Episode 130
130 When intuition "knowing" isn't enough.
When intuition "knowing" isn't enough.
Intuition business management is possible by following your intuition and feelings, signs that intuition provides you, and acting upon those. BUT there are times when you need to have more information, more concrete information to present to others, or you require more specifics to move into the action mode.
Key Points:
- When you need concrete steps to move forward, take a moment and ask the question, "What's next."
- See what comes up and do a "Gut check" before diving into far.
- If you don't get anything, immediately start on the most obvious or do a quick search for options and then "gut check the direction you're going."
- Keep it simple as you begin to build this muscle. Start with decisions that are not driven by stress where you can test the feeling you get and how it turns out.
- The goal is to get in practice to notice immediate feelings tell you yes or no for the direction you are heading.
Keep it simple; know that it takes practice to fine-tune your intuition to get the messages faster and faster. Your goal is to recognize as soon as possible, not to be perfect!
Transcript
Hi, and welcome to episode 130.
Speaker:Is there a time.
Speaker:When feeling.
Speaker:Or intuition.
Speaker:It's not enough.
Speaker:Is there a time when you need more?
Speaker:Than just your intuition.
Speaker:To move forward.
Speaker:Hmm.
Speaker:It's an interesting question.
Speaker:And one, we're going to answer here, so let's get into it.
Speaker:Hi, I'm Kathryn Mahoney, and I'm passionate about intuition
Speaker:business and living your best life and helping you navigate the
Speaker:ups and downs of the wild ride.
Speaker:We call life.
Speaker:I'm an entrepreneur intuitive advisor, dedicated to guiding others to success,
Speaker:winning national awards in business and leadership and featured in MSNBC
Speaker:USA today in the business journal.
Speaker:Just to name a few speaking to audiences, just like you.
Speaker:I teach successful business leaders in honing their intuition, creating
Speaker:certainty, and taking aligned action.
Speaker:I'll give you a straight talk with humor.
Speaker:Business, intuition and mindset are just a few of the topics we discuss here.
Speaker:Be ready for fun.
Speaker:Insightful journey with me, reveal hidden secrets, be challenged and inspired.
Speaker:This is the Clearly Kathryn podcast.
Speaker:So I was having lunch with a friend the other day, and we were talking about how.
Speaker:Feeling, I feel like this isn't right.
Speaker:I feel like we shouldn't move forward with, this is a valid thing to say.
Speaker:And we can recognize that.
Speaker:As intuition as our intuition is bringing all the information together.
Speaker:It just doesn't feel the right.
Speaker:Right way to go.
Speaker:And that's.
Speaker:The knowing that you have.
Speaker:And the experience brought together and it brings this strength in knowing.
Speaker:But there are also circumstances.
Speaker:When you need to somehow find a way.
Speaker:To back those feelings that intuitive knowing up.
Speaker:Now, I know this sounds counter intuitive to what I normally talk about here.
Speaker:But I thought it was a really great perspective.
Speaker:It was from an industry that does require having the fags, having details
Speaker:of where to move forward to and from.
Speaker:You can't just say, I feel this way in.
Speaker:Move it forward with, uh, accounting with law, with.
Speaker:Medical with there, certain things like that.
Speaker:You need to have some type of directions, facts, specifics.
Speaker:And so how do you balance that intuition?
Speaker:And having to back it up.
Speaker:Well, it's not that hard.
Speaker:Really.
Speaker:It's just understanding the difference in what circumstances you're in.
Speaker:Who you're presenting to and the direction that you need to go.
Speaker:Late a minute.
Speaker:This is starting to sound like we're starting to think about stuff.
Speaker:Well, that's the way business is.
Speaker:There's an awful lot of logic and thinking business, no matter how
Speaker:much I will talk about intuition.
Speaker:It still will exist.
Speaker:We still have to pay our taxes.
Speaker:Do our accounting, understand the law?
Speaker:I mean, it's just how it is technology.
Speaker:There's a certain element there.
