Intuition: The secret to your career success

For far too long, we moderns have relied on our analytical/logical brain to make important life decisions. It is my belief that our imaginative/creative brain holds key to better, smarter and more soulful decisions. This is because right side of brain, which loves creativity---taps into your intuitive nature. Take your career for instance. How could following your intuition make you more successful? Because you will be following your true internal compass---one that leads you to best career and a more fulfilled life. The word intuition means “in to you” in Latin. Florence Scovel, a theologian, once said, “Intuition is spiritual faculty that doesn’t explain; it seemingly points way.” It’s also been said that intuition is your divine Spirit talking to you. If we stop for a moment and acknowledge this, we realize incredible perspective we have. Unfortunately, this is a perspective we often choose to ignore because it is an undeveloped skill. Using your intuition when making important decisions allows you to move along your career path easily and effortlessly. You don’t have to struggle and worry, because things fall naturally into place when you follow your inner nature. Developing your intuitive guidance (your inner voice) is essential to smart decision-making and career choices, and includes balancing your cognitive (thinking) abilities with your affective (feeling) abilities. Synthesize information from your head and your heart, and bring them into your consciousness. You only have to learn how to develop these powers and I promise that it will become second nature to you. The first step is obviously to become aware that you contain this amazing power. But you must consciously choose to use it! Next, you have to realize that when dealing with matters of work, there can be some discrepancies between what mind thinks and what heart feels. When we think about work, we focus on what we should do so that we can pay bills, etc., which only takes into account practical side. When we feel about work, we focus on what we want to do and consider impractical, such as moving to a foreign country. We very rarely take time to see how two sides can meet and form a whole new possibility. When making a major life decision, such as, “What should I do as my life’s work?” it is pretty safe to say that our equilibrium is all out of whack. And we tend to do one of two things: We either throw out all rational behavior altogether or block any and all emotions from our consciousness. We need to learn to align these two extremes, balance them, and make decisions from a true state of knowing, which is our intuition. You can learn to take these two seemingly opposing faculties and fuse them to have singleness of purpose and direction. The best way to do this is to be clear on what you are looking for from your career, so that you can then allow your intuitive nature to take over. The key is to believe that your higher self sees what is best for you. Indeed, Spirit is trying to send you messages, but you must learn to open up and receive information in order for it to make a difference in your life. Once you have learned to have faith in this process, your heart and mind will function together for greater harmony than you ever dreamed possible. By following your intuition, you become empowered. When you are empowered, you trust that you know right thing to do—despite what other people might say. You look within yourself for direction. Dis-empowered people look for answers outside of themselves. They turn to others to find answers to their life, and thus become confused and often misguided. Confused people are easy to spot---they tend to change their minds almost on a daily basis. It stands to reason that if you are dis-empowered and confused, you will not be making decisions with clarity and focus. If you are like most people, you prefer one faculty (thinking or feeling) over other. People tend to use one they are most comfortable with, but sometimes it is necessary to look at situation through your “weaker” one.

Failing to plan is failing period.

When launching your own business whether it be on or offlline there are many issues that need to be carefully considered. In my opinion it is far to easy to just launch a website and hope that traffic starts to flow in. Launching an online business is almost same as launching an offline business (maybe harder). Not many people consider designing a business plan, in my opinion this is a critical mistake. If you think about it, starting a business is like writing a book. A book needs an outline and research, same with building a house...lay out a foundation and building process goes that much smoother. Conduct a survey to find out what people REALLY want in your industry, not what you THINK they want. You’ll be able to have a much better idea on how to build your business, after all, a business caters to consumers and consumers dictate for most part what happens in your given market. In this day and age we are lucky, for we have internet to automate our businesses and speed research time up, but lets not forget about offline world as well. Often facts and figures collected from internet do at times fall short of being 100% accurate and factual, this is where you should back away from your computer and make some calls to people who are experts in field your researching. This way you will know for sure that research you’ve done on internet can indeed be confirmed as factual and correct, or you may be surprised to know that some of information you’ve collected from internet does indeed contain “factual holes and misguided guesses”. You should never