10. Go with Your Gut
In her book Listen: Trusting Your Inner Voice in Times of Crisis, author Lynn Robinson coaches us on how to identify our intuitive voice, or gut feeling. She tells us to pay attention to body signals: excitement, enthusiasm, and energy all say, “Go for it, girlfriend!” Boredom, anxiety, and resentment mark a dead end. In one of her exercises, Robinson instructs us to imagine ourselves having made a decision that we are deliberating on today. Once we have made the decision, how do we feel? Excited? Nauseous? Then she tells us to imagine ourselves a year from the time we made our decision. Are we glad we made that decision? Has our life improved? How are we feeling? What do our friends and family say?

Along these lines, I think anything we can do to identify and hear our gut instincts is going to help us out of any workplace—or life—rut. We may never love our jobs or whistle at work (you know people who do that, right?), but tuning into our instincts may help us increase our odds of finding some satisfaction and fulfillment in the hours we sit in front of a computer or a supervisor.
 

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