A good entrepreneur is able to access their intuition in running and growing their animal business. That said, so many entrepreneurs we meet are not in touch with their intuition — or are skeptical (to say the least) in trusting it when making decisions. In this episode, we’re going to talk about how to access and nurture your entrepreneurial intuition.

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Cara Taylor Swift.

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And it's Kara with Fast Horse photography.

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Hello, Kim, how are you today? Doing

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good. My intuition tells me that this

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episode is gonna get very interesting for both of us.

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Yeah, my gut feeling is telling me that I'm

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probably going to be just hanging out, put my head on the

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desk and taking a nap and occasionally going that's a

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great idea, Kim or excellent. I love that because this is your

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cup of tea 100%. And this is my awkward zone. So take it away,

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Kim and I will listen and take notes. Okay,

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well, hopefully you're gonna have some things to

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add, because I bet you use your intuition as an entrepreneur

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more than you think you do. And that's the topic for this

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particular episode today is tapping into your

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entrepreneurial intuition, which by the way, is the same as your

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other kind of intuition, right, talking about focusing that

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intuition in on growing your business or running your

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business or making good business decisions. A lot of people ask,

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you know, how did you get where you are? When in my world? Like,

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how did you how did you create this particular environment that

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you live in now? And my answer to that is always I just

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followed my intuition, I just followed the feel of what felt

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right and what felt good. And I got myself into some successful

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situations. And if you know my backstory, and I've just done

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some huge, deep personal Gestalt work around my backstory to look

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at my life, you wouldn't think that I would have gotten to

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where I am, my intuition has played a big part in my story,

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and trusting it and learning how to be at peace with it has

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definitely helped me build my business has helped me build a

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nice personal life as well, it has created a lot of success for

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me. And I think as entrepreneurs and as human beings, both there

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are a lot of times we do not trust our intuition, or we fight

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against our intuition. And what I want to do today in this

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episode is I want to help you as the listener, and Cara, as my

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business partner, to get more at ease with the intuition and be

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able to tap into it when you need it to be able to make good

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or tough decisions depending on the situation. So that's what

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I'm talking about today. Now, for some of you intuition may be

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a hard word for you to wrap your head around to say, Do I really

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have intuition? Does intuition exist? What exactly is

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intuition? And I can tell you what Kara said first is like

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following your gut. That's what intuition is, at the most base

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level. So that's like knowing in your body, what is up for you?

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Or what feels right, or what kind of sets you off a little

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bit into going is this the right thing? So Kara, want to ask you,

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have you ever felt that in your business, like you're presented

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with a choice in your business and you know, in your heart or

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your gut somewhere in your body that you should or shouldn't do

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something? Have there been any circumstances like that for you,

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I definitely have gotten better over time at

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following my gut feeling when it comes to my business. When it

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comes to business decisions when it comes to deciding which

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clients to work with or not work with. I have definitely found

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myself in situations where I am mad at myself, because I didn't

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follow that gut feeling. And I say to myself, dang it, I knew

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that was going to happen, you know, why didn't I just listen

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to what I was feeling in thinking? I've definitely been

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in situations like that. I'm excited about this topic, even

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though I act like I'm not but the truth is, is I think all of

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us if we could get a little better at learning to trust our

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intuition, learning to trust that feeling in our gut that it

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would probably save us a lot of heartache in the end with that.

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I feel like I have to give a little caveat around there are

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times when like right you know, recently I've had a lot of

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emotions and a lot of stressful things and kind of scary things

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that have happened in my life and it's got me in a place where

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my gut is perhaps a little overly sensitive. So I find

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myself being wary of following it because I'm worried that my

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intuition indicator is a little hyperstimulated. So I don't know

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if you can speak to that at all, as you're going through this.

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But you know, just keeping in mind that there are definitely

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times when I wish I would have done a better job of following

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what I was feeling and listening to that because you know, when

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you don't things happen, and you're second guessing yourself,

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and you get angry and, and you make sometimes really costly

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business mistakes,

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yeah, or you miss really good opportunities as

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well, like you don't go for something because your intuition

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is telling you to go for it. But you somehow have a limiting

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belief that stops you from really pushing out there for it.

