Let’s say you apply to an ultra-exclusive club, thinking that if you get in, you’ll be set. You will be the envy of all your friends and the “cool one”. So you spend hours and hours crafting the perfect application. You’re feeling hopeful and optimistic that this will change your life. Then you send it off.
And then a week goes by. Then two weeks. Then a month. You start to wonder what’s going on. “Why haven’t you heard anything yet?” Eventually, you get a message turning you down. They say that you’re not qualified enough. You don’t have the right characteristics they were looking for.
And you’re crushed.
But if you’re being honest, you knew it in your bones that this club wasn’t for you. And yet you plowed ahead anyway. If only you would’ve known earlier…
The truth is that you didn’t listen to the “whispers”.
The whispers are subtle signals that the path you are following is the wrong one. You might have a sequence of negative events happen throughout the process. Maybe you got splashed that day in the rain on the way to print the application. Or your computer shut down as you were trying to send off the application. These are all examples of the famous Murphy’s law. But you ignored those signals.
Every second, there are signals that are calling our attention. We are being guided constantly to make the right decisions but we ignore them. We are afraid of what might happen.
But what if we followed these signals? What if we recognized them and trusted that there might be a better way? Where might we end up instead?
My advice: Follow the whispers. You’ll always be glad you did.
A New Source Code 