navigating work and life. But what happens when we start to navigate this stuff more intuitively?

I know that if I do a few things consistently, then I can trust my intuition. Things like meditating, journaling, having a coach in my life, getting exercise, and eating relatively healthy food.

If I do these things, I can rely on my mind and body to lead me down the right path!