8 Steps to Open to Your Blind Spots and Navigate from Your Intuition

Take down your blind spots: the unconscious patterns of behavior that are fueled by emotions and beliefs — that misguide us from acting upon our truest intuitive senses

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A friend of mine, the founder and president of a well-known leadership consultancy startup in San Francisco with a promising ‘runway’ for success, recently faced a pivotal life decision. Just as his company was getting off the ground, landing big contracts, and wading waist deep into highly creative and well-funded projects, he was offered another job as CEO of a competing company. The offer forced him to choose between the company he had poured his heart and soul into and heading up another, more established organization with a team twice the size.

From the outside it looked like a clear choice: stay with his own creation and see it through to the next stage. This would enable him to launch his own voice and work into the world and write the book he’d been longing to create, among other things. He had a great staff working for him and the vision was his — they needed him. His company was the new sexy consultancy on the block and its story was just starting to be written. Still, the offer pulled at him, and he found himself considering it.

One day while I was walking at the lake in my neighborhood, he called me and relayed