You can hear your own direction more clearly once everybody else stops giving directions.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

Advice accumulates. Everyone has a view about what you should do, and none of it is wrong exactly, and collectively it drowns out the quieter sense you have of your own direction. That sense is not louder than the advice; it is only clearer when the advice stops.

Take a break from consultation on whatever you are deciding. No opinions for a week, including the ones you would seek out. Then ask yourself what you think. The answer is often already there and has simply not had a quiet enough room to be heard in.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Whose advice is louder in your head than your own sense?

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