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So I think the first thing I want to address is that our

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entire world is a system, right? We all live within certain

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systems, and your body is a system and it is related to the

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system, that is your business, that is your life, that is your

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home, that is your family, like everything is interconnected

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with everything else. And intuition, to me is an energetic

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connection with everything that is around you, and how all of

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that fits in. So when you're saying that your intuition or

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your gut is like hyperstimulated, because of the

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things going on in your environment, that makes total

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sense. And my way that I would address that is that if I have a

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business, let's bring, we're gonna keep this honed into

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business, okay, so if I have a business opportunity, and I'm

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hyper stimulated by all of the things going on within the

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system of my life, what I want to do is I want to sit down if

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my alarm bells are going off, but my brain is going, Hey, I

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think this has more to do with the stuff that's been going on

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in our life than it does with this particular situation, then

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I would want to really just sit down, get quiet, meditate on

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that and let it turn around a little bit and ask myself the

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serious questions of okay, if I can breathe into and just not

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worry, and say, I'm going to I'm going to remove that worry that

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I know is part of what's going on in my life from this

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particular decision. And then ask again in my body where I

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feel that so I think as business people, we tend to think

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business is a very cerebral activity, right? It's in our

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head, we have to think our way through business, but a lot of

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us in the world. We're feelers, right? We feel our way through

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life, that business, we don't feel like it's comfortable to

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feel our way into it. Because it's a thinking thing, right?

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Businesses logical

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or appropriate or professional,

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like, like your business should be based on logic, not your gut

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feeling. That's where our brains go. Typically, I think, at least

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for me, you know, like, I have to have that battle and say,

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Yeah, but everything here is telling me this, but my gut is

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telling me this, you have to balance that

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you do and your body has a lot of things it

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would like for your brain to know. But your brain, especially

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when it comes to talking about business has a tendency to tamp

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those things down. Because your body's saying, Well, you know, I

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just have a queasy feeling about this business idea. You know,

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and I don't know where that queasy feeling is coming from

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your brain is like that queasy feeling is just silly. And you

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just need to ignore it. And logically, this is the best

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decision to make. And then you're like, oh, okay, what do I

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do with that, and then you just ignore it. What my goal for this

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episode is, is to give you a few ways that you can start

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listening to what your intuition what your body, what your mind

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what what all of the things around you are helping you to be

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able to access when you need to make a decision or when an

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opportunity comes up, I want to give you some tools that will

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help you access those things easier, and hopefully make this

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whole process a little simpler for you and a little bit more

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trustworthy in being able to make good entrepreneurial

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decisions. So the big three for this episode is, first of all,

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to practice being at ease with your intuition. And the second

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is don't let your inner critic muzzle your intuition that

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happens a lot. And then the third is to create a system

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where you check in with your intuition before you make a

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decision. So those are all about building trust within yourself

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so that you are able to listen to your gut. So the first one is

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practice getting at ease with your intuition. And for this,

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what we're gonna do is we're gonna start to build some trust

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between our brain and our body. Right? Because again, we've been

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taught that entrepreneurialism should be a very logical

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activity. There should be very, very clear guidelines as to how

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we proceed in our business. But I can tell you if you've been an

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entrepreneur for more than a hot minute, you know sometimes logic

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doesn't always work. Would you agree with that Kara? Like a

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logical decision wasn't always the best.

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Yeah, you up even if you feel like it's

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supposed to be the right one, it's it's just it doesn't always

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work out the way you think it's going to. There's just too many

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other forces that work

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there. Yes, absolutely. So the first thing

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we want to do is we want to start building that trust and

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ease with our intuition. And what this can look like is super

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simple. It's like sitting down with your appointment book for

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the day. And I if you have an appointment book for the day,

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and just writing down who is going to be those appointments,

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and then just checking in with your body or environment and

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your energy and just opening yourself up and saying, Will

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this appointment be easy or problematic? So don't get into a

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preconceived notion like if you have a problem client, and you

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see them on your book for that day, don't automatically assume

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that call is going to be a problem. But look at your

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appointment book and ask yourself, Is this going to be

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easy? Or is there something that I should know about this or feel

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into it about and check in with your body? Do you feel a

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energetic hit somewhere in your physical being like in your

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heart, or in your gut, or in your creativity in the seat of

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your body or somewhere in your mind, so just allow yourself to

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get in touch with that particular thought or feeling

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around how that appointment is going to go today. And then what

