Intuitive thoughts are calm. Intruding thoughts are hectic and fear-inducing. Intuitive thoughts are “quiet”; intruding thoughts are “loud,” which makes one harder to hear than the other. Intuitive thoughts usually come out of nowhere; invasive thoughts are usually triggered by external stimuli.”
By Brianna Wiest in her book The Mountain Is You
Driven, ambitious self-starters are bad at listening to their intuition (though they won’t admit it).
I know because I am one.
We’re good at setting goals and achieving them. We’re good at problem-solving. We’re good at figuring things out. We always have been and we’ve accepted it as a defining characteristic, as our super-power.
But we also fail. What’s worse is that, before we fail, we know we will — and we go full steam ahead anyway.
Because we can’t stand the thought of not trying, at least. We can’t stand the thought of admitting that, maybe, we’re not good enough.
That’s what makes ambitious over-achievers — as successful as they are — anxious, moody, miserable, and addicted.
If you’re an ambitious over-achiever, you need to read this.
Your results — all the amazing results you’ve ever achieved and will ever achieve — don’t make you good enough. Your failures don’t make you not-good-enough. You’re amazing just because you’re you.
And you — the you you’re afraid is too average to listen to — actually know many answers that your over-achieving conscious brain doesn’t.
That you can think of a better dream, a bigger dream, a more suitable dream. That you knows when to step down and when to keep pushing.
That you loves you no matter what. It can heal you and guide you, and you’ll never have to stress over results ever again. Because the results that are for you will come much easier than you thought possible.
That you is your powerful inner voice, your intuition, your cleanest, most authentic version. That you is your light and it can guide you through anything.
The other voice in your head is your fear that if you don’t achieve more, you’re simply not worth whatever it is that you want. Sure, that fear can be useful. It certainly has helped you in the past. But it can only take you this far.
Because achievement without happiness is the ultimate failure.