Sometimes the world falls over itself to make sure you get the message that you should listen to the voice that gives you good ideas unbidden. Twice in the past 12 hours I have had a thought to do something and not pursued it only for some incoming communication to make it very clear that I should have.
The first was an impulse to contact someone I used to work with, they came to mind, I saw an opportunity to connect with them amd decided against it. That was yesterday evening. This morning I had two emails from them – this is someone from whom I haven’t received any communication for some time.
Then, this morning, I sat at my desk and it occurred to me to write a Blog, something I have kind of let go of since I got very busy at work. Then I decided I’d noodle around facebook instead. The first notification I had was of a message from someone saying they missed my Blog.
I’d have to be pretty stubborn, even by my own standards, to ignore these universal promptings.
And how could I not right about trusting that voice and about synchronicity?
Whether you call that voice your intuition, inspiration, instinct, higher mind, the Holy Spirit doesn’t matter, it’s the quiet voice that isn’t the result of the white knuckled thinking most of us indulge in, at least occasionally. If we get hing up on what the source of that voice is, or what to call it, our ego has succeeded in making us miss the point by the way.
As for the synchronistic element, that’s probably just a coincidence.
Sometimes it helps to put our lives into perspective. As Humphrey Bogart so memorably put in Casablanca “the problems of two little people don’t make a whole pile of beans in this crazy world” – I say it was memorable but I suspect that’s not verbatim. The idea’s memorable, or rather, it’s worth remembering. What’s…
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So, do you remember the last time you got angry and made any sort of display of it? Did you achieve very much? Did you learn very much? Did anything really change – except for achieving, perhaps, the temporary intimidation of those around you? I’d be surprised if “yes” was the honest answer to any…
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There isn’t a group of group of people on this earth who don’t have the potential for conflict, the nature of the ego is separation, difference and competition so when egos interact, conflict (however subtle) is at least possible – if we were more open to our deeper feelings we’d likely see it as probable…
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There’s a myth that “it’s tough at the top,” there’s another that “it’s lonely at the top,” – why is it so seemingly important to make leadership seem like hard work? If we find Leadership hard work, we’re doing it wrong. We’re probably not leading, more likely we’re managing (just) or worse still (unless you…
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… Jesus is coming. There’s an odd belief many of us suffer, and I choose that word carefully, which is that the busier we are the more we get done. I’m not really talking about our conscious beliefs here. I’m talking about the beliefs we demonstrate by how we think and behave. If you’re already…
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I wasn’t sure what I was going to write about today but when I went looking for a photo to inspire me, this one really spoke to me. It spoke to me of that sinking, sick feeling you get (I get) when I find I have made a howler – I could so relate –…
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One of the greatest tests of Leadership is to trust others – put another way, one of the greatest burdens carried by those aspiring to Leadership is that they have to do everything. Doing everything is exhausting and when you have to do it, it also builds a sense of resentment. I’ve recently been reading…
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Sometimes the world falls over itself to make sure you get the message that you should listen to the voice that gives you good ideas unbidden. Twice in the past 12 hours I have had a thought to do something and not pursued it only for some incoming communication to make it very clear that I should have.
