{"id":234,"date":"2008-06-12T18:09:31","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T22:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2008-06-12T09:48:37","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T13:48:37","slug":"trust-your-gut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Trust Your Gut?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading this out of the blue article on Yahoo today: Living on Intuitive Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Intuition isn’t about psychic feelings or anything, it’s just plain and simple, listening to yourself. Our brains work pretty well, they’re good at sorting through information and solving problems when we’re not even aware. Sometimes when we rationally think through something, we leave out important considerations. Our happiness should be a primary consideration when making decisions, but often it doesn’t even factor in at all.<\/p>\n

Last year, when i was job hunting, I was offered a job elsewhere for more money, before I went on the interview for this one. Initially I was excited about it. It was only 20 minutes from my parents’ house, they were offering about $10,000 more than the other jobs I had interviewed for and they gave us great food. It seemed perfect. Days passed and my excitement faded. We drove past the building during a driving lesson and I started crying. I was not supposed to be working there.<\/p>\n

There were a few things I overlooked in my initial excitement that I only thought about later. The COO who told me that people should live at home after college, especially females. How they referred to men as guys, but women as females, as if we were animals or something. How arrogant some of the people seemed and how unhappy some of the new hires looked. How I would only get to see Bryan on weekends.<\/p>\n

Following my intuition has served me pretty well so far. I have a great job, great boyfriend, great apartment. I’m actually pretty bad at making decisions consciously. I’m cheap, so they’re usually based on money. I guess that’s why I’ve learned to trust my subconscious to make decisions for me. <\/p>\n

Money doesn’t directly lead to happiness. Friends, family, hobbies, food (for me anyway,) lead to happiness. If money can help you get those things, then it’s good. If not, it’s useless. Money leads to security, security can lead to something like buying a house, which can allow you to grow your family, but financial security alone won’t make you happy. Still, money has to be a consideration. Money won’t make you happy, but I can guarantee being in debt will make you unhappy.<\/p>\n

In general, your brain’s good at balancing these things and knows what will lead to the greatest amount of happiness for you. Think about it, sleep on it, listen to yourself. Don’t jump on something because it sounds good. Do it because it feels right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reading this out of the blue article on Yahoo today: Living on Intuitive Time. Intuition isn’t about psychic feelings or anything, it’s just plain and simple, listening to yourself. Our brains work pretty well, they’re good at sorting through information and solving problems when we’re not even aware. Sometimes when we rationally think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8bQP0-3M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}