As regular readers will know, I’ve been taking some time out over the last few weeks  doing a few pet projects and just shifting my focus, pace and rhythm.  The summer is often a quiet time in my line of work (and thought that hasn’t really been the case this year) I usually use this time for planning, writing, networking etc. 

Yesterday was my first full day ‘back to work’ and so obviously today was meant to be day two.  I had an early morning breakfast meeting today and was anticipating getting on with my long list of things to be done.  However, as I was driving home, I realised that I really didn’t feel like doing that.  Now, I’m a pretty disciplined kind of worker and would formally have just told myself “Tough! Get up them stairs and settle down to it mister…”   Today I felt that wasn’t the best response.  Interestingly, after a family weekend away, both my son and wife were both feeling very slowed down too, so I opted to join them in a lazy, gentle day.  There were only a couple of things I had to do that wouldn’t wait till tomorrow.

These days I increasingly feel that wisdom lies in listening and responding to these kind of random urges.  It takes a little courage to do something so counter-cultural, but I place a great deal of value in intuition and feel the only way to really develop it is to respond to it.  If your inner voice is whispering to you, perhaps you might listen to it and try to trust it…

I’d love to hear from you about your experiences and experiments in this…