There’s something within each of us that is guiding us all the time. Call it whatever feels right to you. It’s always present, but it can take practice to learn how to recognize it and trust it.
Sometimes I feel something similar to butterflies in my chest and stomach when I’m being led. Other times it feels like warm water rushes through me, and sometimes it’s an inner knowing. There are also times when it’s a clear inner voice. It’s clearer than an audible voice when this happens and comes with a deep sense of peace and certainty.
Years ago, my focus was on wanting to know what to do, but now, I just want to feel its presence with me. I know that experiencing its presence is all that really matters; if there’s anything to do, it just naturally follows from this.
One thing I began to notice years ago is that I seemed to be guided in two different ways–through pain or joy. If I couldn’t hear, didn’t listen, or before I knew how to do it, I was squeezed in the direction I needed to go, and this was often painful. If I listened, the feeling was like following what felt even the littlest bit joyful inside. The key is learning to trust it so that you want to listen even when it doesn’t seem to make sense, and you haven’t a clue where it’s leading you.
That’s actually how PSP&Co. started; I was experiencing a very dark period in my life, and nothing, and I do mean nothing felt joyful. One day I started doodling and created the Princess and the Pup. It was the only thing that had felt even the tiniest bit joyful in some time, so I kept doing it (sometimes 18 hours a day). Now she has over a million followers on her social platforms.
I didn’t set out to do any of it; I just followed what made my heart twinkle. In fact, I had been a professional fine artist for years prior to this, but I felt like I never wanted to paint again.
Princess Sassy Pants & Co.™ 
Wisdom, to follow your inner twinkle. – TLW
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