Trusting yourself and your intuition
... how this is the ultimate hack that will lead to personal and commercial success
If I could write another subtitle, it would be ‘and lead to unimagined possibilities’ which is what success or fulfilling your potential actually looks like.
Oh and you may well be financially successful as an (intentional) by-product too.
But this is way more satisfying than the money. ‘Being your authentic self’ is great fun - the saying is a bit jaded I know but let’s just say, you’ll know it when you feel it.
So this is not a straightforward ‘pitch’ but, as you’re reading this, it has caught your attention and, as you’ll discover, it’s both pretty grounded and not the latest 7 step plan to success.
By the way, if, at any point, there is a whiff of snake oil salesman in any of this, please call me out. You would be doing me and your fellow readers a service. I pride myself on sharing truthful, useful guidance as I best understand based on my own practices and years of working and living on this earth
This will be useful if you want to make a bigger change in your life such as changing career but knowing what you want to do; or starting a business. It is especially useful if you have been trying unsuccessfully to do this for years. You will be ready and have the desire to try a different approach.
You may just want to be happier and more at ease in your working life.
Grounded how?
This is based on my experience and that of my clients.
I wanted to create a business to allow me (financially) to leave my contracting career 14 years ago. I wanted to make a positive impact and especially given the climate for the past 5 or 6 years.
I wanted to use my natural talents freely and not limited by the business analyst box or the specific contract I was in at the time.
I had no idea that trusting myself was important or that I wasn’t being intuitive. I was a creature of rationality and logic so this language would not have caught my attention.
I wouldn’t have known what it meant to trust myself or that I wasn’t trusting myself.
Fast forward to today and I understand the practical benefits of trusting oneself.
Things have happened that I never would have imagined (or even said that I wanted).
I decided 3 years ago that I wanted to write a book and that I had something to say which was of real value (in progress at the moment - Grow Your Own Guru - How to trust your inner mystic).
I discovered that I had self-esteem issues which were reflected in how I limited my ambition and kept it small (this insight and its origins emerged in 2021 during a coach training session). The emergence of this book was one demonstration of what is possible when I recognized this issue.
Another unimagined possibility was the size of my ambition as my business evolved into Business Unusual. I found new confidence and desire to move beyond supporting individuals to discover unimagined possibilities. In additional I wanted to support businesses to perform better and understand how they and existing structures and behaviours are unwittingly causing damage and see the opportunities that emerge when trust, care, openness and curiosity are at the heart of the business.
And finally, last year, I started a free, volunteer led movement based on what I would have previously dismissed as a passing whim or just sat on, struggling with how to bring it into reality.
I founded #naturebeing and just started with a belief that it would grow in its own way and the vision of everyone reconnecting to nature on a regular basis was worth pursuing.
These unimagined possibilities are what I see emerging for my clients too. It can be as simple as a behaviour change. Doing something that you would have avoided previously because it made you nervous.
And these are accompanied by greater self knowledge as they uncover what is holding them back which is often simply doing things in their way and becoming aware of and not following what you should.
In short it’s about learning how to continue moving forward without knowing the route; having the toolkit to do this; recognising and not giving in to the fear.
I talked about this in 2022 when I declared my intention to write the book. You can read more here.
