There are only two steps we need to take to grow our intuitions.

1. Get guidance from our intuition.

2. Act on our intuition.

Everything I teach my clients to do revolves around one of these two steps. EVERYTHING. If we want to be masters of intuition, we must do both steps consistently.

But what happens when the people we care about most, our friends and family, contradict our intuition? How do we deal with this, and how do we deal with the uncertainty that comes with doing something illogical when we don’t have as much external support as we want?

In 2007 I decided to move from Kansas, where I grew up, to Arizona. I was walking home from a class, and it was cold and rainy outside. I was miserable. I hate the cold and I despise rain. It occurred to me while I was walking that I didn’t have to live in Kansas. I could move somewhere else, and that somewhere else didn’t need to have rain OR cold. It took me about a week to figure out where I wanted to move and which college I wanted to attend in Arizona. My friends and family, wanting to protect me, pointed out all the reasons it wasn’t a good idea.

1. I didn’t know anyone in Arizona.

2. I had never been to the city I wanted to move to.

3. College tuition was much more expensive out of state.

4. I had a chronic condition, and if something happened to me or I got sick, I would have no support, and no one local would check on me.

All of these were true, so why did I move in spite of what my friends and family were concerned about?

Faith

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

We don’t have to understand the “why” of what we’re doing. We only have to know that it’s beneficial to do it. We don’t have to know the end destination to know that it’s somewhere we want to be. It’s easy for us to get caught in analysis paralysis, especially when we taking action outside our comfort zone, but the important part is to have faith.

To be honest, I had no clue why I was being led to Arizona. My rubric for choosing the city and state had more to do with climate than any other factor, and the closest family I had to where I was living was a nine hour drive away.

All I knew was that everything felt right about it, and that’s what I held onto. When someone started asking me a question, I’d go back and see how it felt to go to Arizona, and if it felt good, I stuck with my decision.

I understood that there was a bigger picture than the one I could see, and it was bigger than what my friends could see.

I trusted the big picture, and I had faith that my intuition was going to lead me somewhere amazing.

It did. The two years I spent in Arizona were positively transformational, and without making that move, I would not be where I am today.

What is your intuition telling you to do that your friends and family are telling you not to do? Are you ready to transform?

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