Trust Your Instincts
You Are Usually Right

When you don't trust your instincts, that is when things go bad.

I just heard a story today about how a someone should have trusted a person's judgment and intuition.

I was at lunch at work. The engineers where I work normally eat our lunches together in the back room at the office. There are 6 of us. Not all 6 are there everyday but usually most of us are.

We have a half hour lunch so we scarf down our lunch and either read magazines or talk. Sometimes the discussion is lively. Sometimes it is really dull and boring. There is some work related talk. Sports is a more popular discussion.

Just as we were getting into a good discussion today, one of the guys got a call on his cell phone. You could tell by his tone that it wasn't good news.

His wife called and told him their daughter had fallen off their new trampoline and she thinks her arm is broken.

He said well take her to the doctor and let me know what happens.

He then turned to us and said - "I could have figured that would happen. I did not want to get that trampoline. I told my wife I did not think it was a good idea, but she really wanted it for the kids. We have only had it a month and now one kid has broken her arm."

He had some intuition that the trampoline was not a good idea. This is a really smart, with it guy too. He is super organized and a really great engineer and a really great guy all around. If anyone should be trusted, it would be him.

Now his daughter has a broken arm and all because the guys wife would not listen to his better judgment. She did not believe in his intuition or did not believe in his instincts.

His intuition told him that the trampoline was not a good idea.

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