Does either of these two scenarios sound familiar to you?

You come across a very important situation that can affect you that seems like a “golden opportunity.” Your heart is pounding with excitement and your mind is racing a million miles a second with all of these wonderful positive thoughts.

Conversely, you come across a situation that can affect you that seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. In this situation you have a knot in your stomach and that nagging voice inside that says something is “out of place.”

What did you do in either of these two situations?

How did you handle them. Did you “trust your gut” or did you say, “the heck with it, I’ll give it a try anyway?”

What were the outcomes for you in either of these two situations?

While certain situations you come across will be more important than others, every situation still affects in some way how your life plays out.

With that being said, my question to you is…

“How often do you listen to yourself?”

Another way to say this is, how often do you listen to your intuition?

It is interesting to note that your intuition is right 100% of the time.

Now you may be thinking, “well if that is the case then how come I sometimes make decisions that at the time seemed like a good idea, but didn’t turn out the way I expected?”

Great question!

The answer is, because you may have most likely been making an emotional decision rather than an intuitive decision…

And there is a difference.

You’ll make an intuitive decision when you take into account that every person and situation has two sides to them. When you truly realize that no matter what decision you make has a positive and negative attached to it, you’re well on your way to making those “right” decisions.

If you are making decisions that are very highly emotional, positive or negative, but especially positive, you have a high probability of having the negative outcome you don’t want to show up in your life.

So when it comes to listening to yourself in making any decision, it is wise to make those decisions from a poised state of mind.

One thing that is absolutely certain in your life is the fact that you have the answers to whatever challenge you’re looking to overcome and the outcome you want to achieve.

What keeps people stuck from truly living the type of life they’d love to live are the questions they ask.

In other words, it’s all about coming up with the right question at the right time that is specific to your situation.

Remember, the quality of your life is based on the quality of the questions you ask.

Asking the right questions and knowing that the answer has both a positive and negative outcome equally will allow you to listen to yourself more because, like we said earlier, your intuition is right 100% of the time, and this in turn will guide you through your life’s journey in a much healthier and wealthier way.

As a result you’ll also realize your own inner brilliance.

And you’ll also see just how important of a person you really are and how much of a difference you make in the world.

 

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