ONE SPIRIT COMMUNITY

By Morgan Langan

Using intuition can heighten your understanding of how to be more effective in business and life. Intuition amplifies your awareness to make the most of every action–every endeavor. Said another way, it’s simply a matter of getting out of your mind exclusively and moving fully into experience. The greater the emphasis you place upon your analytical mind, the greater the tendency becomes to disregard the unlimited potential which exists in addition to your mind. There’s so much more for us when we delve into experiencing life in this way. By not limiting our experiences to using logic and our five senses, we allow new meaning to flow into every aspect of life.

As a reminder, applying intuition to business isn’t new. The world’s greatest achievers embrace Napoleon Hill’s research about intuition and its befitting position in the workplace. Before scientific proof existed, Thomas Edison used techniques to enter the theta state of enhanced creativity and problem solving. He was famous for his catnaps during which he solved problems relating to his inventions. He was actively and consciously engaging his intuition.

Now that we share a common understanding about intuition, let me introduce the concept of a personal Belief Positioning System (BPS). The technological analogy of this personal system is the GPS (global positioning system). Just like a GPS, we have an intuitive guidance system within us. I call it the BPS.

It’s a system whereby we position ourselves in relation to our vision of our life. This system, when properly activated will guide us to reach our highest potential on this globe at this point in our lives. Fortunately, as with a GPS, we don’t need to understand how it works technologically for it to work.

The BPS and the GPS are quite similar in their functionality. Just as one needs to program a GPS, beliefs are the programs, which run your BPS:

* Beliefs regarding my life skills, lessons and resources, become my starting point

* Beliefs about my goals and life purpose, become my destination

* Intentions determine which specific routes I may want to take and which sites I want to see along the way.

Our BPS lets us know where we are at any given point along life’s journey. Doing the work of coming to this integration of our beliefs to produce behavior is like the programming that occurs when we decide, I’m going to program my GPS system; I’m in Sedona, Arizona and I want to go to Las Vegas, Nevada I program in that directive; I know where I am, I know where I want to go and it shows me turn-by-turn exactly how I’m going to reach my destination.

Likewise, we program our belief positioning system. Technically, we may not understand how it functions, yet we can trust that it will function for us properly to guide us in making all our important life decisions. Let me give you an example of how I use my personal BPS:

I programmed my personal BPS as follows:

1.) I established my starting point by honestly assessing skills, lessons and resources.

2.) I declared my life purpose- “To assist business leaders to become more conscious”

3.) I clarified my intentions, (being specific here is vital) I intend to write this book.

Once this decision is made, I don’t have to be consumed by all the “hows.” I can simply trust that my BPS system will guide the way. The key is to declare the WAY–MY WAY while inviting the universe to show me the hows. I’m constantly asking employees to participate with me to reach their highest potential and, likewise, meet the goals that we are all coming together to achieve. Many people who I admire very much speak very highly of allowing intuition to guide life. They say it comes in many forms:  a gut feeling, hunch, hit or the sixth sense. Whatever this experience is for you, the first step is to declare The WAY!

It is time to focus intuitively on where you want to head in your life. It is vital to focus on the programming that takes us to where we say we want to go. If I want to go to Las Vegas and input Los Angeles by mistake, do I blame the GPS system or do I blame my programming? That’s the importance of ensuring that we’re crystal-clear on the programming, which, in this case, is our belief system. That’s why we address them first. They contain the programming that eventually gets us to where we say it is we want to go; our highest potential. This intuitive component allows an entirely new aspect into our current experience; one that makes everything in life function better.

This intuitive guidance model becomes valuable when you multiply your usual cognitive efforts by the power of your intuition. You’re no longer limited to simply adding another variable. You’re multiplying the effects of what you’re already manifesting in the world by the unlimited potential of being connected to who you really are. The impact on your business is exponential.

Intellectual Buy-in Frees Your Intuition:

Now that we’re poised for a new paradigm shift, we need what I call an intellectual buy-in. This is the buy-in and agreement of your analytical/ logical mind. Our minds seem to need to know what is possible before they are willing to commit to a new practice. What’s funny to me is to speak of the mind as if it is its own entity, but in many ways, it is!

Essentially, it needs to approve of the notion that there’s more information available than what’s coming in with the physical senses. With that intellectual buy-in, your intuition is freed up and intuition can be incorporated into your overall business approach. With time, we begin to fine-tune a new skill that supports us in all the decisions, all the processes, all the different aspects of flourishing leadership.

Of all the books I’ve read, there are three qualities that successful leaders embody:

1. They are extremely driven to succeed. Their desire for success is intense. They have an underlying fixity of focus; they eat, breathe, think, and dream business.

2. They have a very clear sense of purpose along with the discipline necessary to act and carry out their plan. Without exception, they don’t let anything get in their way.

3. They have a strong intuition and know how to put to use information that they receive from all sources.

Agreed on by many, these are the crucial elements to being successful in your own business. The last one is what sets the few apart from the mediocre masses. This is the realm of the Getty’s, the Rockefeller’s, the Forbes and the Gate’s. Interestingly, these are the same three qualities listed as prerequisite to reaching an enlightened state known only to sages and saints according to 7,000 years of Vedic tradition. Perhaps business is a Spiritual Path!