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I recommend is that in a very private notebook, not somewhere

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public, that you just write down a little note about how you felt

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about that particular meeting. And then at the end of the day,

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go back and look and see how accurate your intuition really

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was. So what you want to do here is you want to let go the places

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that you were off, okay, so I know Kara tends to get a little

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skeptical around this woowoo stuff that I bring out in the

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world. And I can see her at the end of the day going well, I was

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totally wrong about every one of those appointments. So intuition

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must not make a jack difference in my day and going I'm not

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going to do this again. It's silly or crazy. But the truth

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is, is you want to reward yourself for the ONS and forget

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the

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offs or you could punish yourself for the

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please don't do that.

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No, what

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are your intuition? If you punish

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yourself? No, I'm just throwing that out there as like a tip.

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Oh, no hurt like a rubber band on the wrist or no TV for you?

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No, no,

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no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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the test Oh,

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you've got to be so bad idea. Bad idea. No, no

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punishments are not, we're not training our intuition, we're

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getting at ease with it.

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I'm exercising mine, it's going for

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a workout just going

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for a workout. The goal here is to foster that

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relationship. And if you beat on something, it helps, it doesn't

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foster a very good relationship. But to foster that relationship

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with your body and your mind and your soul if you believe in such

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things, that it's right, and that you're paying attention and

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that you're listening. So I teach something very similar and

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creativity because to me, creativity and intuition are

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very, very closely aligned. So when I'm helping people get

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through creative blocks, I offer something very similar to this.

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But it has to do more with specifically whatever it is

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they're creating. But when you're working with intuition

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and trying to get more in touch with yourself and intuition,

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this is a very safe way to do it. Your appointments are very

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safe, because you know what the hell's the worst thing that's

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going to happen? Right, you're wrong. You're you're normally

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really nice client is having a really bad day, and you let

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yourself think that that was going to be a good call. And it

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turned out to be not so good, or you got to a photo shoot. And

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you saw it as intuitively as being really, really

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problematic. And it happens to be super smooth, right? So

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whatever you do in a day, kind of look at what it is in the

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morning and just sort of let yourself be with it for a

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second. You don't have to spend hours on this. Typically in the

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morning when I sit and do this exercise with my calendar. It

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takes me about two minutes. I mean, I write down the

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appointments and my Moana planner, which I highly

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recommend. So you can google monta planner to find out what

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that is and I write down you know, who I'm going to be

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meeting with and my to do's and I just check in with myself

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really quickly as to whether that is there anything I need to

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know or help head off with that? And I am right creepily often

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with my intuition about how things are gonna go it's like

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you're a witch or something. It is it is it's like there's a

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magic psychic It's a magic. It's it goes back to the concepts

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that your body it knows it has a wisdom that we oftentimes tramp

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because we don't we don't believe it. Like it's it seems

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really out there. And again, I know this is super woowoo but

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yeah, so are you willing curate it? Sure. Try that for a few

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days and see what comes up for you to look at your appointments

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and just check in with your intuition. Sure she's nodding

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Okay, the second thing, and this is the hardest piece for

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everyone is you need to not allow your inner critic to

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muzzle your intuition. Can

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I just say that I love number two, the way

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that it's written because the visual don't let your inner

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critic muzzle your intuition, the visual that it gives me is

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so clear, and captivating. I love I love I love the just,

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and I don't there's nothing wrong with your

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inner critic. A lot of people feel like their inner critic,

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they should they should muzzle their inner critic. And then

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somehow intuition will step forward, I find that doesn't

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work that well as easily as saying your inner critic serves

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a lot of really good functions, right? So for me, my inner

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critic keeps me from doing some really stupid stuff. That would

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be embarrassing or not exactly productive. And the inner critic

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is there to kind of whisper and tap me on the shoulder and say,

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Hey, do you really want to do that or say that because that

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might cause a problem out in the world, my inner critic used to

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be much more mean and forceful, it would be the type of part of

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self that would put those rubber bands around my wrist and snap

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it if it made a bad decision. If I made a bad decision, like I

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told you so or don't do that again. So I've definitely

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learned to be more at peace with my inner critic and understand

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its role in my parts of self and and how I show up in the world.

