Using your feelings as a guide

Published by Lola

I have been focussing on my career goals and in the process taking in information that will help me to reach those goals. My goals are clearly set out with accountability structures to help me regularly monitor and keep me on track.

There were a few days last week where I was feeling less than 100% but due to the structures I was still able to move closer to my goals and complete my tasks for the day. However, I felt like I hadn’t done anything and wasted the day even though I hadn’t. I had been productive yet felt wholly unproductive.

The Law of Attraction encourages using your feelings and emotions as a guidance system. If it feels good then it will do you good and vice versa. I’m a huge fan of shifting your state of being before doing, but on this day this feeling wouldn’t shift so I accepted it as where I was and continued my day. I gave no energy to trying to change it or to wallowing in it, it just was what it was.

Having such clear accountability structures to follow enabled me to do the following:

Not write the day off using my feelings as an excuse.
Minimise the amount of procrastination my unfocussed mind was dying to get involved with.
Realise that there is not necessarily a direct correlation between how productive I am and how productive I feel. This brought to my awareness instances of limiting beliefs still held around work. Do I only feel productive when I’ve given blood, sweat and tears?

There are many ways to use your feelings as a guide, it is not simply about avoiding things that make you feel bad, that depends on whether you are feeling your own feelings or your saboteur’s. Your feelings can guide you in many ways and as in this case, it was to bring beliefs around my work ethic to my attention.

In love, light and abundance x x x