Intuition’s Role in Achieving Goals
October 6th, 2006 by Matt InglotI spend long hours figuring out the next moves in my business along with all the other aspects of my life that somehow have to be mashed around it. Some of it’s on paper and much more is in my head, but rest assured it’s all very real planning. Yet in all that wonderful planning there is a very strong “follow your gut” current. At the end of the day it seems that this current is what really drives things forward and makes it all happen even as well-laid plans fall apart.
I heard Angela Mondou speak yesterday at the Chapter 4 Entrepreneur Week event and she said one thing that stuck out above all else. She was talking about being strapped into the backseat of an F18 fighter on an air combat training mission, wondering what she had gotten herself into as she fought just to stay conscious in the thing. She proceeded to draw a parallel point that went something like “As an entrepreneur you will always have situations when things seem overwhelming and you stop and ask yourself ‘what the heck am I doing here?’”.
That certainly has rung true for me many times (often this is accompanied by overwhelming deadlines or a web server deciding to develop some bizarre quirk), and it’s in this kind of mental wake-up that I look back and wonder how I even got to where I am now. It all moves much faster than the conscious part of my brain can ever hope to adjust to, and that’s where intuition has to be secretly steering it all from the backseat.
What I’m doing with Tilted Pixel feels right and in just a year it’s gone from a name that I was able to snag a .com domain for to something infused with meaning. There’s a certain energy radiating off the name that didn’t exist and I’ve noticed that energy reflect itself in me and in the people that I meet with. Every day this entity becomes more defined and more real. It has hit some amazing goals such as reaching key revenue targets and becoming a federal corporation last August.
I cannot possibly say that the above is the result of a well-laid plan. If anything it’s intuition that determines what the goals should be, and the plan is merely the slave tasked with reaching those goals and making the necessary changes whenever the goals shift.
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