As you might know, in addition to being a diet and wellness coach I am also a life coach. What is a life coach? One who guides other to live the life of their dreams; to have balance while determining and achieving their life goals.

As I departed for my recent Bonaire vacation it was clear that my own life was out of balance. Yes, I was making progress toward my goals, but at what cost? I was at a crossroads. I didn’t want to be coaching others in how to live an intentional balanced life and just talking the talk, but not walking the walk.

I gave myself permission to, upon my return, totally redesign my life, if that’s what it took… but I decided while on vacation not to give one thought about the impending decisions that awaited me. When worry rose its craggy head to the surface I buried myself in another novel or got myself to the ocean and snorkeled my cares away.

Being worry free for those two weeks was the real vacation. Settling back in at home, I was determined some how, some way, to retain being worry free.
I had set aside a couple of days to go through a series of “intentional living” exercises – the same ones I walk my clients through. I also spent time journaling, practicing yoga and focusing on my Inner Knowing.

I was reading some “personal development” blogs for inspiration. Specifically, one written by Erin Pavlina about how to increase your intuition gave me a tip that just set me on fire. She suggested that one go on a 30-day intuition binge; that is, make all your decision from gut-instinct instead of logic.

In her blog, she described the results of her own thirty-day intuition binge by listing a series of specifics, such as having an urge to take a certain route, stop and get money from the ATM and other little things that resulted in quick extra-convenience immediate payoffs. Mine was a little different.

I did have one big hit of intuition and that was to partner with my son and his girlfriend to open a Hawaiian Ice concession stand. Like water over a fall the plan seemed to glide into place. I had the thought on June 20 and by July 1st we were easily (I won’t say effortlessly) open for business. We got a great deal on the trailer, got the exact perfect location to set up and it looks like we’ll have the loan repaid before the 0% financing runs out on it. That was great, but there was something even deeper that went on.

When I decided to go on the intuition binge, I didn’t really associate it with being worry free. I still thought I might have to do some drastic redesign of my life in order to be worry free.

But the intuition binge was the answer. The furrow lines of worry on my forehead completely disappeared. In giving myself permission to be led by my intuition I was actually giving myself permission not to worry. I no longer had to use logic and reason and thinking and scheming to find the exact right next best step to take. Nope, when faced with a decision, I just closed my eyes, asked for Guidance and made the decision.

In actuality I probably didn’t spend much less time thinking logically before making a decision, it just felt different not to have to second guess myself. Not to have to look for the exact right answer. Instead, I weighed the options and made a decision. Then it seems that I was free to trust that down the road I would be able to handle whatever results the decision brought to me, whether it was convenience and prosperity or a “life lesson.”

The intuition binge helped me relearned a lesson that I was taught very early in my quest for personal growth. I was attending 12-step meetings then and the second step, “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God.” was freaking me out. Given how badly I had screwed up my life at that point, I felt so much pressure to make right decisions. I felt that I had to figure out what God’s will was for me about every issue. Whether to shop at Walmart , which meetings to go to, who to ask to be my mentor, God’s will started feeling elusive the more I tried to know it.

Someone pointed out to me that the step started with the words made a decision. They said that I didn’t actually have to figure out what God’s will was, I simply had to have the intention to do God’s will.

That was a whole different ballgame. I changed my tactic. I prayed for God’s will, made my decision and then expected God could probably meet me where I was at. That, in essence, was the same lesson learned from the intuition binge. There is no one right answer for anything. As long as I’m not operating totally on ego and stay centered in having a desire for the most peaceful beneficial solution, no decision that I make could really be so disastrous that I have to spend my precious time or energy worrying after I’ve already made it. God will meet me where I’m at. I will meet me where I’m at.

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