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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.
So how about you—are you in sync with your inner wisdom about your strengths, abilities, talents, and unique contribution to the world?
Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact.
Maybe we need to stop choosing people purely by résumés and rationales that have led us headfirst into disappointment. We need instead to find people who are in sync with our beat and form a more perfect union with those who hear
the same rhythm! It is time for us to find the thing we were created to do, the people we were meant to affect, and the power that comes from alignment with purpose.
Instinct and imagination become the parents of our creative visions.
you must allow your instincts to become your bridge.
John Maxwell says that those who know how to do a thing will always have a job. But those who understand why they did it will always be their bosses!
Let's dig further into this statement Kim...
In fact, intellect without instinct can only explain and explicate but not execute. Only instinct can successfully find what intellect explains.
So good! What's my intellect tell me and my instinct have me do?
Are you aware of what truly fascinates you? What appeals to your heart
and ignites something deep inside you?
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Whether it was managing the paint department at Sears, selling men’s clothing, or working the assembly line at Union Carbide, I appreciated the value of working hard in order to provide for my family as well as to underwrite my ministry. “Tent-making,” as we call it in the church, came naturally to me.
This is exactly what I do! I work hard to make ends meet while still pursuing my main goals, dreams, etc.
instinct requires self-awareness and risk taking.
So often we look to others for inspiration, approval, or affirmation of what we should do and how we should do it. But you will never achieve the fulfillment of your vision this way.
Become a student of your deepest passions and most persistent curiosities.
Focus on these things
Think about what you gravitate toward when given time to relax and recharge. Are you always watching cooking shows on the Food Network, tinkering with recipes to make them your own? Maybe you’re exploring new apps, thinking about the ones you wish existed that you can’t find. Do you find yourself perusing history books and travel brochures about a foreign land or culture that captivates you? Are you drawn to the latest leadership training course that’s coming to town? Paying attention to what nourishes and stimulates your heart, soul, and imagination leads to listening to your instincts. In
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Take inventory Kim...on what you naturally gravitate towards
This is what I'm doing now. Crying in private and bunkering down, but I'm coming out swinging and in full fledged survivor mode
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.
What is natural may not feel normal, because your experiences don’t match your inclinations.
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly
want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
When we’re committed to fulfilling our destiny, our instinct drives us away from complacency and toward contentment.
To put it another way, we must look ahead and anticipate what we can handle. Scripture tells us that we must count the cost before we build our house, and the same is true with leaving the cage.
When others offer advice, criticism, or instruction, you should listen, consider it, and keep it in mind. But ultimately, you can only follow your own instincts and not someone else’s. Steve Jobs was right. You must never live anyone else’s life but your own. You must fly on your own two wings!
You have to listen to yourself
Relying on your instincts is not enough. You might survive but you won’t thrive without due diligence and the research needed to sharpen and hone your instincts. I’m convinced instincts operate most accurately when they have as much data as possible.
In short, your gifting and opportunity can bring you into a new arena that your skill sets may be able to manage but not maximize.
1 style of instinctive leadership
#2 style
It’s hard to lead someone that you don’t understand.
Understand those that you lead
How to understand your instinctive leadership style
But the thought of tracking the future by looking at the remains of the past captivated me. If we want an instinctive understanding about where we’re going, then we must become aware of what we’ve left behind.
Most psychologists assert that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. But this doesn’t always mean that you will do the same thing again. However, it does mean that if we want to change and avoid repeating past failures, then we must learn to read our past the same way my guide read what the elephants left behind.
To avoid past failures we must read what we did in our past
In short, your instincts might be short-circuiting in bad relationships and delinquent behaviors, but by tapping those instincts, you can change what’s eating at you into something more productive.
Where do you need to clear a path so that you have room to maneuver toward your ultimate destination? What needs to be burned away in order to refine what you’re focused on finding? How can you unblock your view of who you are, what you could be, and where you could go?
Ask these questions to yourself Kim. To move forward. To move on from the past.
Balancing what you know in your mind with what you know in your heart takes practice.
Not only does a wise person balance instincts with intellect, they must also make sure that the intelligence they’re using comes from reliable sources with balanced perspectives.
When someone advises you, always know what part of the elephant this person is touching. Don’t build plans around a description that is, in fact, a narrow perspective based on touching one side of a much more global and massive reality.
Instinctive flexibility requires what I call “360-degree thinking.” Being flexible includes the understanding that anything you do affects everyone connected to you.
Thinking in a circle. Who ALL and WHAT you impact. What do you need to do to prepare? What areas are left uncovered and vulnerable?
Man was the inventor of prisons both literal and figurative! You’ll never fulfill your destiny until you break out of the constructs and move beyond the socially induced systems that define and limit what is within you!
More times than not, Jesus used people who handled a net and not a line. There’s a benefit in working with a net that a single line can never touch: the potential to increase effectiveness by diverse associations.
To not prepare for the new territory is almost disrespectful of the opportunity.
The truth!!! Prepare Kim for your new territory.
When you follow your instincts, you will find yourself at the intersection of needing to build alliances with people who complete you rather than people who compete with you. Completion occurs when you join forces with others who may not be going your way, but their vision and yours find an intersection and the relationship is built on what connects you rather than alienates or divides you.
Completion in relationships is when...
the intersection of common
Do this Kim!
My friend, take a good look at your life. Take a close inspection of those you have around you. You may be crying out for something or someone that is closer to you than you would’ve ever imagined. My challenge to you is to lower your neck, increase your scope, and never assume that what you saw before is all that there is to see! Reexamine what you have and who is near you. Don’t be afraid to let others see how you have instinctively changed!
God, in his infinite wisdom, develops the giraffe’s neck once it’s outside the womb. Similarly, our necks grow with time and extend our views with experiences and opportunities that forever alter our perspectives.
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Maintain your current level of vision, and don’t droop to the petty politics percolating below.
If you want to live by instinct, feed your heart and stretch to the treetops!
Feed what fuels you
As we conclude, I hope your confidence is greater, your aim sharper, and your awareness of your innate abilities more finely honed.
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