I’m going through a big mindset shift right now. Triggered by a few good friends, people I deeply respect.

It might be that time of the year. But it’s more than that. On paper, everything looked right. The direction made sense. And still, something didn’t click. Something felt off.

That feeling is familiar to me. And I’ve learned to take it seriously.

Because every time I ignored it, my world fell apart within months. Once an important relationship ended. Other times I lost a big job. And one time, I even lost the studio I had built with my own hands.

Here’s the part people don’t like to hear: Listening to that feeling never gave me clarity upfront. Clarity always came after I acted on it. Never before.

That’s what makes it so hard to trust intuition over the intellectual mind. It’s not logical. But it’s also not emotional.

Intuition is pattern recognition. It’s your lived experience speaking before your mind can justify it.

Long-term decisions almost always look risky in the short term. Because the mind is built for short-term safety. And the decisions that actually matter are almost always long-term.

You usually have to sacrifice something immediate, comfort, certainty, approval, for something that won’t pay off right away.

Your conscious mind hates that. It wants proof. Guarantees. Validation.

It’s designed to protect what already exists, not to build what comes next.

But to build what comes next, you can’t drag the old version of yourself forward unchanged. You have to let go. Start fresh. Use who you are now as a foundation, but allow the next version of you to take a different path.

Otherwise, nothing changes. No growth without change. No change without listening.

That’s why the right decisions often look unreasonable at first: turning down money, slowing down, saying no before there’s a better yes, choosing coherence over momentum.

Short-term safety often disguises itself as responsibility. Most of the time, it’s just avoidance.

So the real question isn’t whether a decision feels safe right now. It’s whether you can live with yourself if you don’t make it.

What lasts rarely feels comfortable in the beginning. It feels clean.

I hope that makes sense. You will hear more about the big shift soon. So stay tuned :)

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