RULE 69
Follow your intuition
Deep down inside you know when you’re right, and you know when you’re wrong. Sure we can cut off that inner voice, but if we do we lose touch, and then we really are in trouble. That inner intuition may not speak loud and clear all the time but when it does you’d be mad not to follow it.
Trouble is your mind also speaks loud and clear – all the time – and we mix the two up and follow what we think is intuition when in fact it is fear or jealousy or another emotion.
So how do you tell? If when you’re talking to somebody about a new system you are about to implement and, though they look positive, you feel an odd or cold feeling inside, heed it. Take time to think why. Tell somebody else about it and see if it happens ...
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