If My Intuition Tells Me to Quit My Job, Do I Listen?
Dear Readers: In this week’s newsletter, I am inspired to answer a question I was asked. Q: If my intuition is telling me to quit my job -like really loudly- but I don’t have a back-up plan, do I listen?
A: Oh, my stars. I want to answer this in a few ways. First, by illustrating intuition through listening to your body. Then, some practical advice.
Let’s start with a question: How do you know this is your intuition speaking? I’m not asking this to question your ability to trust yourself, but to remind you of what you DO KNOW, and that KNOWING is aka your intuition.
Your Soul is telling you that you aren’t happy in this situation any longer? Okay. Trust this. When it comes to listening inward for guidance from your Soul, it often helps to start by naming what you well and clearly DO KNOW.
You KNOW you want to quit? ← is it true? If you KNOW your current misalignment equals quitting this role and/or employer (actually, these are two different questions), then move onto the next part of your question: You KNOW you want to quit now? ← Let’s imagine you aren’t sure about Timing.
How will you know if your intuition is guiding you to quit now?
(This all may sound nit-picky; it is! Picking the question apart develops your precision and confidence around what it is that you *truly* feel and know.)
In practice: Take a few minutes to drop into your body. Now, invite in the energy of your question down, down into your belly. If you ask, “Is this the Right Time to move on?” you feel into this. If your energy says YES-yum!, this is TRUTH. If you feel anything less than a yummy feeling… not the Right Time.
Use that feeling of your body’s YESSSS… I no longer want to do this job, in this way…YESSSS I am no longer in alignment with this choice… as an energetic measure. An unequivocal and yummy-feeling YESSSSSS is always going to be an affirmative answer. This means if you don’t get a YESSSS, you are getting a NO, or not right now - and that is intuitive information for you to use, too.
As you feel into each aspect, know: A Soul-driven choice will always feel freeing, and peaceful- even if uncertainty accompanies this choice.
To reiterate: With questions like the above, begin with what you DO KNOW. This allows you to move onto what (you think) you don’t (yet) know.
Gentle reminder: Using intuition is not about having all the answers to your questions, right now. Rather, it is receiving what is RIGHT for you right now.
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The second way I want to answer this is practically. I’ve quit jobs without having a back-up plan. Sometimes/often that felt like jumping from the frying pan into the fire: You relieve yourself of one monkey (a bad boss, a soul-crushing, mind-numbing job) only to have a new monkey called “survival” breathing down your back. That’s super stressful and can lead to taking a job to get out of stress, causing you to return to a similar (or worse) situation.
((Wisdom in hindsight!: I DO KNOW that the decisions I’ve made I made in the only way I knew how. Sometimes, to get back into Right alignment, one must take a leap of faith- and let the chips fall where they may. I don’t even think in terms of making Wrong or Right choices, any longer - not even when it comes to listening to my intuition! There are NO mistakes. There is only what feels meh, good, better, best. No matter where you land on the spectrum, you will get another chance to choose anew. To move from meh, to better…))
A great way to make sure you’re not “jumping from frying pan into fire” is to firmly lead with your own Vision for yourself (instead of trying to fit yourself into a future employer’s vision, or quit reactively). Define your own Mission statement instead of walking into a ready made one. Spend some time on this: use your feminine energetics to imagine into, and feel into, the ideal job, situation, and life for yourself. Own this. Make this your core -your backbone.
This exercise requires ALL of your honesty about who you are today, and what you DO KNOW. Also, your dedication to hold this vision for yourself - to hold yourself accountable to YOU (not: fear, survival, or conditioning).
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I feel you’ve asked such a great question! I hope it’s helpful to others, too.
In terms of how we spend our daily lives, we often allow ourselves to default to survival mode – financial fears, and wounding/conditioning around that. But survival is NOT co-creative. You will not create anything NEW or different when operating from that space. What is co-creative? YOU ARE.
Come from a place of KNOWING: Who you are, and what you truly want.
Come from a place of CURIOSITY: About your question, yourself. Explore.
…Need a back-up plan? That may be irrelevant, or 100% relevant. Either way, find out by starting with what you KNOW. Step by step, follow what you DO KNOW…and then take another step into what you DO KNOW (even if that’s: I don’t know when this will happen, but I do know it’s not today. That’s KNOWING!)… and then take another step. This is intuition in practice
When it comes to trusting your intuition you need only KNOW your very next step.
