Trusting yourself looks like finding the courage to override the constant temptations to minimize the small but meaningful steps you’re taking to honor your intuition. Trusting yourself looks like depersonalizing setbacks. Trusting yourself looks like realizing that just because the thing you felt so certain about changed, that doesn’t mean you

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Whenever a friend is trying to make a decision, I generally try to ask something to the effect of , Do you really like this? ( This being the person or the relationship or the job or the city or just generally the life they’re living.) And the thing I find striking is that people find this question amazingly difficult. They usually say something to... See more

The author Cheryl Strayed on trusting your gut:

“Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to do. Don’t stay when you know you should go or go when you know you should stay. Don’t fight when you should hold steady or hold steady when you should fight. Don’t focus on the short-term fun instead of the long-term fall out. Don’t... See more