Posts Tagged ‘Intuition’

Are you on the right path? Should you quit or stick it out? Are you frustrated thinking you’re working and working and, yet, not accomplishing anything? Should you keep going…persevere? Or, would it be better to give up. Maybe the universe is giving you a sign that you’re going in the wrong direction.

Well, those are questions that have come to my mind recently…and, frequently as I pursue my entrepreneurial path and financial goals. I get up each morning with a well-defined “to do” list. I accomplish each of those tasks and cross them off one by one. I get up Read the rest of this entry »

I wanted to share a story that I read today. The story has to do with the gift of listening…

“Decades ago the editors of Psychology Today magazine staged an experiment to establish the effects of listening and asking easy, probing questions. Staff members flew to LAX from New York. The editor flew in later, with the intention of meeting his seatmate and getting to know him on the five-hour flight. For the duration of the flight, the Psychology Today editor asked questions and listened. He asked more questions based on what he felt his seatmate wanted to talk more about, and avoided areas he felt he didn’t. His total “purpose for being” during the five hours, was to have the conversation be all about his seatmate.

As suspected, throughout the flight the seatmate never asked anything about the editor, not even his name. Read the rest of this entry »

Complaining about my nine to five is normal. So is going to church on the weekends and having my apple pie with cheddar cheese. Dreading speaking in front of an audience seems normal, too. But which of these things are normal and which are natural? How is one to decide? The line between them is fine and is hard to see. Interpretations and personal beliefs cloud the two. Doing things that are accepted as “normal” are not always “natural” and may not always be the right choice. It’s important to take time to understand what is right because it’s normal, and what we should do differently to become more aligned with our nature. There are some guidelines to get us moving in the right direction.

Normal comes with a tendency to do things because Read the rest of this entry »