Have you been rushing or avoiding your decision-making? Not sure.
In this episode, I talk teach you how to feel your intuition when making decisions.
You’ll also learn some easy ways to understand what approach you're currently taking to your decisions and how to use your intuition and what you can do to follow your intuition versus listening to others.
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Have you been rushing or avoiding your decision-making? Not sure.
In this episode, I talk teach you how to feel your intuition when making decisions.
You’ll also learn some easy ways to understand what approach you're currently taking to your decisions and how to use your intuition and what you can do to follow your intuition versus listening to others.
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Thank you for listening, please Subscribe and leave a Review, and Follow me via IG @ManifestYourCareer
Visit my site for more information: https://manifestyourcareer.com/ and manifest the career of your dreams.
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Welcome to the manifest your career podcast. I'm your host Dr. Norma Reyes, a Latina career and life coach. With this podcast, I help successful women learn how to combine their intuition and logic so that they can manifest their dream career. By listening to my podcast, you'll learn how to go from feeling stuck and lost on what to do next to having the clarity, motivation and strategies to manifest the career of your dreams. Each episode, I'll teach you the skills, strategies and mindset you need girl to get in alignment with your career goals. Now, let's go ahead and get started. Hey, everyone, welcome back. This is Episode Four. And today I will be talking about how to tune in to your intuition. You probably have heard lots of advice on how to go about managing your career. And I can say that I've heard plenty of bad advice. And I may come up with a story or two during this episode on times that I didn't follow my intuition in times that I did and the difference in it. But I really want to help you guys learn how to tune in to your intuition by having you answer a few questions. So here is the first one, are you really listening to what your inner voice isn't rising? Or you rushing? To answer to stop thinking about the decision? So I'm gonna let you guys think about that for a second. The first part of the question is, are you really listening to what your inner voice is advising? So you might be feeling a little tug, you may be even feeling a little anxious? And like the second part of the question says, are you rushing to answer to stop thinking about this decision? Now you made rush? To answer this decision, whatever it is, it could be as simple as selecting a college, a major a field, applying to certain positions, not applying to certain positions, and you may rush to do something. So you do it. Here's the key, whether you're following your intuition, or you're not, if you're still thinking about it, if you're still ruminating, and you're not excited about the decision you made, and you're like, should I have done that? Should I have done XYZ, and you're up at night, and you're still tossing and turning, and you're reviewing your decision over and over again, then you are not listening to your intuition. Right? Especially if it's keeping you up at night. Try to journal it out. What about this decision is giving you anxiety? You know, and you can only answer that I can give you a handful of questions to think about but you may just need to sit in silence. to really feel your decision on what about it is making you feel anxious? So the next part of it the next question you can ask yourself, after you take some moments to pause some moments of silence and meditation in word and it doesn't have to be like ours. But it you know, as long as it's a moment of pause, you know, this whole rush rush making a decision feeling behind because maybe you're not as far along in your career as you would like making a rash decision is not necessarily going to help you get where you want to be. So the next question to ask yourself, are you trusting your gut because you have all the information you need? Or are you, you know, maybe being too lazy to fill in the gaps you may have? Again, you know, if you're rushing to make a decision, and something tells you you still don't know everything that you need to know, for example, picking a career. We all just have had that question asked our whole lives. I know the first time I really remember hearing it for my son. He was like five and I mean are like four or three. When was it? It was in 2019? We're in 2021. So my mom asked him, What do you want to be when you grow up? And you immediately answered I want to be a police officer, which is the first I'd ever heard of that in the first he ever had that question asked. And I personally absolutely hate that question because now that puts him in this little box of Oh, use Do you want it to do this when you grew up? What happened to that, and then you're finding yourself having to prove or challenge people based on something you said many years ago, when you had no idea what that was, or if you were really interested in, it's just something that you wanted to blurt out and say, so, you know, when we rush to make an answer, or we're just saying whatever at the time, you know, we may just be trying to move to the next topic. And the way to trust your intuition, if you're not sure, right, because you don't want to rush because you're being lazy. You don't want to rush because you feel pressured. You know, if you are feeling rush, then you know, take that moment back and start gathering that information, do research. Do you know, do personality tests, ask people questions about what they do and how they decided what they wanted to do. Ask people that look really excited about their jobs, and ask them questions, how they decided how they got there, we instantly think that people just magically got into their career and that they knew it all along. And that's just not it. People had to try things and figure it out and decide, hey, you know what, I really don't like that. After all. I've heard many times people go and pick a degree graduate get in the field that they thought they wanted to be in, only to find out that they really hated it. And the ones that are successful are the ones that are okay with letting go, you know, saying, okay, I tried it, I didn't like it, I'm gonna figure out how to move to the next step, move into something else that I do, like, so if you're at that moment in time, and you're like, well, I'm here. What do I do now? And your intuition is tugging at you, you know, it is you can feel it, you just know that that's not the place for you. So what do you do? You start writing down what it is that you like, about your current role? What was it that sparks that interest, maybe it actually was just