1. More Podcasts!  Sign up for my Podcast Feed!  Starting June, I'll be adding approximately two 5-10 minute podcasts per month to my website.  These podcasts will be audio versions of my most popular blog posts. So, if you've got an mp3 player but you haven't had the time to visit this site regularly, this is a fantastic way to automatically get quick and regular updates on my most empowering materials - all for FREE.

2. Book Reviews.  Each month I read or listen to at least 3-4 personal growth and development books and write reviews on the best of the most current offered on the market.  If you like to read, and are committed to physical, spiritual and financial growth, please visit the book review link.  This month's feature is Marcus Buckingham's - Go Put your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieving Outstanding Performance. Read a full review here!.  

3. As you know, I am continually striving to provide enhanced content for this website.  Approximately 85% of my readership comes from new google search queries, a significant portion of them regarding 'Wellness Coaching'.  Please send me an email and let me know what would be of most value to you the reader.  If you are new to this newsletter and are unfamiliar with its content, read through my articles i-grow.net: The Conscious Growth of Prosperity and Balance, The Six Components of Whole Person Wellness, and 10 Steps to Success.  Feel free to send me an email any time with questions as well.   

NEW ARTICLES AND PODCASTS

Here's the latest podcast and articles released to The Personal Growth Network. Please post questions you have on the blog!

Podcasts

• Podcast #7 - Stop Lying to Yourself - Coaching to the Truth and to Wellness - Click on (# 007 in the Media Player)

• Develop Your Intuition
• Stop Lying to Yourself – Coaching to the Truth and to Wellness
• Seven Steps for Using Summer to Form Long Term Habits
• Book Review – The Laws of Lifetime Growth
• Life Coaching Jobs Wanted – Who’s Hiring?
• Book Review – Go Put your Strengths to Work
• Cancer – The Wisdom Disease
• The Natural Chiropractic Cure for Hemorrhoids (and Thrombosis Hemorrhoids)
• Use Visualization to Get Healthy, Get a Promotion, Balance Life and Make Money!

Intuition.  Its an inherent capacity yet a long lost skill.  We're taught by our schools, by our parents, by our society to be exceedingly intellectual, and in the process we've collectively lost touch with our gut emotions and feelings. As we've become more and more confident in our capacity to reason, intuition has become less and less of a necessity.  We have turned over decision making to our thought and have shut down the need to listen to what our core self tells us. 

Is this bad?  I invite you to look at this as neither good nor bad, its simply what is.  In the past 200 years, society has changed and it has favored those with high intellectual capacity.  It rewards those who can think proactively, those who can analyze, evaluate, and solve the most complex of problems.  We look for theorems, proofs, and logic to be the foundation for the answers we believe and trust.  And in the process, intuition has taken a back seat.

So what differentiates the great leaders and most successful individuals of our time?  Is it their capacity to analyze? Truth be told, there are many brilliant analysts who have little success.  The most successful people have learned to become great thinkers in their field of expertise AND have a strongly developed sense of intuition.  If Warren Buffett relied solely on his analyzing capacity, he'd be nowhere near as successful as he is today.  

Intuition is nothing magical.  Its not a force reserved for mystics and spiritual masters.  Intuition is inherent to us all. We can all tap into it with relative ease.  The real challenge in today's world is to be focused such that you call upon it regularly.  You may recognize intuition as that inner sense of knowing that something is simply right even though the numbers don't add up.  Its difficult to listen to and act upon intuition in this situation. Regardless, intuition is there and its sending you signals.  Its that same voice that says, don't eat that iced cream, but you do anyways. No, intuition hasn't dissappeared as we've evolved so rapidly to become great thinkers, we've simply chosen not to listen and in the process we've forgotten how to listen.  Ask yourself the follwing:

• When was the last time I made a decision based on intuition rather than on analysis?
• In what areas  might I improve by listening closer to my intuition?
• What has my intuition been telling me that I've neglected to listen to?
• How might I change such that I consciously call upon my intuition more often?
  

Be Well

Written by
Doug Nau; MBA, Certified Life Coach
www.coachforwellness.com, www.i-grow.net
Professional Life/Wellness Coach, Speaker & Consultant