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The Best Advice I’ve Ever Received
There’s a lot of advice out there. It’s easy to get lost in it all. Maybe you find yourself heading to Google every time life throws a difficult decision at you, sifting through pages of expert opinions, research, blog posts and message boards. You’ll find endless answers, from various experts, and likely, get overwhelmed and end up right where you started.
What if looking outside of ourselves for answers is actually preventing us from getting in touch with the real answers, and the things we know deep inside?
No matter how many friends you poll, how many therapists you see, or how many life coaches you work with, none of them have access to your deepest, truest knowing. Only you do. I’m talking about your intuition, of course.
The best piece of advice I’ve ever received is to trust my gut.
Your gut, your intuition, your higher self, whatever you want to call it, has the answers you seek externally. You already know the answers. Sometimes you won’t listen. Maybe your intuition feels off after years of suppressing it, twisting yourself to be polite and likable, and putting up with gobs of bullshit in the process. Don’t feel bad, our world often discredits our gut in favor of experts, advice, politeness, social norms etc.
