There’s a moment I’ve seen so many times over the years, whether it’s in a class or a private session…when overriding yourself becomes impossible to ignore.

I’ll mention something, perhaps it’s a pattern or behaviour that I’ve noticed, and someone will say something like:

“Yeh, I know that already…”

And when I hear that, I know something important has just happened.

Because what they are really recognising in that moment is not new information… it’s something they have already felt or sensed. Something they have already known at some level but haven’t trusted it, or they’ve overridden it.

Sometimes that happens because what they felt, didn’t register as true knowing at the time so therefore it also didn’t make logical sense.

And sometimes it happens because trusting that inner voice would have required a level of change that they didn’t quite feel ready for, so they set it aside. Sometimes for years.

Sometimes we think that other people know what we should do better than us, so we override our internal voice and follow theirs and sometimes we shift on to a completely different path because it seems to make more sense to our logical mind.

Or – my personal experience – is that I try to make something work that never quite felt right.  I’ve made that mistake several times over, usually in regards to following the advice of a Business or Marketing Coach that actually made me cringe on the inside but I did it anyway because I thought they knew more than I did.  Ouch..  I learned that the hard way many $$$ later.

At some point, often much later on, we find ourselves right back at the same point all over again but this time, we have a knowing, and we’re seeing it more clearly this time.

We thought we needed to find something else… but actually we just needed to trust ourselves.

I find that moment fascinating.

Because it’s not really about getting new answers, it’s about recognising where we have been overriding what we already knew… and beginning to see what that has cost us over time.

Maybe not in a big dramatic way… but in the decisions we delayed.  The lost opportunities.  The paths we couldn’t quite find the courage to take.

And when we begin to see that really clearly, something starts to shift within us and this time it’s not because someone is there telling us what to do next, but it’s because we can no longer ignore the voice inside of us that has been asking us all along… to stop hiding and to finally Be Who We Came Here To Be.