Three keys, a quote and an invitation
One
My partner is one of the most successful sports coaches (in Europe at least), and I first met him when I interviewed him for my book about intuition,
As an example of his success, his team just won the silver at the European Handball Championship this month. They also won the silver in the Olympics in 2024.
He has built a pretty solid professional intuition over the years. Intuition – InnSæi – is what brought us together, so you can imagine that it often comes up as a topic in our conversations.
He offers fantastic examples in my book about how “being present best prepares us for the unexpected”, e.g. in a handball game where millions of people are watching and your job may be on the line if you don’t take the right decision. And, your team needs to trust your intuition without hesitation.
Two
Here’s what a recent conversations cooked up for us, as a way to explore and talk about people’s relationship with their intuition. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this.
So let’s say you’ve recently had the following thought:
‘I knew I should have done (xx)!!’
Big or small, think what the “xx” is in your case?
We had a few recent examples on our own.
Write your answers down, if you can. It helps to see them in front of you.
Three
Now think how often this (“I should have done (xx)!!”) might have come up for you over the course of a year, in the last 12 months?
Think of examples both from your personal and professional life.
How would things have gone differently in the last 12 months or so, if you had trusted your intuition?
Now that you’ve thought about the times you didn’t listen to your gut feeling or intuition in a year, how do you think this has affected your course / life / decisions?
A quote:
“Intuition helps me release myself from my own plans and get a different perspective on things, to be open to the unexpected… If you are open to taking decisions based on your InnSæi and they turn out to be right more often than not, then you get more and more confident following it. But naturally the knowledge and experience we have plays an important role in how good our InnSæi is. The people you work with also learn to trust in your hunches; at least if they more often than not have worked out for the team…“
― Alfreð Gíslason in InnSæi: Heal, revive and reset with the Icelandic art of intuition, p. 175-176.
An invitation
Wisdom is asking the right questions. Clarity comes with presence and heightened awareness about how and to what we pay attention to.
My invitation this week is for you to:
Answer the following questions. Give yourself maximum 2 minutes to answer each.
1. What is it that sometimes stops you from trusting in your own judgement?
This is one of the most important question to ask ourselves.
2. What do your answers tell you about the distance between you and your authentic self?
Experience often gives us the confidence to follow our intuition. And, that confidence often grows with age.
But not always. We can e.g. train our intuition from a young age. And, our experiences can also result in the opposite, in undermining our trust in our own judgement.
When does your experience serve to strengthen your intuition? When does it weaken it? Do you know?
No matter your answers, it’s important to know that these are all things we can work to improve.
Thank you for reading, as always, I’d love to hear your thoughts and questions. If you are enjoying reading this, are curious to find out more and think others might be, please do share!
With love & respect,
