The true key to my ‘listen-to-my-heart-success’ has been hindsight; experiencing the pain and consequences of NOT listening when it was surely blatant that I should have freaking listened to myself. Like the time I took on a huge database project as a designer and outsourced the coding. But didn’t know the first thing about what I was doing, nor what they were doing. I had a feeling I shouldn’t do it, but the money was so darn good … the entire project blew up in my face, and made some people look really bad (myself most of all).
Yes, you can grow your business by completely ignoring your inner wisdom. But only if you take the painful and valuable lessons from your experiences and make better choices moving forward.
So being an intuitive decision maker in business isn’t just for the corner psychic. It’s crucial to our success.
But wait, you say! What happened in San Francisco?! Well, I moved out there, lived in my friends’ living room, and got a job in an ice cream shop. I significantly cut my earnings from my Chicago job and doubled my rent. And it turned out that the friends I moved in with weren’t very good friends. They were heroin junkies. Seven weeks later, I climbed on an Amtrak train, penniless except for the money my dad had sent. I’ll never forget that train ride in the fall through the Rockies. It was one of the happiest moments of my life as I finally listened to my inner wisdom and was on the way home.
By Wendy Piersall
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