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I’m convinced that our instincts can provide the combination we need to align our unique variables with our callings and release the treasure within us.
When you’re living by instinct, then you will naturally enhance everything and everyone around you. In other words, success will come naturally! When both your intellect and instincts are aligned, then producing the fruits of your labors brings satisfaction beyond measure.
When you don’t become fixated on winning the prize or appearing successful, and instead pursue your passions, then you will discover the fulfillment that comes from living by instinct.
These cells vibrate to the tempo of their purpose even before they’re operating and performing their function.
One of the great tragedies of life is not discovering the people, culture, and careers that are part of your tribe and moving to the same beat.
Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact.
The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.
most scholars define an instinct as a genetically hardwired tendency, a behavior that’s built in and automatic, not learned or conditioned.
The survival instinct is generally regarded as the strongest in most every species. Instincts to nurture, to gather, to procreate, to secure food and water, to protect and to defend—these sustain life in practical, very tangible ways.
Our instincts speak to us daily, prompting us to pay attention, to listen more carefully, to sidestep danger, and to seize an opportunity.
Once we embrace this instinct of identity, we understand why we are so shaped and designed.
Instincts are the product of what we have and what we want to have.
They are the inner compass guiding us from where we are to where we want to go.
What we see often creates quite an impact. But it’s how we process it internally that influences our instincts.
I’ve learned that most highly successful people didn’t develop in an environment of success; they evolved into it.
In other words, our instincts are not motivated by immediate gratification, personal gain at the expense of exploitation, or the pursuit of satisfaction untethered from conscience.
This inward urging or prompting is far too often underutilized, and consequently so many people feel stuck at a certain stage even as they long to be more productive. Beyond pursuing the direction of their instincts, as you may have done at times, the question remains: have you maximized your findings, or only stored the data and acquiesced to the mundane routine of fitting in with what has already been done?
Anything that we do for years that doesn’t match the inner imprint of our gifting will eventually become monotonous and routine, ritualistic and frustrating.
Like a key that will fit a lock and yet is inadequately structured to let us open the door, we find ourselves jammed into a role that fulfills the needs of those around us but may not unlock the door to the larger life, work, and cravings of our inner soul.
Instinct and imagination become the parents of our creative visions.
Our instincts teach us how to take less and do more.
In fact, intellect without instinct can only explain and explicate but not execute. Only instinct can successfully find what intellect explains.
Most people adapt to their environment more quickly than they should. They adjust themselves to the situation rather than adjusting their situation to the dreams they have inside.
we often behave based on our perceptions more than the reality of our actual circumstances.
Is your perception of reality skewed by what you expect or by what you really desire?
Only those incarcerated by their unwillingness to listen to their instincts and to take the risks required for success will seek to deter you.
I learned that if necessity is indeed the mother of invention, then desperation is the father!
Successful leaders know that instincts transform adversity into opportunity.
No matter how resourceful, creative, or industrious we may be, without others on our team, we will only idle on our ideas instead of gaining traction toward interaction! If instinct is the fuel that powers your Jeep, then your team members are the tires! I don’t care how polished the Jeep is or how much horsepower it has under the hood. It may be built for rugged hills and designed to take you on the safari of a lifetime, but if the tires aren’t filled up with air and ready to roll, the carburetor, spark plugs, or steering wheel cannot help you move in the direction you need to go.
Team Value
You can’t take everyone with you just because they were with you where you were before.
Team
Instincts allow your internal vision to become an external reality.
Now, many can imitate what you do, but none can duplicate what you do if you produce outwardly what you possess inwardly.
Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people’s refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.
Your instincts know the blueprint for success that’s within you and how to bring it to life all around you. Don’t give up or be deterred from your destiny just because it doesn’t seem to fit a formula.
When ideas hang out with influence, income will always emerge.
I have always believed that relationships are our greatest resource. But those relationships must cross-pollinate beyond the familiar.
Relationship
If you only move based on data, you will only regurgitate old ideas.
When circumstances seem to hold you hostage, your instincts pay the ransom.
At its core an instinct is an inborn pattern of activity or tendency to act that’s common to a given species.
