Have you ever acting on it?
I know there are times that I should have.
I know there are times that I should have.
Your Gut Feeling
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I have NOT acted on it, and lived to regret it .... Spent one of the worst years of my life working for a sociopath and being beaten down because I didn't trust my gut.
I have acted on gut feelings many times when working with the homeless. I could feel trouble brewing long before it happened. I would turn off the coffee makers and soup crocks to cool them down. Did not want anyone throwing a vat of hot liquid around when the fighting started. Things like that can save you from harm.
Always have followed a gut feeling. Rarely has it lead me wrong.
Read The Gift of Fear by Gavin deBecker. It is all about that gut feeling and how women are more socially apt to ignore that intuition. ALL females especially should read it.
^ This x 100000000
I give this book as a gift to the kids in my life as they get ready to leave the nest.
Absolutely! I've been telling people for years to have the females (especially, but message good for males too) they love read this book. Women are socialized to not listen to that inner voice. It isn't polite to say no or be rude. That has got to change.
Learning to say "no" is hard for lots of people. I'm still learning it. Actual rudeness is unacceptable, imho, but standing up for oneself is necessary, even if it seems rude or is otherwise socially unacceptable.
Yes, people feel they are being rude, when in fact it isn't rudeness at all, but just being assertive.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Sorry to hear about this "bobble-drew" (garsh - I do love your name!)
I don't do gut. I do rational.
Grandma doesn't do rational so much. Her instinct, i.e., gut, drives her first-impression response.
It's complementary. We've been a good team.
Grandma doesn't do rational so much. Her instinct, i.e., gut, drives her first-impression response.
It's complementary. We've been a good team.
I have a whole cadre of people who know me as that!
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
I had a gut instinct about a babysitter once - she had a creepy brother who lived with her.
My son was only about two - I put him down on the floor in his little snowsuit one morning and he started crying his eyes out. All day at work I could not concentrate.
I had to find a new babysitter and I don't know if anything ever actually happened to him, but I still wonder how many other kids went through that babysitter's home (it still gives me the creeps to think about it).
This was back in Ottawa when I lived in Gloucester in a townhouse.
On at least one occasion while driving something "told" me to make a lane change or some such move. If I hadn't I would've been killed by an oncoming vehicle. One time on the job I was almost killed, either intentionally or by mistake, by a fellow worker. Something told me to arise from a bent over position and when I did a sledge hammer landed right where my head had been. It had fallen from a catwalk 50 feet above inside a ship we were building. The fellow worker had sent me down from the catwalk to get something.
Many times I have acted on it and no regrets either.
And you never did return my sledgehammer.