Eric Patrick Marr

How do you know which decision to choose?

How do you know which direction to go in? When life brings those big, gamechanging questions (and they always come) to your front doorstep? (Often to the point where you can’t rest, you’re thinking about it so much.)

I think, beyond any question at all, we have been raised in an environment where we make decisions way too “logically” and not nearly impulsively enough.

And “logic” is too often a function of what everyone else has typically done (for better or for worse).

But consider our heartbeats – the center of our physical lives.

Our heartbeats are viewed by EKG machines that show our health – our heart rates – through signals. If your heart rate is flat, like this first image, you are dead.

An alive heart gives us signals.

Hmmmm… so Life does indeed gives us signals.

And what’s another way we check our heart rates? We check our pulse.

So if our pulse is so important, why have we always vehemently diminished – even despised – our impulses?

It is my life’s observation that our relationships stagnate (flatline), our economy has stagnated (flatlined), and so few Americans are passionate in their careers (a huge chunk of your life)…

…because our “logic” has been to actually squash Life’s signals – our very own impulses. We have thought it better to ignore life’s signals.

Hence, we’ve been misreading life’s signs. (Notice how signals and signs are similar words.)

And we misread our life’s signals usually because so many around us label our impulses “bad.”

I believe the exact opposite.  I believe our impulses are our lives.

Because I believe life is inherently good – and because life indeed gives us signals – I believe our lives can only be truly and fully lived when we listen for our impulses (like a Doctor listens to your heart through a stethoscope) and follow them all the way into new, expanded, better, freer, happier territories.

Whether it’s a career move, a relationship choice – or any decision at all – life does indeed show us signs.

And just like you listen for, or feel for, your heartbeat – your pulse – you only have to listen for and feel for your life’s signals.