What I would have missed if I had stayed at home…
What I would have missed if I had stayed at home and followed my logical mind over my intuition.
The insanely beautiful sunsets that you only get on the water.
Jumping off the boat into the turquoise water.
Dolphins in the bay at 7am.
Waking up and not knowing exactly what the day holds but trusting it.
The kind of growth that only happens when you strip your life right back and let it rebuild itself around what's actually true for you.
None of it made logical sense at the time.
36 years old… Move onto a boat? With my parents? Leave the home I had just started to settle into? Let go of a career of 10 years? Choose the thing that felt alive over the thing that looked safe?
My mind had a thousand reasons not to.
My body and intuition had one reason to.
And that one reason has taken me to places, physically, emotionally, within myself, that I genuinely could not have planned my way to. That's not to say it's been easy, far from it. I've doubted my decision MANY times and the noise in my mind has been LOUD. But underneath all of that, when the noise kicks in, there has always been a knowing that I'm right where I'm meant to be.
This is what self-trust and following your intuition actually looks and feels like. It's not the absence of fear, the absence of mental noise or perfect clarity.
It's the willingness to follow the quiet signal underneath all of it, even when your logical mind is screaming at you to be "sensible."
Our intuition isn't irrational. It's just speaking a language we were never taught to trust. So we have to retrain ourselves to listen, to come back to our soul's deep knowing instead of outsourcing our decisions.
Imagine if I wouldn’t have listened…what I would have missed out on and instead stayed at home doing my day to day life.
And this doesn't have to be the big dramatic life overhauls.
It's in the everyday moments too.
Imagine if you stayed at home and didn't go to that first session of the sport you've been quietly wanting to try for months.
Imagine if you stayed at home and didn't book the trip, start the course, say yes to the dinner, walk into the room..
Imagine if you stayed at home and didn't start the business because the timing wasn't "perfect."
Imagine if you listened to your TRUTH… Imagine. ✨
This is the human experience, we get to try things, feel things, discover things. Along the way we learn what lights us up and what doesn't, what makes us bored and what makes us feel alive. It's all information. And 100% yes, it will involve embarrassment, failure and probably saying the wrong thing at times, but isn't that so much better than having staying home, not listening and never known or done the thing?
I’m so curious what your thoughts are on this, feel free to share with me on the gram, I just love these conversations.
Big Love,
Nic xx