Speaker:You can't do much about.
Speaker:So you do have to deal with things.
Speaker:How do you go about dealing with them?
Speaker:Well, if you have a team where you have someone you do to present to
Speaker:convince in some way, And not only convinced they may believe and trust
Speaker:you when you go out and exist the way we need to go, they're going to need
Speaker:to hear well, where do we need to go?
Speaker:And what are the options?
Speaker:And if you don't have the, and you don't know what that is,
Speaker:Is your feeling or your intuition?
Speaker:Very helpful.
Speaker:It is not.
Speaker:You know this, we all know this.
Speaker:So what do you do?
Speaker:Because sometimes with our intuition, we just know we're not
Speaker:exposed to go in one direction.
Speaker:It may give us a point of a new direction to go when.
Speaker:I may not know all the steps until we reach them.
Speaker:What that looks like.
Speaker:But there are circumstances that we do need to know.
Speaker:We do need to know what the next steps are.
Speaker:We do need to know.
Speaker:What happens next?
Speaker:What the options are and lay them out specifically.
Speaker:So how do we do that?
Speaker:And what does that look like in the management of our business?
Speaker:It's about relaxing and being open to finding those options.
Speaker:So I'll give you a name of a specific example.
Speaker:I was working with a partner.
Speaker:And we're talking about doing something together and she works a lot with
Speaker:intuition and people's personal lives.
Speaker:I work for a business.
Speaker:We feel like it's a great partnership.
Speaker:We've done a few things together.
Speaker:And we're trying to figure out the best way to do a partnership, the
Speaker:specific logistics of setting that up.
Speaker:What platforms we'll use, how money will be collected, how money will be dispersed.
Speaker:Oh, leads different detail things that do need to be worked out.
Speaker:But we ran into a few issues, a few questions that we felt like
Speaker:weren't answering our questions were.
Speaker:We're making things more difficult than they needed to be.
Speaker:And so it just felt like we'd hit a wall on this topic.
Speaker:And so we just looked at each other and threw our hands up and we're like,
Speaker:But we didn't throw our hands up.
Speaker:Oh, we're not going to do anything about it.
Speaker:We just said, let's just see
Speaker:What shows up?
Speaker:And there are certain things we're going to check into and check out
Speaker:the different technologies, but we're going to be open to maybe something
Speaker:outside of what we're already aware of.
Speaker:May show up.
Speaker:And what could that be?
Speaker:And so we're not going to stress about it.
Speaker:We're just going to see what it is and keep going with what we're doing.
Speaker:And so we did that and the first round of information, not so helpful
Speaker:in the second round of information.
Speaker:And then.
Speaker:Relaxing into it.
Speaker:Not over stressing, not panicking about it.
Speaker:Uh, solution showed up of a great platform that we both already use
Speaker:that had an option for us to use.
Speaker:And 10.
Speaker:We were done.
Speaker:So, this is what I'm talking about.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:And we did this just want to point out.
Speaker:This came about in about, I don't know, three or four days.
Speaker:So it wasn't as though we sat around, it did nothing.
Speaker:I want you to understand that when I say.
Speaker:Be quiet step away for a moment.
Speaker:I don't mean a moon 32.
Speaker:I just mean sometimes all you need is 10 minutes.
Speaker:Five minutes.
Speaker:15 minutes.
Speaker:An hour.
Speaker:At day or two.
Speaker:We were looking at stuff the whole time, but not hunting, not searching.
Speaker:Allowing things to show up at what might work.
Speaker:I want you to understand.
Speaker:That.
Speaker:When you get the knowing.
Speaker:When you get the information and you begin to act upon it.
Speaker:You still need to understand options as you move forward, you
Speaker:need to understand where to go.
Speaker:we follow the intuition to do something together.
Speaker:We acted upon it.
Speaker:We got the intuition, do something more together.
Speaker:Now we're trying to act upon what that is and we're S we stumbled a little bit,
Speaker:we struggled a little bit with that.
