Three disciplines for trusting what you sense before you can explain it “Conviction and clarity don’t always arrive on the same timeline. Sometimes you sense something matters long before you can explain why. Honoring that gap—rather than forcing premature answers—is a discipline worth learning.” You know the feeling. Something keeps returning—a pull, a sense, a quiet certainty that won’t leave you alone. You can’t quite articulate it yet. You’re not ready to defend it in a meeting or explain it to your team. But it keeps surfacing: in quiet moments, during decision points, in conversations that linger longer than expected. This is what honoring conviction before clarity looks like in its earliest stage. Most leadership advice tells you to get clear first, then act. But what if conviction is meant to lead, and language is meant to follow? Honoring conviction before clarity arrives isn’t recklessness—it’s a skill. It’s the discipline of noticing what keeps returning, giving your language time to…