You must trust your instincts. You must allow yourself to go for what you think.
There’s a great Abraham quote:
“Every warning is bad advice. And every encouragement is good advice.”
The gist of this is that people, though well-meaning, will often give us advice from a place of trying to protect us. They don’t really know where we are, nor do they really know what is best for us, but they may think they do. They know what they know, but how can they know what an individual’s own guidance is telling them?
Again and again, I have personally witnessed how trusting my own guidance is always right. And trusting someone else’s guidance, if it conflicts with my own, always sucks!
Another way to look at this is to think about what people warn us about. They might be trying to protect us from pain, protect us from loss, or failure, or discouragement. All well-meaning things. But what if in the process they encourage us not to trust our own guidance? How does this help us? In my experience, this only handicaps us.
At times I have made certain difficult leaps of faith. I knew what I was choosing was uncertain, maybe even a long-shot. But I realized that, if it came down to it, I would rather risk being “wrong” if it meant I chose what felt right for me.
So far, my own guidance has led me impeccably, provided the guidance came from a place of true inspiration, and not fear, lack, or trying to fix something broken.
Trust your instincts!