Intuition – Your Compass For Doing The Right Thing

Intuition is that silent voice from the heart that tells you what you should be doing. It is an inner voice, not so loud and clear. Our mind speaks louder than the heart – which is why we often ignore our gut feeling, intuition or whatever else we may call it.

A few years back, as an amateur project manager, I was managing a project in its critical stage. At one point during the project, I “felt” (only for a moment) that I should inform the client about the impending problems. But the mind had a different agenda. Mind quickly said that I should not speak it up – else client may back fire and create more problems. Mind took over the heart and I kept working through the current challenges. Later that week, when I went to my senior colleague for guidance, he asked me to inform client about the impending problems.

“I did feel once that I should inform the client”, I said.

“You should have listened to your gut feeling.”, my colleague advised.

I knew I had made a mistake by ignoring my gut feeling. Our intuition is our compass and sometimes, simply following your intuition is the best thing you can do.

Our mind is “trained” to do things in a prescribed way and follow the rules. Intuition follows no rules, it just tells you the right thing. If we always follow our mind, we get stuck in too much of analysis, too much of reliance on our past decisions, too much of rules. Following your intuition then is the only way to be remarkable, to be different and to be right!

Bottomline: In our quest for progress, we rush through our decisions. We work in a haste. Listening to your gut feeling demands that you slow down, cut through the noise of your mind and listen your inner compass. And then follow it!