Speaker:But we weren't forcing anything to come together.
Speaker:I'm like, if it doesn't come together, doesn't come together.
Speaker:We'll be fine.
Speaker:We'll just keep doing what we're doing, how we're doing it.
Speaker:And she was like, yeah, that sounds good to me.
Speaker:So we weren't trying to force anything.
Speaker:We knew something would come together.
Speaker:And as things showed up for us to check out, we would check it out.
Speaker:So within a few days we have a solution.
Speaker:I want you to think about this.
Speaker:I want you to realize that stepping back from something doesn't mean
Speaker:you're dropping the ball completely.
Speaker:There are times there are circumstances.
Speaker:There just are that you're going to need to percent.
Speaker:Specific.
Speaker:Actionable factual.
Speaker:Things.
Speaker:That support.
Speaker:A knowing that you have.
Speaker:That's how it works and that is acting upon.
Speaker:It is not foreseen upon.
Speaker:If you get a knowing.
Speaker:A feeling that something isn't supposed to go a certain way.
Speaker:Uh, where is this supposed to go?
Speaker:What are the options?
Speaker:If it's not supposed to go that way, it's always supposed to go another way.
Speaker:What is that way?
Speaker:What does it look like?
Speaker:What are the options use your feeling and intuition.
Speaker:To find out what that is.
Speaker:It means looking into something and say, not that doesn't quite work.
Speaker:Nope, that doesn't quite work so that you know what that solution is because.
Speaker:If there isn't.
Speaker:One way to go.
Speaker:There's another way to go.
Speaker:What goes up must come down kind of thing.
Speaker:The ying and yang of this.
Speaker:There is something specific of a direction to go.
Speaker:Sometimes you need to be able to identify.
Speaker:There are specific circumstances.
Speaker:Start practicing.
Speaker:How to do that and what that looks like.
Speaker:Have fun with it.
Speaker:I'm always about having fun, a little bad, so let's have a little fun with it.
Speaker:If you have a knowing of not doing something.
Speaker:Then find the solution.
Speaker:If you get a knowing to do something, let's say you get a name of someone
Speaker:you're supposed to reach out to.
Speaker:I always use this one because I find it just as it's simple, easy way to start.
Speaker:So you're supposed to contact someone.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Then how are you supposed to contact them?
Speaker:Play a little game with this.
Speaker:Because it's as though you're going to present, we need to call George Smith.
Speaker:Great.
Speaker:Everybody goes great.
Speaker:Great.
Speaker:How do we reach George Smith?
Speaker:And you say, that's all I got for you.
Speaker:Cultured you get ahold of George Smith.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Maybe you're the person who's supposed to tell them how so go through.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Does George have a preference?
Speaker:Is there a way that you normally always talk to him?
Speaker:Is that.
Speaker:The best way to reach him, maybe lay them out and see how you feel
Speaker:about what really jumps out at you.
Speaker:Ask the question.
Speaker:Should I email?
Speaker:Should I text message?
Speaker:Should I call, should I go through social media?
Speaker:Ask the questions, see what starts coming up.
Speaker:If you're getting yes and knows if you're starting to lean to something.
Speaker:Write it down.
Speaker:Write down what, how it feels, write down what the experience is.
Speaker:Even if it's just a little note.
Speaker:I got the no, or yeah, it just didn't feel right.
Speaker:It doesn't matter.
Speaker:It doesn't have to be a novel.
Speaker:Doesn't have two paragraphs masking Burl out here.
Speaker:Just a little word or two.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Keep it really simple.
Speaker:But practice with that, uh, asking the question and getting the understanding
Speaker:of the feedback that you're getting.
Speaker:Because the more that you practice, the more that you
Speaker:identify, the more you clarify.
Speaker:The more often, you're going to give specific direction when you go.
Speaker:I don't think we should go this way.
Speaker:I think we should go this way.
Speaker:What does this way look like?
Speaker:Well, it means we're going to do this, this, this, and this.
