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My Biggest Entrepreneurial Obstacles: Resisting Conformity, Listening to My Inner Voice, and Defining Success On My Own Terms
One of the bravest things I keep doing is listening to my gut. It’s listening to the voice that says, “no, this isn’t right,” or “yes, this is what you need to do.” Sometimes the stories I have clung to about myself are too loud though, and without realizing it I suppress this inner, self-knowing voice.
If I didn’t find a way to hone my that voice — call it my inner knowing, my intuition — then I would be living a life sucked of all joy. I would be stuck in jobs that didn’t inspire, wrapped up in relationships that ate away at my mental and emotional health, and enduring situations that I really don’t have any business being in.
You inner voice, that inner-knowing, can function as a built-in bullshit detector.
But I haven’t always listened to the voice inside me. It took me a long time and I worked in a lot of jobs that taught me exactly how I wanted to do things, and exactly how I didn’t want to do things. I worked for a lot of assholes who treated their employees like they were disposable, a common result of living in a white supremacist, capitalist society.
