If you’ve poked around my site recently, you’ve noticed the big changes. New graphics, new words, new ideas. This week I thought I’d share the backstory and my vision for this adventure.
Recently, I was on a group call with my coaching mentor, Martha Beck, and we were discussing how to serve seemingly unrelated groups of people. Namely, I am keenly interested in serving people who want to discover and consciously apply their intuition AND people who want to market their businesses online, particularly through social media like blogging. But I couldn’t imagine those would necessarily be the same folks – one was very right brain and one was very left brain. But Martha chimed right in and shouted “Psychic bloggers! You could specialize in helping psychic bloggers!”
Now there’s nothing like a friendly mocking to make me act like a dog with a whiff of a pork chop. I could not let go of the idea of integrating these two missions.
Then I had a memorable dream a few nights later. In the dream, I repeatedly approached a mirror but I wasn’t tall enough to see in the mirror. It wasn’t just any mirror. It also acted like a window. I knew it would be great to be able to see in and through that mirror but in the dream I just wasn’t big enough.
The next day I realized: there ARE people who want to be purposeful and intuitive about their calling AND who want to use everything that the new forms of media have to offer in order to share it with the world. And some of them will think I’m the bee’s knees because I can be their one stop shop for cultivating the delivery of their dream. Suddenly, I felt bigger and ready for the dream-mirror with the vision it offers.
So here I am: bringing geeky back, in a weird woo-woo way. I am thinking about how intuition is an essential skill for each one of us, now more than ever. I’m also chewing on how to make social media a cornerstone of business development and delivery. Most importantly, I am thinking about how intuition can guide the use of technology and social media for entrepreneurs.
One definition of engineering is “the design and manufacture of complex products.” Do you want to engineer social and information products for your business driven by your own powerful intuitive guidance? That’s intuitioneering. And it is way more exciting than a pork chop.
Even better, intuitioneering is already working. The current class of my Bootcamp for Baby Bloggers is a great example. We start each week with a “Writing Muse” exercise to inspire original and fluent blogging. Participants are taking control of their online marketing in ways that are completely comfortable and manageable for them – because their objectives are products of their personal intuitive guidance. The baby bloggers truly inspire me and I am moved by the fresh voices they are bringing to their fields.
Please let me know how you are putting your intuition to work. While we’re at it, tell me about your dream-mirror, too. Psychic bloggers welcome.
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This baby blogger thinks you are the “bees knees”… I can’t tell you how much I look forward to our weekly classes…. What a gift they have been. Yay Laurie!
If intuition is the hunch, the sixth sense, the thin slicing, the unexplained force that drives us to something that we later try to *explain* … well, in our business, it’s in gear every day.
I use intuition as a starting point. It’s the idea to be explored, the suspicion to be investigated, the straw man to be toppled.
And yes, it feels a little mercenary — aligning with outside forces (evidence) to battle an inner conviction. But sometimes, the evidence is lacking or contrary. You’re left with a feeling that maybe you’re right. Or: This is an idea that could work.
This is it
Make no mistake where you are
This is it
Your back’s to the corner
I second Simone’s comment! I’m so glad I followed my intuition to you, Laurie! It’s made such a difference as I get clearer on my mission. As I was reading this blog, I suddenly heard that Kenny Loggins song in the background & thought you might like this piece of the lyrics:
This is it
The waiting is over
No room to run
No way to hide
No time for wondering why
It’s here
The moment is now
Michael: Wise as always – thanks for taking time to comment. “You’re left with a feeling that maybe you’re right” really messed with my right brain / left brain. It sounds like a lyric! I’m thinking there’s a country song in there. “If you don’t turn around, then I’m not gonna fight…” “If we could only agree, then we could be tight…” They only get worse from here.
You’ve hit it – what about the times when the evidence isn’t obvious. Where do we summon that conviction? Experience, I’d say. I do think we can learn skills though that help us connect with that conviction and build up experience in the meantime.
Simone & Marie: So glad you are both benefiting from the classes. We are all having fun, aren’t we? You are BOTH amazing! Thanks for your comments.
Hi,
I am a baby blogger. Very interested in everything you are talking about. I’m glad I found you.
My son and I do intuition exercises before bed each night. Yesterday I asked him where is intuion is…”it’s in my bones mom…in my bones. It’s deep deep inside of me” I don’t think life gets any better than this. I look forward to following you.
Onward,
Kimberly Kyle Gilligan
Kimberly, welcome! Thanks for your comment and for helping me find YOUR blog which is brilliant. Love that your son can feel his intuition deep inside. Onward together indeed!