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How to Make Life-Changing Decisions Without Setting Your Life on Fire
I once asked my old mentor, Eagle Eye, how to know when I was making the right decision.
He stared at me for a long time. The kind of stare that strips paint.
Then he said,
“Most people aren’t choosing. They’re flinching.”
Rude. Accurate. Uncomfortable.
Later—because I am nothing if not persistent—I pushed back.
I said,
“But what if I’m running out of time?”
Eagle Eye didn’t miss a beat.
“Then sit down faster.”
That was the lesson.
No incense. No chanting. No dramatic destiny music.
Just brutal nervous system literacy.
Welcome to modern decision-making, where we confuse anxiety for intuition, urgency for truth, and gut feelings for whatever we had for dinner.
Step One: Stop Letting a Squirrel Drive the Bus
Eagle Eye used to say the nervous system is like a half-blind horse tied to your cart.
If the horse is calm, it’ll get you home.
If it’s spooked, it’ll drag you through three fences, a creek, and someone else’s divorce.
Most “big decisions” are made while the horse is already bolting.
People quit jobs, end relationships, move countries, start businesses, join cults, and buy vans because their nervous system screamed:
“DO SOMETHING. ANYTHING. NOW.”
That’s not intuition.
That’s a biological smoke alarm going off because you burned toast.
If your jaw is clenched and your thoughts are racing, you are not receiving divine guidance. You are reacting like a startled wombat.
Step Two: Fear Loves a Spiritual Costume
Eagle Eye loved pointing out that fear is a master of disguise.
Sometimes it shows up as: “Following my truth”
“Leaping into alignment”
“The universe is pushing me”
No.
The universe isn’t pushing you.
Your tolerance for discomfort is low and your imagination is high.
Here’s the tell:
Real alignment feels steady
Escaping feels urgent
If the decision feels like jumping out of a moving car because it’s uncomfortable inside—congratulations, that’s not growth. That’s dramatic self-ejection.
Step Three: The Boring Questions Are the Sacred Ones
Eagle Eye didn’t care about signs.
He cared about sustainability.
He asked things like: “How will you pay for that?”
“What happens when the excitement wears off?”
“Can you live with this choice on a bad day?”
Spiritual people hate these questions. They want feathers on the path.
Eagle Eye wanted receipts.
He used to say: “If your spiritual plan collapses the moment you get tired, it was fantasy—not wisdom.”
Final Fire Truth
Clarity doesn’t shout.
It doesn’t rush you.
It doesn’t threaten you with missing out.
It waits.
And it usually sounds less like a thunderbolt and more like: “Well… this is uncomfortable. But it’s honest.”
Eagle Eye would grin at that.
Then probably add: “Calm the body first.”
And if you protested— “But what if I’m running out of time?”
He’d just smile and say: “Then sit down faster.”
-Laughing Crow
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