Discipline: Discernment
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The Power of Discernment
A great deal of tension exists between what we want to do and what we think we should do in order to personally or organizationally grow and develop. The problem is that we're conditioned to manage that tension by relying on what we know without questioning that knowledge.
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Knowledge awareness is a useful tool to help individuals, executives and business owners become more conscious about the way in which they think about change, and to become more open to the resulting change opportunities. We can more consciously make better decisions even when they take us out of our comfort zones and/or challenge what is assumed or expected.
Building metacognitive awareness means being more mindful about "how" we know as well as what we know so that we don't continually fall back into default responses to change. Its the first step to asking the right questions that can break seemingly intractable decision making and problem-solving gridlock.
When discernment becomes a discipline, space is made for the knowing that comes "through" us but that we're not aware of. It can be intuition or right-brain creative insights. Listening to this greater intelligence can result in new options and choices far outside our usual field of knowledge. Tapping into it gives us a better framework for determining what to say yes or no to and a crystal clear point of power from which to move forward.
[DDET Blog post: Discernment – Its An Honor] Here’s a new way to think about lead generation: make yourself a funnel for your intuitive leads, pay attention and act on them without hesitation. As metaphysician Florence Scovel Shinn taught “Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.” To better discern among myriad choices, change responses and scenarios why not just ask for leads from a higher intelligence that’s always available and take it from there?
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Why
- Making the right decisions requires knowledge. The problem is, that you're buried in data and information and its making you less confident, not more. You wonder if you're even asking the right questions.
- There's risk in taking a new direction. You want the best ideas and creative thinking from yourself and your team but the reality is resistance, indecision and paralysis.
- You pay attention to gut feelings and reactions. On the other hand, you have a history of war stories about things that didn't pan out, failures and barely escaping with the shirt on your back. Who will believe in you with a track record like that?
How
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Knowledge awareness is a useful tool to help individuals, executives and business owners become more conscious about the way in which they think about change, and to become more open to the resulting change opportunities. We can more consciously make better decisions even when they take us out of our comfort zones and/or challenge what is assumed or expected.
Building metacognitive awareness means being more mindful about "how" we know as well as what we know so that we don't continually fall back into default responses to change. Its the first step to asking the right questions that can break seemingly intractable decision making and problem-solving gridlock.
When discernment becomes a discipline, space is made for the knowing that comes "through" us but that we're not aware of. It can be intuition or right-brain creative insights. Listening to this greater intelligence can result in new options and choices far outside our usual field of knowledge. Tapping into it gives us a better framework for determining what to say yes or no to and a crystal clear point of power from which to move forward.
[DDET Blog post: Discernment – Its An Honor] Here’s a new way to think about lead generation: make yourself a funnel for your intuitive leads, pay attention and act on them without hesitation. As metaphysician Florence Scovel Shinn taught “Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.” To better discern among myriad choices, change responses and scenarios why not just ask for leads from a higher intelligence that’s always available and take it from there? Full post[/DDET]