One of the most difficult aspects of using your intuition is that you never know where it’s going.  You might feel that something will happen "soon", but that could mean anything from a few minutes to many months.  You might think that something feels "right", but others totally disagree.

So how are you supposed to work with that?  Damn good question… 

A while back, I was fired from a job that I loved because my intuition was telling me that one of my tasks needed to go "on hold" for a while.  My employer did not like this.  He felt I was unreliable and had become a "business risk".  I was fired on the spot. 

Quite frankly, I couldn’t agree more with my ex-employer.  If I had employees who only showed up when they felt like it, I’d be livid.  Or if the phone company decided they don’t feel like connecting my calls today, it’d be time to get the shotgun out of the shed…(I’m kidding, I don’t own a shed nor a shotgun!).

At first view, this is not good.  Intuition sucks and I am an unreliable person.  As tempting as it is to just go ahead and feel tremendously guilty about all this, I asked my intuition to show me a better perspective (yes, it’ll do that for ya). 

Then I remembered that my ex-employer had publicly asked (in a team meeting) that if you ever felt it was against your guts to work on a project, you report this to your manager so you could be transfered to another team.  The logic being that if you’re not working with  the project, you’re working against it (a process called subversion).  Which I think is splendid logic. 

So my intuition was telling me to follow the policy that my employer was (very ambivalently) advocating.  And since I was working as a contractor, I was also saving my client’s money by not billing for unproductive time.  Well, you’ll have to forgive me if I don’t feel guilty about THAT…

Although we do not always see it at the time, intuition never leads us astray.  I needed to get fired from this job so I could become a Strategic Business Intuitive.  This was certainly good for me.  But most of all, my intuition showed me the big picture about being "unreliable" and "risky".  I’m not.  On the contrary, I am just an honest employee with other people’s best interest (and budget) at heart. 

Only in our immediate, distorted perception can we ever feel led the wrong way when we follow intuitive insight.   Ultimately, it’s not only the right thing to do but the only thing that actually feels good.

NOTE TO SELF:  If you want your employees to show up every day, don’t make it a policy to come into the office only when they feel like it.   But make it a policy to find out how to make people feel happy to be in the office everyday.

In Love

Elise Lebeau,M.Sc.
Professional Intuitive
EliseLebeau.com
StrategicBusinessIntuitive.com

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