Longings
Posted on November 29, 2012 by Gary Mahler , One of Thousands of Executive Coaches on Noomii.
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The heart knows what it knows. It’s makes things simple. Our minds complicate things.
Lets say we have a longing. How many times do we reflect on it and go for it. I think more often than not we judge it, compare it, qualify it, make absurd, doubt it and create excuses why it is just so impractical.
If I look back on my life I see that when I have done this, my happiness is sucked right out of me. I feel like I am boxed in and that I am dishonoring myself. I feel miserable because I am not doing something my heart knows it should be doing.
Conversely I know for a fact that when I follow my longing, I feel juiced up for life. I feel joy and I feel in my power. I feel confident and I live in faith. I show up to life differently. I notice things more.
When I was nineteen I went to Paris for two weeks. I made the decision I would come back and live in Paris for a year after I finished my business degree. Fast forward five years, I ended up staying there for two. While there I drank Muscadet on the Champs-Elysees, met a beautiful Spanish girl, went to chic parties, ran out of money (after nine months), worked with a Venezuelan artist in Geneva for two months, found a job in design back in Paris and had the time of my life!
I remember years I did not follow my longings. Not much to tell. They sucked.
What they did tell me is that I love life so much that I made a promise to follow my longings. It’s been a blast. It makes the hard times less difficult. It makes the good times even sweeter. The heart knows what it knows.
