Your intuition ascends from a feeling within yourself that only you can experience. Since this feeling is so personal, nobody besides you can weigh in on it; this is only your instinct and not someone else’s. You alone have to make the determination. Because of this, trusting your intuition is the ultimate act of trusting yourself.
As mortal beings we trust our instinct when we think the options might be better. But to be without them would be less than favorable. When we are confronted with decisions, we follow our intuition without really understanding why. As we listen to our intuition, we let our brains derive to a conclusion. While intuition may seem to ascend from within our inward source, it is rooted in our brains to collect and store information. However, over time, our brain links more patterns and stores knowledge in our long term memory. There was an article that was written by Alden M. Hayashi,” When to Trust Your Gut” (pp. 169-187) suggests that our emotions and feelings might not only be important in our intuitive ability to make good decisions but may actually be essential. (p.169). We can completely identified, absorb, and experience, to some degree, how our instinctive feelings responds to change and resistance, but also ensuring us with the intention of making a good choice, one must be able to trust their intuition. Our instinct feelings may not always point you us in the right direction, but it can be the first step in decision making. So listen to your intuition instead of sweeping them aside.
Summary
Using your intuition to make decisions by listening aides in how your body and emotion will reacts. What makes someone weak? Fear. Fear in your life could be understood and managed once you learn to be aware of when fear is being triggered. It can happen in your vocation and life on a daily basis. We are seeing, hearing, feeling, and smelling far more information than we are aware of. Our instinct feelings vary from person to person, allowing unexplainable messages to come into our life by guiding us to take action in a direction that is true and unique. And sometimes we will make choice outside of the directions we are receiving from our intuition.
Compare Your Experience
Recently, I had to sphere headed a selection process in hiring a new person to our project team. I was tasked with interviewing the best qualified individual to fulfill this vacant position. The person selected would be one of my direct reports and with this being my first “unaccompanied interview”, typically our Human Resource personnel would participate or be a part of the hiring panel of selectors, and because this was my first, I really wanted the interviews to go great. We reviewed the resumes, individually and collectively, in preparation for the interview sessions. There were three potential candidates whose names had been forwarded to me for our review. Only two appeared to merit serious consideration, although for different reasons. One applicant seemed to be very impressive on paper; but did not convey/sale themselves very well during the interview process. This applicant appeared to be extremely stressed out about leaving their current position understaffed; without giving them at least three months’ notice. However, this applicant show stability and had been in their current role for (5 plus years), reasoning for sudden change was no upward mobility / no advancement. There was no sign of being appreciated or any recognition that had been placed in their personnel files. This candidate exhibited several attributes and transferable skills that I rank highly in identifying a potentially employee. However, there was also a former employee who knew the job very well and had been filling the role on a temporary basis; but was in a contractor – which came with another set of requirements and deliverable to the contracting firm. However, this candidate did have the transferable skills; but was not consistent with work task and deliverables; and occasionally failed to pay attention to details. Nevertheless, this was the one we had to select due to their ability to jump right in and not requiring training. However, I am at odds with my supervisor in regards to reprimanding this person due to missed deliverable and other issues. Based on all the red tape you must go through and procedures that are in place to save someone job with Human Resource it is near impossible to ever fire anyone at the Bank. Needless to say, if I would have followed my instinct, I would not be writing about this situation and would have hired someone else. For this reason it is important for us to be aware of your instinct and how act upon them when appropriate.
What I Learned
Emotion is a subject that is not taught to us by our parents or school. When emotions get in the way, we are told to get over it, forgive, let it go, and learn to control our anger. It has been known that our thoughts, emotions and the way we feel, influence our bodies. Feeling good, thinking positive and being enthusiastic have a positive effect on the body; whereas negative thinking can prolonged stress. We have experience and expressed different emotions every day. Each emotion has a unique characteristic, which is expressed when triggered by certain perceptions, people, situations and incidences. How we deal and respond to this determines and sometimes dictates our emotions with decision making. Yet, if we understand and manage our emotions, this could be the key to maintaining a healthy and happy life.
Conclusion
There are many persons from all walks of life who follow their instinct feelings when making decisions every day. It may not be the best decision from an outside individual looking in but to them it is. You can trust your instinct to lead you to help make a right or wrong decision. It is easier to go with an instinct feeling when you have several options or solutions on the table. If your emotional get in the way of any decision making, you should walk away or remove yourself from the problem. Our instinct feelings may not always navigate you in the right direction, but it can be the first step in decision making. So listen to your instinct instead of sweeping them aside.
References
- Copyright Genghis Khan, 2015 www.leader-values.com › 4E’s Leadership Framework
- BY Alden M. Hayashi Harvard Business Review| February 2001, “When to Trust Your Gut” BY Helen Fisher, PhD O, The Oprah Magazine | From the July 2015 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
