02/09/2025
✨Tuesday reminder:
The EQ School 🙏🏻
I can't know all the things
I can't control all the things
Trust your gut
Take that step forward
Knowing you can handle whatever comes your way. Because you have this far ,💛
It's all about balance, ya'll.
I look around and see so many people who can't make a decision if it isn't driven by hard data.
They freeze up, worried they're going to make the wrong decision.
They harden and cinch down if things aren't being done perfectly by the book.
Well, you're going to make a lot of decisions with undesirable & unpredictable outcomes in your life.
And that's absolutely fine - if you're present enough to learn from that experience.
Data has its place; research is very beneficial and important.
And much of it is also largely imperfect - depending on who's funding what, and what variables are being focused on (like how women's bodies were left out of so much medical research for a very, very long time, and still often are).
Your ability to step out into the world without knowing exactly what's going to happen and trust that you're going to be okay is also incredibly important.
To know that you WILL make mistakes, and that that's okay.
Sometimes you'll lose out.
And sometimes you'll end up in largely unexpected places, learning things you didn't know were possible.
But you can't, you just can't, always predict what will happen.
You can't always know what the "right" move is without stepping into the ring and getting a sense of what's going on.
Without seeing how YOUR body responds to that environment or decision.
And the way you get better at navigating life's difficulties and ups and downs is not by checking your phone every 5 minutes to see what google or chatgpt says —
it's by staying present in your body and learning to listen to your own intuition.
You know more than you think you do.
You have a sense about people, environments, and decisions — and that's where the most interesting and imperfect research is done.
What happens when you listen to this gut impulse?
What did you learn by following that thread?
What works for other people but doesn't really work for you?
What would you do differently next time?
By all means, stay engaged with data and research out in the world, but if you're doing it at the expense of your own intuition —
you WILL struggle in bigger, deeper, and more profound ways.
When you know you can handle whatever comes your way,
when you trust that it's okay to be imperfect,
and that that's where you're going to learn the most and find the most engaging connections —
it begins to feel impossible to outsource your intuition to other people anymore.