A big misconception about tapping into your intuition
It doesn't always have the answers
The #1 thing I’m here to do is help people tap back into their own inner authority.
You don’t need a coach to tell you what to do.
You need a coach to help you build more access pathways to the best, smartest, kindest, wisest, “already knows what to do next” version of you — which already exists inside of you!
But here is one big misconception that people have about tapping into their wise intuition and inner authority…
They think their intuition always has the ANSWER.
They think their intuition is like a crystal ball 🔮 or fortuneteller 🧙♀️
That you can ask it any question and it will just give you the perfect, correct, divinely right answer if you can just believe and focus and think positively enough.
Now sometimes, your intuition DOES have an answer.
It’s that little voice saying, “This relationship isn’t right for me.” Or “Something is off about this job.” Or “Don’t rent this apartment, keep looking.”
But there are lots of times when you’re intuition WON’T have the answer because you simply don’t have enough data or experience in your brain for it to formulate one!
Sometimes, when you tap back into your inner authority and listen to your wise intuition, the thing it has to give you is…
A question. “I thought I wanted that, but DO I? Now I’m not sure.”
A prickly conflict. “Should we pursue these two big goals in parallel, or one at a time? I can see the argument for both sides, and I’m not sure which way to do it.”
A preference. “God, I hate scheduling meetings. I’d rather be talking to customers or helping my team.”
A yellow flag. “That was kind of a weird thing that they said… Need to keep an eye on this.”
A gap. “I’m going in circles. I seriously don’t know enough to come to an answer here.”
So when I tell you to tap back into your inner authority, I’m not saying that doing that will necessarily yield “the answer” or a strong sense of certainty or conviction.
It will sometimes — when your brain has already done the analytical work to come to a conclusion.
And sometimes, you’ll tap into your intuition and it will show you that the analytical work to come to the answer is still in progress!
I want you to think of yourself as the team lead and your intuition, or your Automatic Brain, as your rockstar analyst.
This analyst is really freaking good at their job. They are your eyes and ears on the ground. They take care of SO many things for you so that you can focus on the essentials.
You can give them a task and most of the time, they run with it very successfully. They’re even super proactive and take care of plenty of things without even being told.
And when you get stuck and you ask your rockstar analyst a question, sometimes they’ve already done all the work and they can give you a confident answer that is totally spot-on (even if it’s scary to hear).
And other times, you’ll ask your rockstar analyst a question and you’ll find out that they’re still partway through their analytical process. In fact, THEY may have gotten stuck and want YOUR help and guidance.
After all, this is a partnership — you and your Automatic Brain!
In which case, if this was a team situation, you would jump in and help.
Your analyst is killing it. They got so far by themselves. They raised some really great points and have some awesome hypotheses.
And now it’s time for you guys to work together to get things over the finish line :)
My #1 aim as a coach is to help you build a productive, friendly, trusting working relationship with your own brain.
There are two characters living inside you.
There’s YOU — aka your Deliberate Brain — which are the things happening inside you that you can control.
And there’s your Automatic Brain, which generates tons of thoughts and feelings and urges and intuitions constantly inside you, without your conscious intention, control, or effort.
It never turns off. You can’t turn it off even if you try.
Your relationship with your Automatic Brain — your relationship with everything that’s happening automatically and uncontrollably inside of you — IS your relationship with yourself.
It’s the only relationship you’re going to have from the day you’re born till the day you die. It’s the one constant in your life.
It’s the most important relationship in your life.
Improving that relationship unlocks everything else you want.
And I teach you, step by step, a simple, repeatable toolkit to help you make your relationship with yourself the best relationship of your life.
So come talk to me, and let’s start today :)
What my clients have to say…
“I think the biggest transformation is not hating my brain.
Now, I work with it and am like, ‘Oh, right, it's doing this to protect me. Thanks, brain!’
I love that I have this relationship with my brain that's like a partnership.”
—Client | CEO, PE-backed company
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