Our intuition communicates with us all day long. Many of us receive this communication quite clearly – even many of us who don’t consider ourselves particularly intuitive. Ideas spring into our minds out of nowhere. We are inspired with bursts of creativity. We feel the nudge to pick up the phone, the sense that words are placed into our mouths that must be said. All this is intuition – communication from our Spirit.

But then we commit one fatal mistake. Before we act on those ideas, bring forth the inspiration, make that phone call or speak out loud, we think about it. We try to justify the impulse, to explain it to ourselves. We struggle to come up with a good reason for taking inspired action as guided, or we try our best to talk ourselves out of that action. We try to figure out where it will all go. We attach outcomes. We think so much that perhaps we don’t end up doing anything at all. Or maybe we take action that is a rationalized, altered version of the original intuitive impulse. All too often, we think ourselves out of acting on guidance.

Here’s a fun way to create the habit of simply taking action when Divine inspiration strikes.

Set an intention – something that you can feasibly create or accomplish within the next three or four days. Make it something real, something tangible. Then ask your Higher Self and your Guides: “What actions can I take in the next three days that will contribute to manifesting my desired outcome of (state your intention)?”

Now comes the real fun. Whatever impulse you receive – do it. Even if it makes no sense right now, even if it has no obvious connection to your intention – just do it. For three days, act first. You can think later.

A few ground rules:

Taking action does not mean doing research, writing it down on a to-do list, or putting it in your calendar. Taking action does not mean reading about something, or even journaling. Journaling is thinking on paper. It has its place, but this isn’t it. For the sake of this exercise, your action must be expressed into the world. That means that other people can perceive your actions.

The next two ground rules should be self-evident, but I just want to be sure no-one gets carried away! Don’t spend any money you don’t have. And remember that Spirit would never guide us to do anything that could conceivably be hurtful to another person … just in case you feel moved to insult your boss!

Give yourself three days without thinking yourself out of Divine guidance. By the end of three days, you may have begun creating remarkable results in your life. Try it, and share your experience in the comments!

Blessings,
Andrea

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