Speaker:You don't want to just show up at the party and go, I don't think
Speaker:we should all go to dinner there.
Speaker:Great.
Speaker:Where should we go to dinner?
Speaker:Does everyone hate the person who's like.
Speaker:Well, I mean, anywhere is fine.
Speaker:I just don't want to go there.
Speaker:Well, where do you want to go?
Speaker:No, don't be that person.
Speaker:Give some suggestions, know what.
Speaker:Those suggestions feel like.
Speaker:So sit down, think about it.
Speaker:What feels good?
Speaker:What feels in alignment?
Speaker:What is your intuition telling you?
Speaker:And this is where clarity of decision-making.
Speaker:Comes through.
Speaker:The power of intuition in decision making is about.
Speaker:Being able to identify.
Speaker:What direction to go and what direction not to go.
Speaker:It's really that simple.
Speaker:We make things so complicated.
Speaker:We love to make things complicated.
Speaker:I always love to make things complicated.
Speaker:I try not to.
Speaker:And that's why I say keep it simple, because that is a mantra.
Speaker:I tell myself, simplify it.
Speaker:We live in a world that likes to complicate things.
Speaker:Don't complicate this.
Speaker:Make it simple.
Speaker:Don't try to make something work.
Speaker:Don't force something to go a certain way.
Speaker:Relax into it.
Speaker:Relax into it.
Speaker:Take a breath.
Speaker:Sometimes we just want to rattle off a bunch of information.
Speaker:And there's nothing to it.
Speaker:And then after a while, if you just keep jabbering away,
Speaker:People don't see the value.
Speaker:They don't see anything happening anymore.
Speaker:You can't just yabber away.
Speaker:You need to have something to it.
Speaker:And so what you need to do is stop great.
Speaker:You feel this way.
Speaker:Great.
Speaker:You have this intuitive.
Speaker:Feeling of not doing something a certain way.
Speaker:You have this intuitive feeling to do it a certain way.
Speaker:What do you mean.
Speaker:What is that certain way?
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:I want you to break it down, ask the question.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:If I don't do it this way.
Speaker:What does it look like?
Speaker:Maybe bring up three options.
Speaker:I write them down and see what it looks like.
Speaker:Look up a few things.
Speaker:See if it comes together.
Speaker:If it doesn't, it's just exit off options.
Speaker:Be open that it's guiding you to the right place to where you need to go.
Speaker:Every seemingly dead end is not a dead end.
Speaker:It's just a necessary off roading little side path that you take that brings you
Speaker:back to the path you're supposed to be on.
Speaker:And as you continue to refine.
Speaker:Your intuitive understanding and clarity.
Speaker:The quicker.
Speaker:And shorter.
Speaker:And less convoluted.
Speaker:You're off-roading track will be.
Speaker:Isn't that what we all want.
Speaker:If I'm going to go off roading, which happens.
Speaker:All the time, because it's on constantly refining them constantly honing.
Speaker:I'm always going to go.
Speaker:Off-roading.
Speaker:I always going to get thrown off in some way.
Speaker:It's just how it is.
Speaker:And I accept that as part of my ability to fine tune and hone my intuitive abilities.
Speaker:So the faster, my little off-roading Trek is the less convoluted
Speaker:and bumpy and crazy it is.
Speaker:The quicker I can go through these decisions, the faster I can come
Speaker:with clarity and decision the quicker I can move things forward.
Speaker:Off-roading is not about speed.
Speaker:I don't know if you've ever watched an off-roading track, but I highly
Speaker:suggest you take a moment and do.
Speaker:Watch them, they go slow.
Speaker:They back up, they turn it, they turn the wheels.
Speaker:It said.
Speaker:Or teeny, weeny bit.
Speaker:They, and they're getting these directions, these fine tuned directions
Speaker:of how to go over a bump, how to go over rock, how to angle cells.
Speaker:It's a slow.
Speaker:Process.
Speaker:Off-roading is not about speed.
Speaker:That's why I don't say speeding route.
