Go with your guts
There's not time like the present to get in touch with your instincts. The only time mine have failed me recently was when a Chief Inspector phoned, I took a sharp intake of breath wondering what on earth I could have done to warrant his call. My panic was quickly over when he explained he was only calling to book me for an event.
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 Some years ago I had arranged a photo sitting. Before I went my sister warned me not to let the photographer 'get my kit off'. I was quite taken aback by the suggestion, not only was this photographer in his fifties, he specialised in family photos and portraits. She may be used to the seedy media scene in London, but that sort of thing just doesn't happen in sleepy Lancashire.
How wrong was I, my session degenerated – in the most plausible manner- into me rolling round the floor, on top of a mirror, tastefully wrapped in a silken sheet, gazing vacantly into the middle distance. All the while the photographer was persuading me that it was on purely artistic grounds (and to use up the rest of his film). I had a feeling that this wasn't right, but he was so nice about it, he made me feel like I was being unreasonable by not complying. I was quite relieved when it was all over and put the matter behind me when my portrait shots (and the silky sheeted pictures) were delivered. That was until I was walking my children to school the next week, and there, to the mortification of all, pride of place in the middle of the photographers window, was a giant blown up picture of yours truly clad in the aforementioned sheet! How I wish I'd acted on my gut instincts.
On a more serious note you should listen to your gut. It has been reported by many victims of crime, especially rape victims that they had a 'gut feeling' that something was wrong, but they'd overridden the feeling rather than look foolish by running off. I now use my gut as first port of call when I'm negotiating and it rarely lets me down.
Read on to find out why researchers say we should trust our guts in business…..
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