Ego vs Intuition: How to Hear the Voice of Your Gifts
Inside me, there are at least two voices. Probably more. But let’s start there.
One is loud, sharp, and ruthlessly certain. She’d make a great lawyer — quick, opinionated, unyielding. That’s the voice of my ego.
The other is strange, quiet, and harder to grasp. It floats around the edges of thought, landing sometimes like a whisper between my eyes. It doesn’t command; it gestures. Like: That way. That’s the voice of my gifts — the deeper intuition that knows what I’m here to become.
I didn’t know how to tell them apart for years. I wasted time mistaking my ego for wisdom, following its urgent certainty as if it were truth. Spoiler: it wasn’t truth. It was fear. It was protection.
And here’s what I’ve learned: the voice of your gifts doesn’t care about safety. It cares about becoming.
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Ego vs Intuition — Understanding the Two Voices
These two voices pull you in different directions. One wants you to stay small, secure, and acceptable. The other wants you to step into a life that stretches you beyond recognition.
Learning to distinguish between them changes everything — your business, your creativity, your relationships, your becoming.
The Voice of Your Gifts
Your ego is a master of safety. It speaks in absolutes:
“Don’t do that.”
“You’re not ready.”
“They won’t like it.”
“This isn’t good enough yet.”
It uses urgency, comparison, and control as its tools. It wants you to stay relevant, liked, and comfortable — even when that means betraying yourself.
Sometimes, it shows up disguised as superiority:
“I don’t need Instagram. That’s for people who try too hard.”
“I’m above marketing. My work speaks for itself.”
Ego isn’t inherently bad. But it’s inherently limited. It protects your personality, not your potential.
The Voice of Your Intuition
The voice of intuition — your gifts — sounds different. Softer. Stranger. It doesn’t shout; it suggests. It’s abstract and sometimes inconvenient.
It doesn’t care about your comfort. It cares about your becoming.
This is what I call visionary intelligence — the higher-mind knowing that speaks in nudges, metaphors, and images you may not fully understand yet. It invites you toward a life that feels unfamiliar, even unreasonable.
Every time I’ve listened, my life has expanded. My business was born. My body of work emerged. The conditions for my thriving revealed themselves.
But it has never once asked me to stay safe.
How to Know Which One to Trust
In real time, this isn’t always obvious. When I’m faced with a hard decision, I almost always hear my ego voice first. It sounds rational, grounded, and firm — and yet, it keeps me circling in familiar loops.
My intuition — the voice of my gifts — hums underneath. It’s quieter. Less urgent. And almost always asks me to do something I’d rather avoid. Something uncomfortable, inconvenient, unfamiliar.
The test is simple:
Ego prioritizes comfort.
Intuition prioritizes evolution.
The voice that unnerves you, stretches you, or dares you into becoming someone new — that’s the one to follow.
When Ego Masquerades as Gift
Here’s where it gets tricky: your ego can pretend to be your intuition, especially if you work in wellness or transformation.
It hides behind words like “alignment” and “integrity.” It frames avoidance as discernment. It keeps you small while convincing you you’re sovereign.
It says:
“Don’t post. Instagram sucks.”
“Don’t charge. Your work is sacred.”
“Don’t market. That’s capitalism.”
And while, yes, Instagram does suck sometimes and capitalism is broken, your gifts still want to exist in the world. They want to reach people. They want to live somewhere outside your notebook or hidden Google Drive folder.
The real question isn’t: Does this feel good?
It’s: Does this serve the becoming of my work?
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The Ego Death That Unlocks Creative Power
There comes a point when you realize: your life’s work isn’t about you anymore. You’re just the vessel.
And that changes everything.
You start making decisions on behalf of the work itself — for the thing trying to move through you. You market. You sell. You show up. Not because it’s easy, but because it’s what your gifts require to find expression.
That’s ego death: the shift from protecting your identity to serving your life’s work. And on the other side of it is true creative power.
Start Listening to the Voice of Your Gifts
Ask yourself:
Is this resistance rooted in discomfort or misalignment?
Is this voice trying to keep me safe, or move me forward?
What does my visionary intelligence say about this situation?
What would my gifts do, if they were in charge?
Every time I’ve followed the voice of my gifts, I’ve ended up somewhere truer. Not easier — never easier — but more aligned. More correct.
And every time I’ve listened to my ego dressed up as an inner sage, I’ve protected my work straight into obscurity.
Now, I follow the voice that unnerves me. The one that asks me to become someone I haven’t met yet. The one that says:
Do what needs to be done in service of what’s trying to come through you.
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Ego is loud, urgent, and protective. Intuition — the voice of your gifts — is quieter, visionary, and focused on your evolution.
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It’s your higher-mind knowing, the subtle guidance that speaks in images, metaphors, and desires — often before logic can explain it
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Ego death is the shift from protecting your identity to serving your life’s work. On the other side of it, creative power expands.