You Probably Know the Answer Already

From The Secret to Kim Kardashian, reality TV stars, and millions of readers around the world, I’ve learned that people aren’t really looking for predictions, they’re looking for permission.

Hello, hello.

I woke up early this Sunday morning and felt the urge to write, so here it is.

For nearly two decades, strangers (and lovely strangers on the internet) have asked me for answers because I have shared wisdom online for such a very long time now.

How do I manifest more money?

How do I find love?

What’s the secret to getting unstuck?

How do I know if I’m on the right path?

What does 11:11 mean as a sign?

Every day, messages and DMs arrive from people hoping I can offer the missing piece of their puzzle. A sentence. An insight. A perspective that somehow makes life make sense again. And if I can help, I always will. It’s how I’ve created and built successful online communities for many years.

Listed to this as a podcast on Spotify or YouTube.

Over the years, my words have reached places I never could have imagined.

My work was shared by The Secret.

Even Kim Kardashian once shared one of my Dear Universe affirmations.

Reality TV stars, entrepreneurs, artists, musicians, actors, and people from all over the world have reached out looking for guidance.

And while all of that sounds very surreal to me even now, I’ve come to realize something:

Most people are asking different versions of the same question.

Am I going to be okay?

Last week Jon (my boyfriend) bought a box of fortune cookies home.

After dinner we’d crack open a fortune cookie and we were both surprised how accurate and mildly comforting the messages were.

Of course the text is so tiny for me, I had to grab my readers.

Side note: any other 40+ women noticing text looks a little smaller these days?

My last one said:

“You are creating a positive reality.”

Nice.

Anyway, recently I learned that fortune cookies weren’t originally created to predict the future at all. They were intended as small reflections. Little invitations to pause and see life differently.

And after all these years, I’ve come to realize something:

People don’t actually want predictions. They want permission. They want someone to write out tiny permission slips to trust themselves.

Permission to make the decision they’re avoiding. Permission to leave the shitty marriage. Permission to stay. Permission to begin again. Or perhaps permission to believe that what they want is possible.

In many ways, I’ve spent years packaging big truths into small reminders.

The funny thing is that most of the wisdom I’ve shared wasn’t something I invented. It was something I needed to hear myself most of the time.

The message that changed someone’s life on the other side of the world was often the very lesson I was learning in my own living room.

That’s the strange reciprocity of teaching. You offer what you’re discovering. You write what you’re trying to understand. You share what you’re still becoming.

And if there’s one thing I’ve learned after nearly twenty years of sharing my voice online, it’s this:

The answers you’re searching for are rarely hidden.

Most of the time, they’re waiting on the other side of a decision.

The most important thing is that you get off the fence and make a decision.

The future has a remarkable way of revealing itself once you’re willing to take the next step.

Trust yourself.

You probably know the answer already.

Speaking of which, if you want to download my latest FREE Audio Experience called How To Create Your Next Chapter you can do so here.

With Love,

Sarah Prout.