The Voice Within: Learning to trust your inner guidance | DFS 413

Welcome to Destin for Success. I'm your

host Jennifer Takagi, and today I want to talk about the voice

within learning to trust your inner guidance. So last week we

talked to Christina Malavenda, and she was talking about

exploring spiritual and paranormal experiences, and I

have talked about intuition in the past and how literally

listening to my intuition saved my life. So I want to just

continue that conversation. It's a fun one to have. Receiving

guidance is the first step. Real transformation happens when you

trust your intuition enough to act on it. So, getting into that

a little bit deeper, intuition becomes clearer when you create

space to listen. I am a firm believer that if there's never

silence, you can't hear the messages. If you're never in

silence, you can't hear the messages. Do the messages come

from God? Maybe. Do they come from your higher self? Maybe. Do

they come from your master's teachers and loved ones from

your akashic records? Maybe, but they come, and that's the point.

We don't have to get caught up on semantics, but they come, and

that is why meditation can be so important. Because as you

meditate, and as you visualize the life that you want, you can

start to see it and start to feel it more deeply. But it

happens when you're quiet. Now, does everything around you

necessarily have to be quiet? Not really, not really. Some

people are really good at blocking out everything around

them. Personally, I I like it to be quiet. I also don't believe

that you have to meditate for hours on end to get the message.

I think you can set the intention to get an answer, to

get an idea, to get inspiration for it to come to you, and it's

all about the intention. And then hold some space for it to

come in. What's your next best step? What would be the next

best thing I could do? Now I will beat myself up about this a

little bit because there are times I get great ideas to do a

social media post, record a video, something like that, and

I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna do that, and I don't do it, and the

inspiration passes, and I don't. I'm gonna be honest. Sometimes I

just don't do it. But if you can create a little bit of space in

your day, oh wait, I'm your 12-minute success coach, so

maybe 12 minutes would be good. Then your messages become

clearer, and your intuition shows up a little more clearly.

You have to give it space to show up. The more you trust it,

the more confident you're going to become in your decisions. And

I'm asked about this. Oh, you know it goes in waves. Now that

I'm talking about it today, probably a lot more questions

are going to come. One thing that has come up for me has been

using GPS. I used to only use GPS for long trips, and my

cruise control for long trips. And a friend of mine said, "Oh

gosh, especially if I come up on a school zone, I will set my GPS

so I don't go beyond and I don't speed in a school zone because

you never want to speed in a school zone for so many reasons.

Number one, you don't want to hit the kids, and number two,

you don't want a big old ticket. But I was like, you set your

cruise control, and you set your do your G like you did what you

do this all the time. I just thought it was for long trips,

and she goes, Oh yeah, it's so helpful. So now, I set my GPS

just about every time I get in the car because it is so good at

telling me if there's going to be a delay, if there is an

accident ahead, if there's construction ahead, I'm like,

okay. So I'm going to pick up my bestie Christie, and we're going

to go to an Oklahoma City Thunder basketball game. If you

don't follow. NBA Oklahoma City has a a professional basketball

team, and we're going to go to the game. And I said, I said the

GPS on my car, and I was like, all right, let's go.

And I'm driving down the street, and it says, and my GPS is Lola

after Robin Williams' GPS on the movie RV, and it was Lola said,

"Turn left at the next intersection, and I was like, "I

didn't write. I'm not turning. Go a little bit further. Turn

left at the next intersection. Not doing it. Like I'm going up

to the highway. I don't know why you keep telling me what to do.

Like this isn't right, and this little stretch of road-it's like

every block. Not a what did my friend tell me in New York City?

It could be a long city block or a short city block. These were

not long city blocks. These were like short city blocks, and I

was like, "This isn't right. This isn't right! I didn't turn.

I didn't turn. I didn't turn, and I get up to turn to get on

the highway, and Lola has been telling me for half a mile every

little block. Turn left. Turn left. I didn't. I didn't. I

didn't. I see nothing but a sea of red tail lights because

there's a wreck on the highway and nothing is moving, and now

I'm trapped because I'm in the left turn lane with a light, so

I have to turn. As it turns out, I stay on the service road, the

frontage road, and I bypass the accident. But Lola was telling

me all along, "You need to turn. You need to turn. And someone

said, "Well, how is that really helping with your intuition?

Like you had GPS and you were arguing with it. Yeah, I was. I

did not stop to ask myself why is she possibly telling me to

turn when I need to go up and get on the highway. I had this

little voice that said you should trust the GPS, and I

didn't listen. Fortunately, the ramifications were minimal. It

took me a little longer to get to where I was going. Other

times when you don't listen, it can have bigger consequences.

Like let's say don't date that person, or go ahead and break up

with that person, or it's okay and time to move on. And you

stay and you look up and it's been 30 years and you're still

there, right? Or you've had five kids and you're like, "Ooh, I

don't know how to afford getting out of this. Right, like we have

all these little hits that we don't necessarily follow up on.

I had a client say, "I don't really know how to do this,

like, and I said, "Okay, the next time you have a little idea

of do this, not that, do it and just see what happens. Like I

should grab my umbrella. Now there is a superstition if you

grab your umbrella, then it won't rain because you won't

need it. But there's another thing of ooh, it might rain. I

think I'm going to grab my umbrella, and then you have it,

right? Either way, it's a win-win. And this person had

been at the doctor's office, and there was a pharmacy in the same

building, and the doctor had typed in a prescription refill.

So my client left to go to his car after his appointment

because the prescriptions typically aren't ready, like

super fast in that pharmacy, so he crosses the threshold,

leaving the building, and he thought, "I'm going to turn

around and go back and check and see if my prescription's ready.

I think it might be, and that was like an intuitive hit. Like

I think it might be ready, and he turned around and he went

back in, and as he crossed the threshold, going back inside the

building, he got a notification: your prescription is ready. If

he hadn't paused, he would have been in his car and probably on

the on-ramp of the highway at that point, and then gone crap.

Now I've got to turn around and go back, and it's going to be a

thing. So it's little things like that that you can. I'm

going to use the word test kind of loosely here, but you can

practice with your intuitive skills. Oh, I think I should do

this instead of that. Most decisions that we make-I'm going

to say most and emphasize that-are not life or death.

Sometimes they are. That's a whole different thing. Start

practicing with the little things.

Ask yourself a question and then listen for the answer. Should I

go ahead and turn around and see if my prescription's ready?

Yeah, that feels kind of right. I think I'm going to do that.

Practice. Start listening a little bit more as you build

your intuitive skills and abilities, you can start

aligning that with what you really want to do, how you

really want to show up. You can connect that with your purpose

and have more clarity on how you want to show up in the world and

what you want to do. If it doesn't feel good and you don't

really want to do it, oh, maybe you shouldn't do it. Maybe you

shouldn't. But you've got that voice within, and you just need

to start practicing listening to that voice. You are destined for

way more success than you've ever dreamed possible. I'm your

host Jennifer Takagi, and I look forward to connecting with you

soon.