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So that's a really important thing to recognize is that your

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inner critic does have a purpose and trying to muzzle that inner

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critic does not work. But what does happen is your inner critic

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is loud. And oftentimes for most of us, it's what we've heard all

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of our life, our school system sets us up for that our

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parenting system in this country sets us up for that the culture

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sets us up for that. And our inner critic is really, really

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sharp, because that's our protection system, right? It's

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the way that we don't put ourselves in harm's way, you

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know, emotionally, and sometimes even physically and mentally. So

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that inner critic is really, really important. But in the

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process of that, that still little small voice inside of you

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gets really quiet, because the inner critic is loud, or the

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inner critic says, hey, you've led us astray, you've caused us

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embarrassment or something like that. So I'm going to put a

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muzzle on you and stick you in the corner. And I do think that

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metaphor is appropriate. Well,

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we've spent our entire lives honing our

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inner critic, it's been something that our whole lives

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has been shoved on us pushed on us, or that we have learned to

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make stronger and stronger and stronger, just as a way to

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protect ourselves, I think, from the world. So we've spent all

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this time holding up and cultivating our inner critic,

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whereas our intuition has gone to the wayside so much.

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It has it has and that's the goal of this episode.

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For me, for the world that's listening out there is to tell

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you, your intuition does have important things to say. And

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just like your inner critic, it's not always going to be

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right. But it still deserves that opportunity to be heard.

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And the way that I approached this is probably a little

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woowoo. For a lot of people. I like to have a discussion with

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both my inner critic and my intuition. And I just asked my

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inner critic, can you be a little more gentle in how you

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present yourself? And I asked my intuition. Hey, I'm really good

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with you stepping forward and being louder, I will listen, I

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know that seems a little strange and almost feels like I have

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like all of these things living in my head, but which I kind of

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do, but it works. You can do it privately. You don't need to

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like publicly sit down in front of your family and have this

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discussion with your inner critic in your intuition. But

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you know, find a private place and just open yourself up to

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talking to those two parts of yourself and you may have

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different names for them. I know for me, my inner critic in my

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parts of self work that I've done is called the approval

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officer and that's that particular parts function.

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That's what my inner critics name is and my intuition is

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divine essence. So if your belief system or how you to

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approach these things, feel free to name these, these two kind of

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opposing parts of self as you feel appropriate, and then also

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know that they can work together. So your intuition

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sometimes is really on the side of your inner critic saying, I

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see a major problem with this. And your inner critic is like,

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yeah, so do I. And maybe you better slow that down, and then

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your logical brain steps in and goes, but on a piece of paper,

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this looks like a really good decision and everything against

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everything in USA. No, it's not. So just have that discussion.

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And then the final of the big three for this

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is to create a system where you check in with your intuition

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before you make a decision. And sometimes to get your intuition

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to step up and be a part of your life and your business. And

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helping you make decisions is simply just checking in and

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asking because a lot of times, we just bowled over our

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intuition, because that's something we don't feel is

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appropriate to even consider when making especially a

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business decision. So romantically maybe we've got

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this thing where I have this connection to this person, and

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I'm attracted to them. And we can really check in our body for

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that type of a relationship. But then when we go to work with a

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business partner, or we go to make a business decision, we'll

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be much more logical about it, we'll forget about that hit of

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this is a good thing, or this is a bad thing. And we won't even

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check in because we don't value that as much with business

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relationships, as we do with that logical, we've got to think

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about it point a point B, point C, point D, and we don't do it.

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So we have to learn how to check in and just ask the question,

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what do I feel about this? Where in my body? Am I connecting with

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it? How do I think this is going to come out in the future? Do

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you have anything to add to that? Kara?

Cara Taylor Swift:

I mean, not really just that I think that in

Cara Taylor Swift:

business, we just don't spend enough time using it. I'm just

Cara Taylor Swift:

sitting here thinking about times when you know, if I would

Cara Taylor Swift:

have listened to my intuition, things would have been maybe

Cara Taylor Swift:

things would have been different, I would have done

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things differently. Or I'd be in a different place and or maybe

Cara Taylor Swift:

on you know, I don't know. And there are times when I know I do

Cara Taylor Swift:

listen to my intuition. So I think it's it's more about

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finding a balance for me, and probably for others out there

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where you start to trust your intuition more than you

Cara Taylor Swift:

necessarily you feel confident trusting your inner critic,

Cara Taylor Swift:

because you've been doing it your whole life. But do we trust

Cara Taylor Swift:

our intuition? I don't know. You know, we have to get ourselves

Cara Taylor Swift:

there. So it's an interesting, this is an interesting topic.

