The Super Power of Trusting Your Gut

You glance at the restaurant menu and spot the dish you want right away. Your friends begin chatting about what they’d like to try and what was good last time. After hearing them discuss the options, you change your mind based on their thoughts or recommendations. Flash forward to the end of the meal, and regretfully, you wish you had ordered what you knew you wanted from the moment you sat down. You should have trusted your gut.  

There’s a super-power in the simplicity of having confidence in the decisions you make – whether as important as choosing where to live or as low-risk as choosing what to eat for dinner. In every facet of life, we oftentimes begin with ‘how they did it last time’ or by asking everyone we know ‘what should I do?’ before making a decision. And while there’s certainly merit in the guidance of others, we often become paralyzed by other people’s thoughts and opinions instead of trusting that we know what the right decision is – for ourselves.  You know yourself better than anyone, so why do you think you need a slew of external influences to tell you what you should do ?

Most likely, you already know exactly what you want. You consult other people and ‘phone a friend’ and make everything more complicated, but if you know and trust who you are, you know what you want, and most likely, it’s the same thing you’ve wanted/needed from the start. 

The super power of trusting your gut is nurtured through the practice of having the innate confidence to make your own decisions, mundane, bold or otherwise -- regardless of what other people say or think. Are you okay with that?