Perhaps it’s a skill that is honed or perhaps I unconsciously trained out that feeling in my stomach for many years. 3 times this year, my gut told me I was doing the wrong thing. 3 times this year, it’s intuition proved right and I’ve paid the price.
I’ve learnt to listen to my gut on many a small decision. Over the past couple of years, I’ve learnt that my gut gives me a signal if it feels the food on the plate isn’t right. It’s also serves as a lovely early warning system for an experience or person. Again, unerringly right.
But, when it comes to bigger or longer term decisions, I’ve been consciously overriding it with thought. Most times my thoughts agree with my gut and perhaps I’m faced with a recency bias as I write this; but I can’t recall a single big decision in the past year where my gut has been wrong in making a decision.
In one instance, it’s been repeatedly telling me an engagement doesn’t feel right. It’s high time I learnt to listen to it.
A Learning a Day 