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An Intuitive Guide to Happiness
Stop Conforming, Start Living
Have you ever met someone and thought: no, not for me? Did you listen? What about when it said: go for it? These thoughts are your keys to living the life you’ve always wanted. Sadly, they get ignored far too often.
There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself. — Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
My greatest strength, beyond my learned business acumen or trained martial arts skills, is my innate ability to listen to my inner self, my intuition. That voice that we all hear screaming in our heads when a suspicious person approaches or an opportunity knocks — mine is turned up to 11.
Sadly, like most, I’ve ignored this voice more often than not. When it guides me to tell someone to kick rocks for being an asshole, I justify their actions to avoid conflict and keep a friend. Guess what: they do it again and again. It’s like I gave them permission to keep going.
Instead of living my actual life, I ignored this voice, suppressed who I really…
