Should I stay or should I go?

Have you asked yourself these questions before?

Should I stay in this job or should I look for something new?  Should I stay in this city or is it time to head on out?  Should I stay with this person or is it time to move on?

Such difficult questions.  Choosing one course over the other can impact your entire life AND can potentially impact others' as well.  Weighs on you a little, doesn't it?  Want to hear my brilliant advice?

MAKE A DECISION.

There.  You heard me right.  CHOOSE.  But don't just half-heartedly choose.  When you decide to go one route, go at it with all your might, for this is the path you have chosen and you should blaze its trail.

Ok, backing it up a little...I think what I'm trying to say here is you really have to trust your heart.  You need to be in tune to what it's saying to you.  If you get a weird feeling or a huge excitement over something, don't ignore it.  Pray about it.  Talk to someone about it.  Sometimes God give us those little feelings for a reason.  He's TELLING YOU SOMETHING.  It ain't gonna always come in bright neon lights!  I can think of many instances where I've had these "nagging" feelings in my own life.  Some that stand out to me the most:

One: Taking my first Photoshop class in college and knowing I was meant to be a designer for a living.
Two: Hearing someone talk about the HIM (Helpers in Missions) Program at church and knowing I had to do it after college.
Three: Knowing it was time to move on from my job and start looking for a new one.

Do you see the trend with these things?  In all of them, I KNEW something right away.  It was almost instantaneous in all of them, actually.  But, it's not enough to know you need to do something.  You actually have to DO it once that feeling starts growing inside of you.  I can't say that enough.  Most of these nagging feelings I knew pretty quickly what I needed to do.  But some of them I did not act on very quickly. The nagging only got worse.  Take my job situation.  I knew for a long time it was time for me to move on, but I never put in the effort to search for something new.  So I stayed at my job and just brooded over the thought that I should do something.  Then one night I had a "moment" at my Connections church group.  I decided it was time to stop brooding and start acting.  I got online that night and found the job listing for my current job I hold at Insight Creative Group.

I encourage you to ACT, people!  You might not always make the right decision.  And your heart could possibly be in the wrong place every now and then.  BUT, if you sit by and let your life pass you by without acting upon your gut feelings, are you really being true to yourself? I think it's definitely important to weigh your decisions still. I'm not telling you to act without thought. (You did NOT hear that from me).  Choose to be a decision maker in your life.  Don't let life just pass you by and at the end you're left with only a bunch of "what if's".