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Have you ever had a gut feeling and not listened? Think about those times when, for example, something told you not to take a certain route to where you were driving to, you took it anyway, and ended up stuck in traffic.

There are other circumstances where not listening to your gut can cost you big time—like forming a business partnership that never felt right from the beginning. Sometimes the consequences of ignoring our sixth sense can have even more dire consequences.

In our culture, we don’t quite give the power of intuition its proper due. It all seems to be about know-how and doing more. Of course, knowing as much as you can about how to reach a goal can only lend toward success. Likewise, we have to act in order to get anywhere. But there are times when we could have saved ourselves a lot of headache if we had just listened to our first instinct.

We have another source of intelligence within us that we tend to ignore. It’s the inherent wisdom of our spiritual nature. It can’t be measured, but it seems directly connected to the creative intelligence of the Universe. It’s deeper, more refined, more subtle, more instinctive, and more intuitive than thinking.

Intuition comes to us generally in feeling rather than logic. When a woman thinks “This guy gives me the creeps,” it usually pays for her to listen to herself. She is drawing on well-distilled experience and instincts that are a thousand generations deep. In the same way, when someone refuses to go along with the crowd, they are relying on something more than what the world praises as “smart.” 

Ask any really successful person and they will tell you success comes as much from intuition as from the brain. How many millionaires do you think go along with the crowd, or listen to the “conventional wisdom” that everybody else is following toward sameness? If you’re not utilizing this incredibly powerful inner guidance system that is at your service 24-7, you might as well be going through life with one hand tied behind your back.

The key is to get your mind to quiet down. Meditation helps, or even just really being present in the moment without labeling things as good or bad, right or wrong. Once the mind is quiet, wisdom can have its say.

The idea is to “stop thinking.” You’ve probably experienced this unexplainable phenomenon when you were trying to remember something but couldn’t. Finally, you stopped trying to “figure it out” and later on, out of the blue, the answer popped into your head.

Your spirit knows what’s right for you. It knows what directions you need to take for your highest good and the good of others. The thinking mind is an awesome tool that’s meant to be used, but it pales in comparison to the inner wisdom of your intuition.

Trust in yourself. Trust in the Universe. Open to your higher guidance and have the courage to follow this guidance, even if it seems to defy logic, which is usually the case.

Now it’s your turn:  What’s the most powerful example in your life where it paid to listen to your intuition, an automatic reaction to a situation where—even if you doubted it at first—proved to be the correct response?  If you have not been listening to your inner spirit lately, what can you do to get back in tune with that central part of you?  Tell me your thoughts below . . .

The textbook definition of “straight” is something that has no bends, angles or curves. Can we apply that same definition to life? Heck no!

There really isn’t such thing as “straight” in the universe. At the core of everything—including us—is energy, and energy doesn’t travel straight. It travels in waves. Imagine throwing a pebble into a lake, watching the ripples gliding across the surface.

Right after you throw your pebble, someone else also tosses a pebble in the same lake, and now the ripples from that pebble collide with the ripples from yours. That’s how everything in this universe works.

People, events, actions and reactions are constantly colliding, creating new pathways, new situations, new circumstances and new actions. The chaos of life makes it almost impossible for anyone to always go “straight” to where they planned.

Some people thrive on chaos and change, but most people don’t. They get frustrated, down, and ready to throw in the towel because they usually have expectations, and these expectations are usually damn near impossible to meet.

We might as well just accept it: the road to success comes with twists, turns, ups, downs, stops and reverses. Once we really understand and accept this, we’re less likely to be deluded into having unrealistic expectations that there’s a straight line to the top. So when we come across bumps, flat tires, and raised bridges along the way, we won’t be so quick to get upset or give up.  Getting off track is normal and therefore “perfect.”

You have to expect to spend a great deal of time making mistakes—or if it sounds better—“correcting yourself.”  There’s a reason why perfectionists have a hard time being highly successful. Perfectionism is a form of fear, based on fear of failure or the fear of disapproval.

If perfectionists don’t get it exactly right, then they don’t have to finish, follow through, and move on. They get to stay stuck “until its right,” but of course it’ll never be right, so they never have to face the possibility of rejection or disappointment.

We need to consider mistakes—rather than something to be avoided at all costs—instead as “feedback.” Mistakes are our perfectly natural learning curve. They are the feedback we need to get ourselves back on track.

Then we can do the same thing we already know we need to do in order to keep moving forward: take action! Those actions will produce results, sometimes more mistakes. Then we just get that feedback, use it to correct our course again, and then take more action.

This is the non-linear cycle toward success. As long as you use this cycle—and persevere—it’s virtually impossible to fail.

Remember, we’re all ripples in the lake of the universe. You never know how a comment, observation, or minor detail can change the course of your life or another’s!

 Now It’s Your Turn!

“Timing is everything.”

We’ve all heard that saying, but what exactly does that mean? Is it luck, coincidentally taking advantage of a situation that happens to present itself?

The power of intuition can never be underestimated, and instinct can only help in getting your timing right. But good timing isn’t always just about being in the right place at the right time. It’s also a skill that can be learned, and sometimes, just takes a little present moment awareness.

It can be as simple as persuading someone by listening to them, waiting a few seconds to show that they’ve been heard, and then presenting your case. Or it can be as common as sense can be. For example, it’s not a good idea to plant things in the winter-time. Plants grow better in the spring.

In business, good timing means matching your product or service to the wants and needs of the current marketplace. Right place, right time. Think of it this way; business ideas and opportunities are like cars. You have your NASCAR speed demons, your beat-ups that make you worry whether or not you’re going to make it to where you’re going, and everything in-between.

If you’re trying to make money fast, are you trying to create your riches with a race car or a jalopy? If you don’t have a concept or at least one product or service that’s super hot right now, your chances of creating wealth quickly diminish.

Choosing the right vehicle at the right time is a rare and highly profitable skill that can be learned.

Unfortunately, most people hop on a trend when it’s already too late. On the other hand, being too early is no better. You have to learn how to gauge and time the market. You have to know when to get in, and when to get out!

Your intention must be to get in on a “ground-floor opportunity,” meaning demand is high and supply is low. That’s when the elevator is going up. When supply overtakes demand, time to get off the hell off!

Copy someone who is making a mint right now. You can find a new concept and do the same thing they’re doing, or improve upon it. Use the original as a proven blueprint to success. Another simple but incredibly fast way to make a fortune fast is called the Piggyback technique. Instead of copying someone else, you affiliate with someone or something that’s already a winner. It brings new meaning to the phrase “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!”

It’s often faster and easier to affiliate with a company that’s already up and running rather than to start from scratch. Why reinvent the wheel? They may have exclusive products or a major distribution network in place, rare technology, or expensive production facilities already established.

Can you think of an easier way to “get rich quick” than to have the rights to a hot, highly-in-demand product, and then market the hell out of it? Of course, you’ll want to become a master at marketing, and that’s another topic we can talk about for days.

Timing is everything. If you choose the right product at the right time, your road to wealth will be decidedly faster and easier!

Maybe it already has for some of you. Please share your experiences, insights and examples of good business timing!