August 4, 2007
Vol. 2, Issue 9

"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."
~ Dr. Joyce Brothers

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In this issue:

A NOTE FROM THE CATALYST

For those of you keeping track, this is officially my July edition.:) What a month it was! It started with a big bang - Independence Day, the true purpose of which (in my mind, anyway) is to herald my upcoming birthday on July 9 with fireworks. My celebration this year will be fodder for good memories for the rest of my life because it was my public belly dancing debut... to the surprise of my friends, I shook my coins like a pro!

Then I was off mid-month for a whirlwind trip to work with Adam Urbanski, www.TheMarketingMentors.com, in a small group forum - and for those who know him, you can appreciate that opportunity! While there, I hung out with my good friend The Amazon Queen - that's Kyle King at www.InspiringTheAmazonWithin.com. We had some good Jacuzzi time followed by the best Italian dinner I've had in a long time!

Right after that, I headed out to SLC, Utah, my former hometown for two years, to see Bettye LaVette in concert - it was great to see my old haunts! It gave me a true appreciation for how far I've come in the last 8 years of my life...I'm so grateful for the journey because it's brought me to where I am today.

At any rate, this was a whirlwind month where I kept adding to the mix, the results of which you'll be seeing shortly, and which was completely spontaneous and counter-intuitive to what I thought I should be doing. And that's the point of this issue...to consider how to handle when your intuition is telling you something that opposes what the external world and your linear mind are showing you.

To Your Counter-Intuitive Success ~

Lynn Scheurell, Big Bang Catalyst

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THE HUNCH FACTOR

When is the last time you got a "hunch" and you followed it? Even more important, what happened the last time you got a hunch and you DIDN'T follow it?

According to www.thefreedictionary.com, a hunch is defined as:

1. An intuitive feeling or a premonition.
2. A hump.
3. A lump or chunk.
4. A push or shove.

Isn't that interesting? A push or a shove from some unseen force...and, as a verb, the dictionary defines hunching as "to thrust oneself forward". Sometimes we don't recognize that feeling or experience, the hunch, until after the fact - like a thump on the head, or an "a-ha" moment afterward.

Or it might even feel like you're making it up, like there's no way "the hunch" could be real - like the psychic "tickle" that says to leave your house right now to visit a friend unexpectedly, only to discover that friend needed you in that moment.

In working with my clients to create personal success from the inside out, I have seen time and time again that their "hunch" factor is very much alive and talking to them about what they need. But they either don't recognize it, or can't quite get the message (usually because we humans like to complicate things in our linear minds), or don't believe that it's a valuable tool that is actually serving them to have their best life.

So, following a hunch is what got one of my clients into a new swank office (not to mention a new celebrity market), another met Jack Canfield personally, and another to develop her passion into a viable new digital product line. Where can your hunch take you today?

Three Things You Can Do Today:

  1. Pay attention to spontaneous, unsolicited "messages". These can be anything from a particular but different feeling to an unusual hankering to do something to hearing something that strikes a nerve somehow to an opportunity that comes in out of the blue. Hunches aren't always "feel good" actions, but they usually will lead to outcomes that get you or the situation to a better place.

  2. Look for the "counter-intuitive" in a given situation. If where you are isn't where you want to be, go looking for a hunch by considering what is counter-intuitive to where you are now. For example, if you know your business is not growing the way you want, look for exactly where and in what ways it is not growing, where the customers are not coming from or where you are not providing services to open up the possibilities that might be there all along. One of my clients did this and discovered that she needed to create her own distinct program, based on her life principles for success (by her own definition, incidentally), as opposed to working with, modeling and selling other people's products / programs.

  3. Consider the unrelated but important things. That is, the things that are seemingly unrelated but significant vs. what's actually urgently in your face screaming to get your attention will usually wait or go unnoticed. For example, let's say you have client issues that have deadlines and need immediate resolution but, out of nowhere, you get an invitation to join a week-long retreat that has no agenda but you will be with your peers. This actually happened for one of my clients - and when she decided to take that time off, her business was handled by an assistant for the short-term and she was rejuvenated with new information and new connections to take her business to a completely new level.

Hunches are bits of information from a deeper source that don't make sense to your rational, conscious mind. Remember that the next time you get a hunch - following it might lead you around a corner that takes you to new places that you could never have predicted. If you stay with the hunch and follow it willingly just for the experience, you'll be in the flow of universal messages. And your life will be filled with events custom-made just for you and your next best steps!

© 2007 Lynn M. Scheurell

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Lynn Scheurell, Creative Catalyst, helps people remember who they are so they can align everything they do accordingly. This simple premise has helped nearly 5,000 people she's worked with since 1998 to create success from the inside out and by their own definition. Download a free report to learn "Your 6 Power Points for Personal Success - and How What You Don't Know Can Cost You!" at www.mycreativecatalyst.com

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ABOUT LYNN SCHEURELL

Lynn Scheurell facilitates positive transformation that can create dramatic change for her clients in both their personal lives and businesses. Her company, Creative Catalyst, is a leader in exploring intuitive awareness and linear systems thinking to create success by personal definition.

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