Listen To Yourself

You saw it coming. You FELT it coming. You even had a thought about it. And you didn’t do anything about it.

And now you’re beating yourself up because it’s all gone haywire. (Don’t do that, sweetheart.)

Let me explain.

When you look back on what’s gone awry and see the mess or the experience that could have been averted, you feel something. That’s good.

That feeling is on your side. (Don’t try to ignore it or push it away.)

It’s there with a very simple lesson. (And once you learn it, it’ll stop harassing you.)

What’s the lesson?

The lesson is…

You actually know what to do. Listen to the signals you’re receiving and take action on them.

You foresaw this (whatever you’re ruminating about now) coming and you didn’t want it to happen, and yet it did.

How’d it happen? You didn’t listen to yourself.

Here’s a simple analogy:

• You see a glass sitting in a precarious position.
• You think (in a vaguely conscious way) I should move that. I should do something about that before it breaks.
• You don’t.
• It falls. it breaks.
• You say to yourself…damn, I had that thought and I didn’t do anything, WTF?

This happens all the time. We don’t take action on what we know to be the right course for us.

Why?

For various reasons. Sometimes we don’t see how. Sometimes we’re afraid of offending other people. Sometimes we plan to and our timing is just off. There are so many reasons.

And when it’s the bigger stuff that goes awry, especially in your business, it feels a lot more catastrophic than a broken glass.

But now what?

Now that it happened, you can see that your internal guidance system was telling you to do something. And that’s GOOD!

Next time to note that.

Remember that those thoughts in the beginning… the ones that were saying “this is not happening! this is not working out! this is so f’d up!”

Those thoughts are really there to point you in the direction of changing the situation, of picking up the glass and repositioning so it doesn’t crash into a million pieces that you have to clean up later.

Listen. Take notice. Act. (And somewhere between noticing and acting, remember to check for alignment. Always.)