Get Out of Your Head

Today’s guest post comes from Patrick Ryan. He says:

Get out of your head; Get the emotions out of your decisions and go faster – override your body’s natural rhythm – You can do it…

I often hear people say to others or to themselves, “Get out of your head!” I for one love my head, our minds are a gift, a resource, an amazing source of cognitive genius that we humans have developed that supports us in analyzing, assessing, perceiving not to mention telling a story or two. I’ll keep mine thank you very much.

Here’s another, “Get the emotions out of your “business” decisions. Once again we are pointed towards cutting off an amazing resource of wisdom and intuition that could otherwise be harnessed and used for making better decisions. By getting our emotions out of our business decisions we effectively disconnect ourselves from a great source of wisdom. What if we learned instead how to use this emotional wisdom to make even better decisions?

And finally how often do we power through a day without having a good lunch or taking a relaxing walk in the park – just because we have a stressful list of things to do and a world of pressure that makes it challenging to keep our heads up. Our bodies are always guiding us and we must learn how to include the body’s wisdom in our decision process; this is essential.

Ever have a “gut” feeling about something? This is another example of how the body is communicating with us. The challenge is to learn the body’s language, which is very different than that of our minds or hearts.

Imagine hiring someone to work with you and asking them to only use 30% of their talent or buying a computer and only using a third of its potential or buying a car and only using a third of its power or buying a new home and only using a third of its space. That is what we do every moment that we are not accessing all three of our intelligences to the highest degree possible.

It is interesting to note that even though we humans are gifted with these three sources of intelligence, mind, heart and body, we are not naturally good at accessing them all. We each specialize in one of these three, use another as plan B and marginalize the third by pushing it away.

As a supervisor of others, the more you understand about how to access all three of these intelligences within yourself and how to show others to do the same, then the more you will effectively accomplish your goals. This information can shift the entire culture of an organization as well as be successfully used by coaches to facilitate exciting breakthroughs with clients.

Who is Patrick Ryan?

Patrick J. Ryan is an internationally renowned executive coach, leadership trainer, entrepreneur, #1 bestselling author, and founder of Awakened Wisdom Experiences Inc. He specializes in leadership development coaching, Leadership and Coach Training, and working with C-suite leaders as they face the challenges of these demanding times.