The Top Ten Secrets Highly Successful People Know That You May Not
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Secret #6   Develop, Trust, and Honor Your Intuition

According to Webster’s dictionary, intuition is the direct awareness or knowledge of something without conscious attention or reasoning. I strongly disagree that this process has to be unconscious. It is my experience that we can become much more conscious of this gift and its’ use. One of my personal goals this year is to become more straightforward in aligning my words and actions with my intuition. Many times in life, we intuitively know what we need to do to make a certain situation in our life better, who we can trust and not trust, or when it is time to move on from a job or a relationship. All too often, though, we ignore, avoid or tip toe around these inner truths. By side stepping or ignoring what we know, we sabotage our success, prolong negative situations, or even create illness in our body by the stress that then develops as a result of not listening to our inner knowing. Often, we circumvent our intuition because if we respect it, that might mean putting ourselves in an uncomfortable situation in order to honor it. Listening to what we know as our truth requires honesty, risk, and courage. Are you up for the challenge?

Extremely successful entrepreneurs and great leaders admit to using their intuition to guide them in their decisions. Many of the most successful people I know have used expressions like “My gut just didn’t feel right about the direction we were heading” or, “I had a vision and I saw this new way of doing something.” I am wondering why more companies do not train their people in intuition development. Creativity, innovation, better business decisions, and ultimately higher profits would be the result of encouraging the development and use of this vital skill.

Even the successful entrepreneurs and leaders who admit to listening to their gut may not be fully conscious of all the ways their intuition communicates with them or even with where that gut feeling came from in the first place. What if we committed to not only actively initiating the use of our intuition, but in consciously choosing to develop it and learn all the ways that it communicates?

Imagine the time, energy, money and resources that would be saved both in our personal lives and within companies if we enlarged our knowledge of and honored this power within us. Depression and anxiety are prevalent in our society. I believe it is our lack of connection to, and honoring of our own inner truths that cause this. Why wait until you are 40+ years old to find your true path in life? Why wait to implement that vision, product or service that you see in your mind’s eye? Why pretend that you trust someone that you do not really trust? My suggestion is to go for the bull’s eye now. Let your intuition be the master and your logical mind be the servant. Let your intuition lead you and allow your logical mind to assist in sequencing the steps that honor the guidance.

Do you know all the ways your intuition communicates? Are you ready to take giant leaps either in your personal life or as a company? Designs To Grow can assist in enhancing your knowledge of and experience with this valuable skill.

Read what the CEO of Capital One has to say about the value of intuitive guidance…..

As Richard Fairbank, CEO at Capital One puts it, “Finding a visionary strategy you believe as a leader is a very intuitive thing. There are many things a leader can’t predict using data. How do you know what you will need to have in three years? Yet, you’ve got to start development now or you won’t have it when you need it. Our company hires brilliant data analysts; we have one of the biggest Oracle data bases in the world. But at the end of the day, I find that all that data does is push us further out in the frontier where its’ uncertain all over again.” Page 42 Primal Leadership, by Daniel Goleman

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Book of the Month:

“Practical Intuition: How To Harness the Power of Your Instinct and Make it work for You”   by Laura Day

***If anyone is interested in a monthly book club using only books for propelling personal growth, please contact me. I’d like to meet once per month during lunch and use a coach approach as we discuss the books. We can meet on a telephone bridge line to make it easy for everyone to attend.

*** I am also available to do team meetings for your group based around a particular book. Using a coach approach, for book discussions, more effectively incorporates the material into the teams learning.