Today I did a couple of jobs in an area where I don’t like to work. It’s not that it feels threatening or dirty, or that I have bad memories tied to it. It’s just that I get a bad vibe, something that rubs me the wrong way.
Often, when I visit clients, no matter the neighborhood, I get a sense of what I’m about to walk into before I even knock on the door. It’s not about how the house looks, or something the client said on the phone. It’s just a feeling, something that’s hard to put into words.
Am I saying I have supernatural powers? No, of course not. Quite the opposite. I think this is one of the most natural things in the world.
I’m pretty sure most people can relate. We go to a house viewing and feel that it doesn’t feel right somehow. We meet a really nice person, yet still understand deep down that I don’t want to take this relationship any further.
It’s a kind of intangible inner guide.
Personally though, there’s one area where, for some reason, I usually don’t listen to that inner guide, even when I clearly feel it. That’s when I get an idea.
It might be a new project I want to launch, or a new task I’m about to take on. Buzz, buzz, buzz. The vibes are there, but still:
Let’s go!
I don’t really know why it’s like that, and I don’t know if you recognize it.
Maybe it’s because excitement and ecstasy vibrate so much more intensely. They don’t last very long, so they go full throttle instead. A flash of “genius”, short-lived and packed with energy.
I don’t know. I’m just thinking and writing at the same time. What I do know is that it always feels good to write like this. Just pouring thoughts out onto the writing canvas.
Who knows, maybe it’ll even lead to a bit more vigilance next time lightning strikes and the rolling thunder turns into a:
Let’s go!