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It is. And it's not something I don't say to

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people, you know, if your gut tells you, it's the right thing

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to do, or the wrong thing to do to completely trust that as in

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100 person, I'm always going to make decisions from my gut, I

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don't do that. I don't feel bad at all. If my intuition tells me

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that something that looks like a good opportunity is not a good

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opportunity. I do the research, I will pull on what small amount

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of research points I have in my temperament type. Kara is the

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researcher I'm gonna go with my gut kind of person and fly by

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the seat of my pants sort of metaphors and cliches to go with

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how I approach life in the world. But if something does

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tell me like I see an opportunity in my business, and

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my gut is like really queasy about it, I first have to check

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in so here's another thing that happens to you, when you start

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checking in with your intuition. A lot of times what feels like

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fear is actually excitement. So fear and excitement in your body

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sometimes feel very, very similar to one another. And

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you've got to kind of learn how to sort out what's the

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difference between I'm afraid of it and I'm excited for it and

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there's there'll be a distinct difference as you get more in

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touch with it. But when I see an opportunity come up and I feel

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that particularly in my gut that's that's queasy, or

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butterflies or something like that. I start by asking myself

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is this fear or excitement and Am I excited for it? Or am I

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afraid of it? And if I'm excited for it, why, if I'm afraid of

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it, why, and then I look for cold, hard facts logically,

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that's when I let my logical self step forward and say, Okay,

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let's just use this as a scientific experiment, let's see

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if we can prove there's something fearful with this, or

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let's see if we can prove that there's something super exciting

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about it, that maybe we want to explore or is going to cause too

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much excitement. So I do temper that with saying, I'm going to

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get in touch with my intuition, I'm going to listen. And then

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I'm going to fact check that so I can see what's going on. And

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then I take all of those things together, and I make the

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decision from a really good place, the thing that I think a

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lot of people do is they don't take that moment to check in

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with their intuition and include that in the balance sheet of how

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they're going to make that final decision. Does that make sense?

Kimberly Beer:

Well, yeah.

Cara Taylor Swift:

And it's just funny, because like you said

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earlier, we use it in other places in our lives, you know,

Cara Taylor Swift:

we use it when we're talking about relationships a lot of

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times, you know, which is, it's funny to me, because we'll use

Cara Taylor Swift:

it in certain parts of our life, and then we just don't trust it

Cara Taylor Swift:

at all in other parts of our life. So yeah, that's, that's

Cara Taylor Swift:

really interesting. And it doesn't it does make sense to

Cara Taylor Swift:

me.

Kimberly Beer:

Absolutely. Well, let's just review over those big

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three. And I know this has been a nice short episode, but my

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intuition tells me that the subject has gotten out to where

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it needs to get. So first of all, practice being at ease with

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your intuition. Start with simple small things that aren't

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like going to cause a big deal. If your intuition is off, make

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sure you let go in a nice way of the things where your intuition

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where you felt off and definitely reward yourself for

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the ones that you found that were on, don't let your inner

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critic muzzle your intuition. Make peace with both of these

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parts, and then create a system where you check in with yourself

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before you make the decision. And then Lau your intuition to

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have a say in the final final decision where it's weighed.

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With all of those logical things that you're going to come up

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with when you're weighing to make a good business decision.

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Allow it to have a say in that may not be the final say. But

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listening and paying attention is important.

Cara Taylor Swift:

You all we want to hear from you online. We

Cara Taylor Swift:

want to know what your thoughts are. Do you use your intuition

Cara Taylor Swift:

when you're making decisions about your animal, equine or pet

Cara Taylor Swift:

based business? Or do you tend to let your inner critic keep

Cara Taylor Swift:

that tap down? We want to hear your thoughts on this subject.

Cara Taylor Swift:

So come find us online. We are at The Business Animal on

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Cara Taylor Swift:

Just take a couple minutes to do that. It would just be

Cara Taylor Swift:

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Cara Taylor Swift:

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take a couple of minutes and do that. Thank you guys for

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listening. It means the world to Kim and I to get to do this and

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to share with you guys and we hope you're getting something

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out of it.

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