Speaker:It's off-roading it's bombs.
Speaker:It's going over rocks.
Speaker:It's slowly making it through a river.
Speaker:It's slow, gentle, careful moving.
Speaker:And so off-roading is not the fastest path.
Speaker:But it is a necessary one because it slows us down.
Speaker:The rose a couple things at us.
Speaker:Makes us readjust quickly.
Speaker:So we can get back to our path with clarity and understand what our
Speaker:path is forward and where it go.
Speaker:So you are going to off-road a minute.
Speaker:So when you say I know.
Speaker:Great.
Speaker:That may lead you to a little bit of off-roading to identify
Speaker:what it is you need to do.
Speaker:Where it is you need to go and what the next step is, if you can't identify it.
Speaker:Then you're not quite sure where you're moving forward to.
Speaker:So part of that is allowing that slowing down.
Speaker:It may just be a short little.
Speaker:little John, it could be.
Speaker:Mile or two out there.
Speaker:It could be longer than that.
Speaker:The more you refine, the more you understand, the more you ask questions,
Speaker:the more you sit with these questions.
Speaker:And that's what I mean.
Speaker:I'm talking the longer.
Speaker:I'm not saying the longer you sit with these questions, I'm not
Speaker:saying the longer you sit with things, I'm not talking about time.
Speaker:I'm talking to.
Speaker:Well, the more often you take a moment to stop.
Speaker:Breathe.
Speaker:Relax.
Speaker:Ask the question is this the thing I move forward to?
Speaker:See how that feels.
Speaker:If you don't get anything, go down the road a little bit further,
Speaker:check it out a little bit more.
Speaker:That doesn't quite feel right?
Speaker:Nope.
Speaker:Next.
Speaker:Move on to the next thing.
Speaker:Don't question it.
Speaker:If you get clarity of like, Nope.
Speaker:Not not working move to the next thing.
Speaker:Nope.
Speaker:Not working moves the next thing.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Maybe it's not everything about it.
Speaker:Go through that.
Speaker:I'm not saying take days and weeks and months to go.
Speaker:Hmm, I'm going to sit with this for awhile.
Speaker:I'm talking about, get in the moment and ask, and the more you practice.
Speaker:Taking a moment and taking a breath.
Speaker:The faster you will move through them.
Speaker:The quicker you will come through.
Speaker:The sooner you'll get on your path.
Speaker:And you will waste a heck of a lot more time and you will look a whole
Speaker:lot smarter because you will have options you can bring to the table.
Speaker:Is that what you want, even if there are options that you need to
Speaker:know for yourself of what to do.
Speaker:Because there are times yes.
Speaker:That we can go through just.
Speaker:Gently following the path.
Speaker:And we don't have to ask a lot of questions.
Speaker:We just keep following through with the actions ahead.
Speaker:There are times in circumstances where eat is important.
Speaker:And necessary.
Speaker:To know the steps to the path forward.
Speaker:What are the specific actions?
Speaker:That need to be taken.
Speaker:What are the options available to move this forward?
Speaker:And so when we look at those options and we ask those questions,
Speaker:we get more clarity on it.
Speaker:The better you get at it.
Speaker:So practice was something simple.
Speaker:Practice with just who comes to mind, practice with small things.
Speaker:Practice with where are you going to go to lunch?
Speaker:I don't really care.
Speaker:Think of things where you go on.
Speaker:I don't know, but I definitely won't want to go to an Italian.
Speaker:Well, where do you want to go on?
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:Then play the game and practice identifying what feels right.
Speaker:And what doesn't.
Speaker:Take the breath and moments to practice that because the more
Speaker:often that you practice this.
Speaker:In non.
Speaker:Important stressful.
Speaker:Urgent circumstances.
Speaker:The easier it will be when you get into urgent, important,
Speaker:stressful circumstances.
Speaker:'cause you know, what all I want you to do is keep it simple.
Speaker:Be at ease.
Speaker:With yourself and allowing tuition.
Speaker:To light the path.
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