I’ll never forget the first time I completely ignored my inner wisdom. I was nineteen years old and decided I wanted to move to San Francisco. I made my plans, set my date … and then this nagging little feeling that I was on the wrong track started creeping into my stomach. For a few weeks, I just plain ignored it. But it grew. So, good little hippie that I was back then, I did a Tarot card reading to determine my fate. I pulled the Tower card as my outcome. All I remember about tarot cards today was that this card meant certain disaster.
I didn’t like that outcome. So I did it again!
In one of those weird moments when you start to question the universe around you, I looked at my outcome card and it was the Tower again. Goosebumps. And that nagging feeling in my stomach just about knocked me over. Did I listen? Nope.
I was going to move to San Francisco, no matter what card I pulled, no matter what my intuition said, no matter what inner wisdom told me about simply letting go and changing my plans.
Now before I tell you what happened in San Francisco, I want to tell you the lesson I learned from going to San Francisco has stuck with me to this day, in more ways than one. I learned to listen to that damn inner wisdom, that’s for sure.
Sometimes I get asked about “following the heart”. So many people don’t understand what this means. How do we know when we are following our hearts? How do we know what part of ourselves to listen to when we have conflicting emotions? How do we know what direction to take our business in when there is a fork in the road?
For me, at this point, it’s second nature. Why? I wasn’t born super consciously connected to the powers above. I wasn’t some high achiever who seemed divinely guided (Oh, FAR from it! That’s another post in and of itself!) And I certainly floundered in business before.
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