Intuitive decision making is about learning to feel what’s meant for you and what’s not. It’s the skill of making good decisions from a place of clarity rather than reaction. This isn’t something that happens overnight. It requires sitting with yourself, knowing your own energy, and understanding the difference between thinking about your emotions and actually feeling them in your body.
True abundance is knowing what you need to know when you need to know it. When you’re present, your task list orders itself. You know exactly who to hire, what to delegate, and where your energy is best spent. But getting to that level of clarity requires doing the work of knowing yourself outside of all the noise.
What It Feels Like to Be Aligned
When something is truly meant for you, it lights you up. There’s no doubt in your mind. You direct all of your energy towards it and don’t let anything stand in the way. The opportunity is so clearly meant for you that obstacles don’t even register as obstacles.
I experienced this when I started at Google. Someone showed me a newspaper article about an entrepreneurial outreach program. It immediately lit me up because I was already doing small business consulting and knew the key players. I wrote a three-page proposal at 2am and sent it to ten variations of the email address.
One got through. Over 90 days I went from a low-level position to team lead to regional lead to national lead to global lead. That’s what happens when intuitive decision making confirms you’re in the right place.
This is where intuition becomes a superpower.
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When the Energy Changes
Alignment isn’t permanent. What used to feel lifegiving can eventually start draining your energy. Reality gives you subtle nudges when you’re out of alignment. Physical symptoms. Gaining weight. Relationships feeling stale. Work feeling like a slog.
These are all indicators that something that used to be a hell yes has become a no. Intuitive decision making means listening when something has shifted. The question is whether you’re paying attention.
The Morning Practice
When I wake up, I do deep breathing for five to ten minutes, tuning into my body and seeing what’s there. I map my dreams because they’re the subconscious giving us a mirror. It’s less about intellectually interpreting the dream and more about how it made you feel.
If after sitting with myself I still feel discomfort, I go into journaling. I label the discomfort. Is it fear? Anger? Concern? I write that at the top of a legal pad. Then I list all the places anyone could experience that feeling until I can’t think of another one. Usually the release manifests as laughter.
Hell Yes or Hell No
Reality lights you up to show you where the breadcrumb path is. If something isn’t a hell yes for you, it should be a hell no. Hell yeses are where the next breadcrumb is.
If you can’t find your hell yes right now, the only work is to sit with yourself. Allow the trauma preventing clarity to work itself out of your system. Transmute it back into creative potential. Once you have that creative potential available again, the next breadcrumb will light up like a laser beam.
That’s what intuitive decision making actually looks like. Not blind faith in every feeling, but refined awareness of what’s truly yours to follow.