the way a professor talked about it, you know, there was a passion there. Maybe it was someone you met. And that sparked that interest. Maybe it was a connection somewhere, maybe something you read, maybe something you saw on TV, whatever the reason is, start exploring that let your curiosity come out, bounce, you know, ideas on what it was, right. And I actually my clarity Guide, which I'll talk a little bit more about later, how you can get that it really has all the questions that I'm about to talk about. And you can then kind of use that as a stepping stone to moving forward. Right. So now let's go ahead and move to the next question. As you begin to fill those information gaps, your gut will become to feel more confident, or more anxious. And what I mean by that is, as you start collecting information about a certain career field, asserting company, a certain whatever next step that you want to do in your career, you will begin to feel like yeah, this is what I want to do, or no, I don't, I don't want to you know, even my bass says, I don't want to, you know, your body language was sad, I don't want to, it'll begin to curl up and you'll be like, I don't want to know. But if you are excited, and you're like, yes, this is exciting. I can't wait to tell everybody that I want to do this. You know, that's how you know, if your intuition is telling you, yes, a green light or a yellow light, maybe think about this a little bit more or a red light, Hell no, go the other way. Sister, run, run, run, that's not for you follow those pieces for yourself. And you might start feeling like well, what am I getting all of that? Or what if I'm getting that and other information that is so confusing to me. And this is what confuses everyone. So you got to ask yourself, how much of what your gut is telling you is based on other people's experiences, opinions, or expectations? How much of what you are deciding making those decisions? How much is it based on your own experience, your own opinion, your own expectations, it becomes really noisy in our heads when we're deciding based on other one's expectations. For example, I chose my major in high school to be computers, right? I had no idea what that meant. I everyone kept telling me you're smart. You can do this. You can do computers. And while Yes, I could do computers, what I was doing in class was building websites, computer science, which is like the only thing that I knew anything about it major was completely different. It's more like software based. It's more the I don't know a bunch of other details that don't really matter to this story. And so you know, I went in thinking this is what I want to do. And when I started doing poorly, I immediately took it as a Oh, this isn't for me because I don't have an A as I was used to doing getting all A's Just sitting in class, I actually had to apply myself. But I didn't know that at the time as a freshman as a first gen as a person who had never really, quote unquote, failed yet. I didn't know how to study, I didn't know how to do a lot of things. And so what ended up happening was that I thought this wasn't for me. So I just decided to change my major and go in a different direction. Again, not taking a pause to really understand what about it wasn't working for me, was it me like not applying myself? Was it me not interested in the topic? Or was there other factors? I didn't take any moments and to do that, and then I changed my major to Communication Design, how did I go about picking Communication Design, I took an art class or art classes in high school, and I really liked them. And I thought I wanted to do that. The thing is, what I really realized was, wasn't that I liked Communication Design, which is more of the art piece, I really liked marketing and creating ideas. But it wasn't something that I knew. It wasn't something that I had a word for. But I realized that while I was actually excelling in my art classes, and in my art assignment, because I'm able to really apply myself when something is very novel and new. But once it starts subsiding, I kind of just feel like I should be rewarded, because I put in the effort in the beginning. So what ended up happening was, again, I started to not apply myself. And what I realized was that while I was making good grades in most of these communication, design classes, I hit a wall in my 3d design class, and it was that I wasn't being as creative. And I just kind of would get an assignment and figure it out and do what I thought I needed to do with no passion, no creativity, no real deep creativity. And that's when I took a pause. And I really was like, Okay, I think I could do this, I think I could make good grades, I think I could, you know, jump through those hoops to get my degree, but I won't have that cutting edge, I won't have that portfolio that's going to get me a job in this field. I just knew it. And that's when I decided, Okay, I gotta change my major, because I don't have that inner fire and passionate about this. And so finally, I chose psychology, I was in an intro to psychology class, and I thought, Oh my gosh, I really love learning about people. I really love understanding how people develop, etc. And so I did that those classes, I definitely was completely interested, you know, and it's like they say, your first two years in college, not really sure what you want to do, and you kind of figure it out. And your last couple of years should be, quote, unquote, should be the ones where you're more passionate. Now, if you went through all four years, or you haven't finished, and you're like, I just didn't have that maybe college isn't for you. Okay, remember that everyone has their own unique path, maybe you'll come back and finish it, maybe you won't. I'm not trying to say that one way or the other is right or wrong. It's whatever is right for you. Right And over time, your intuition will guide you right, the first time I encountered something, I ran away and went a whole different direction. The next time I kind of check that Well, okay, this isn't working again. So then I took more time to actually figure it out with everything perfect after that. No, of course not. I will continue to learn my way I continuing to figure it out and you will to your career confidence will come with time, but you do have to pause and see why something's not working and ask yourself am I doing this because other people are pushing this I'm just don't know what I want to do. And it makes sense to follow someone else's advice, or is it my in tuition? So I challenge you guys to take those questions that I asked you and really, really answer them. Now. If you want to start listening to your intuition. That's what you need to do. Alright guys, that's it for this episode. I'll see you on the next one. Thank you for listening to the manifest in your career podcast with me, your host Dr. Norma Reyes, a Latina career and life coach.