Day 259: Intuition Loves a Calendar
Living by your intuition is not the same thing as playing it by ear with no organization of your life.
That's a mistake a lot of people make. They think intuition should feel spontaneous all the time, as if structure somehow blocks the flow.
But for me, structure has always created more room for flow.
I have lived by my intuition for decades, following what it tells me to the point of moving to different countries and starting/closing my business.
And I'm also a person who lives by systems and processes because I've learned they keep things so organized and help me to become way more productive.
Being organized means there is a lot less floating around in your mind trying to be remembered.
And when your mind is not trying to remember every appointment, task, promise, idea, and deadline, there is more space to hear the quieter guidance underneath all that noise.
My Google Calendar gave me that quiet. I started using it in 2008 and haven't looked back.
My business back then had a lot going on. I had several private mentoring clients, a weekly radio show, classes I taught by teleseminar, I was always being interviewed, writing guest chapters in people's books, and the Women's Business Empowerment Summit took 6 months of structuring, hotel negotiations, and marketing every year with anywhere from 12-20+ speakers.
Before 2008, a lot of that lived in my head. Looking back, I don't know how I did it all.
I loved what I did, but it was a lot. I said yes to almost everything.
It was through creating programs that I came to realize I thought in systems and processes that made things easy for me and my clients to grasp what could be ethereal concepts in their lives.
I noticed I attracted a lot of analytical people as private clients and also buyers of spiritual and lifestyle business programs because I took what appeared to be a foreign language to them, looking inside to find their true wants and desires and how to build a business based on the life they really wanted to live.
You can be a spiritual-based, intuition-led person who is still grounded, organized, and productive.
And calendaring my life made it so much easier.
Until I started doing that, there were some things I said yes to where I greatly miscalculated how much time they would take.
Once I started using a calendar, everything I did was color-coded into blocks of time, and before long I knew exactly how long it took me to do different tasks, including the creative ones, like writing and videos.
What you can measure can be improved, and I saw patterns and things I could simplify by grouping together similar types of tasks.
For example, I only do creative work first thing in the morning, right after my spiritual practice.
I learned that from watching how long it took me to do things in my calendar.
So now I write to you first thing every day, then I record my videos, and on Saturday I write my Substack article. As the day progresses, I do things that require less creativity and are more just getting routine things done, things that don't require as much brain power.
That structure allows me to get more accomplished in a shorter period of time because I'm working with my energy levels.
It also frees up a lot of space in my mind because I no longer have to juggle everything or wonder what I should do next.
So, when I saw this affirmation from Louise Hay this morning, I knew I had to share it.
"I am organized and productive. I am energetic and enjoy getting my life in order."
I can tell you from experience, looking back almost 20 years now, it's true. Being organized is not the opposite of being intuitive.
It may be one of the things that allows your intuition to come through more clearly.
Your calendar doesn't have to become a cage. It can be a container. A place where your life has enough order that your energy has room to move.
Today's Gentle Practice
Think about one place in your life where too much is floating around in your mind.
Ask yourself:
What simple structure would give my mind more room to breathe?
It doesn't have to be complicated.
Maybe it's a calendar.
A short list.
A block of time.
A repeating routine.
Let structure support your intuition instead of competing with it.
With you,
Lynn
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