On the whole when discussing the many aspects of leadership we don’t speak much about true intuition or the help that might be available to us by ‘reading the tea leaves’.
Walking the cliff path in Cornwall this past week and using the time – while battling the wind and ‘enjoying’ the steep inclines and often unstable down slopes – to ask my higher self for guidance about some key business decisions we are contemplating, a number of signs were offered.
The first day, an abundance of big, hairy (and oddly beautiful) caterpillars crossed the path at regular intervals.
The second day (and again on the 5th day) we came across a very large collection of seals basking on the sand. Some of the key aspects of seals is their playful, childlike, and fun-loving nature plus their friendliness and human-like sense of creativity.
By the 4th day, we were receiving visits from glorious butterflies (that hadn’t been visible on previous days)…literally stopping us in our tracks at one point by landing on the stone in front of our next step.
So what you may say…we are out in nature, all these creatures should be expected. Yes, that’s true…but one of the core aspects we’ve been exploring in our business deliberations is how we use the metaphor of the transformational journey of the caterpillar to a butterfly in our work.
So much so, it is itself a metaphor for our own transformational journey.
Seeing these signs (and there were others) in abundance for me at least, puts me in contact with a deeper sense of support and guidance. They are indicators of encouragement – to keep going with the work we are planning, to hold it lightly and with a sense of fun but also to undergo our own transformation and support others who are ready to do the same.
Yes, it can all be dismissed as nothing of importance – just mere coincidence. But when we open up big questions, connect ourselves with all the invisible, or actually very visible, help available from nature and the Universe, we can access a deeper level of insight and support. We move into a process of cooperation that brings data and insight of a very different nature.
When will you start to factor that into your business meetings?