Learning to love intuition
One of the strange things about growing into my role as a clergy person (and thus as a designated leader/decider/tie-breaker/blame-taker) is learning to trust my intuition.
Now, I am generally a highly intuitive person ("Intuitive" is the most stable of my Myers-Briggs characteristics), which is both a blessing and a curse: I "know" things before I have actual evidence on which to base them, which can lead to a lot of second-guessing myself when I want to be sure. When it comes to parish work, I also don't have much experience using my intuition, and so I feel like I am making decisions in the dark or based on very little actual evidence. It's only when I look back that I realize that my intuition has already been serving me: my instincts are apparently better-honed than I realized.
Furthermore, my attempts to get answers from those with experience often ends with "well, it's a judgement call" or "it depends on the situation", which is another way of saying "you'll need to develop an intuitive judgement about how to handle these things."
And so I am learning to love my intuitiveness, and slowly figuring out when I can trust my intuition and when I need to be careful and get more data. Another item for the "they didn't teach me this in seminary!" list...
Now, I am generally a highly intuitive person ("Intuitive" is the most stable of my Myers-Briggs characteristics), which is both a blessing and a curse: I "know" things before I have actual evidence on which to base them, which can lead to a lot of second-guessing myself when I want to be sure. When it comes to parish work, I also don't have much experience using my intuition, and so I feel like I am making decisions in the dark or based on very little actual evidence. It's only when I look back that I realize that my intuition has already been serving me: my instincts are apparently better-honed than I realized.
Furthermore, my attempts to get answers from those with experience often ends with "well, it's a judgement call" or "it depends on the situation", which is another way of saying "you'll need to develop an intuitive judgement about how to handle these things."
And so I am learning to love my intuitiveness, and slowly figuring out when I can trust my intuition and when I need to be careful and get more data. Another item for the "they didn't teach me this in seminary!" list...