I have met entrepreneurs who knew almost everything about their business and still didn't know what to do next. Leaders who were used to having answers for everyone else, but had reached a question they couldn't answer themselves. And people whose business problem turned out to be connected to something happening at home or whose private struggle was quietly influencing the way they led their company. Doubt, fear, anger sometimes.
And that nagging feeling that no one could truly understand what was going on inside them. Been there, done that. I learned to stop looking outside myself for reassurance or guidance and ask a different question: who could possibly understand me better than me? There had to be a way!
I started looking in a different direction
For most of my professional life, I was trained to look outward.
As a journalist, I learned to ask questions, listen carefully and look beyond the first answer. Later, working in communications, the corporate world and as an entrepreneur, I learned how organizations function and sometimes don't. I know the pressure of responsibility, deadlines, money, people and expectations.
That experience is still invaluable when I work with someone today. I understand the language of the boardroom and the entrepreneur. I also know that what happens at work rarely stays at work. Relationships, health, fear, ambition, family and business have a habit of finding their way into the same life.
But over time, I became increasingly interested in a different source of information.
What happens when we stop asking everyone else and start listening more deeply to ourselves?
That changed my work, and me!
I learned how to access the supercomputer in us, the subconscious and began exploring states of deep relaxation in which the constant analytical activity of our everyday thinking becomes quieter. Eventually, I started guiding others through that experience. What happened surprised me.
People sometimes arrived with a very specific question and discovered that something quite different needed their attention. A business question could become a question about freedom. A difficult relationship could reveal a recurring pattern. A decision someone had been wrestling with for years could suddenly be seen from another perspective.
I learned not to assume that the question someone brings me is the question we need to answer. And I learned not to separate the CEO from the person, or the entrepreneur from the life they are living.
Sometimes people are afraid of what they might find
I understand that too. Going inward can feel unfamiliar. Some people worry about losing control or discovering something they would rather not know. My advice is usually simple: come without expectations.
You don't have to believe anything. You don't have to make anything happen. After all, why should you be afraid of something that is already part of you?
Our deeper thoughts, emotions, memories and inner knowing don't suddenly begin to exist because we pay attention to them. They are already influencing how we live, what we choose and how we experience our reality. Not as some mysterious external force but through our own thoughts, beliefs, emotions and behaviour! We were created in the image of our Creator. And with that comes something extraordinarily powerful: free will.
We can choose from fear or from trust. We can hold on or let go. We can keep repeating what we have always done or become conscious of it and choose differently. That freedom also comes with responsibility. If you have free will, use it. And choose consciously.
And in that space, beyond the constant noise of the conscious mind, people sometimes encounter what they describe as a deeper wisdom within themselves. It doesn't necessarily tell them what they expected to hear. Instead, it often seems to reveal what is relevant to them at that particular moment. Some of the people I have guided describe the experience as life-changing.
Life-changing experience
I'd like to say that I don't stand outside this process. Through my own experiences and the sessions I have guided, I have been given what I experience as a timeline through my own life. It has helped me understand patterns, choices and experiences differently as well and given me a deeper sense of my own purpose. When I guide someone else, I learn something about them. Quite often, I learn something about myself as well.
There is a phrase you may have heard many times: we are all One. For me, it is no longer just a phrase. Through this work, I have come to experience that beneath our individual personalities, histories and everyday conscious minds, there is a deeper level at which we are connected. Some call it the subconscious. Others call it Higher Conscious, the Higher Self, Source or simply Oneness.
Perhaps that also explains something I repeatedly recognize in these sessions: that extraordinary feeling of recognition. Of peace. Of coming home. As if, for a moment, something deeply familiar has been remembered rather than discovered. It is difficult to put that experience intellectually into words. And perhaps that is the point.
You don't have to believe me for it.
Experience it for yourself.
But going inward is only the beginning
This is also why we don't stop there. Something can feel profoundly true and still deserve to be examined against the reality around us. So, I decided to make the picture even more effective for my own field of expertise.
In our 3-Day Discovery, the journey inward is followed by a second step: looking at the reality around you. Between your people, organizations and systems. And how insights from the inward discovery on Day One, match your present day reality. On Day 3 we look outward and ahead, using external intelligence and our Early Warning Artificial Intelligence to identify information deficits, developments, patterns and signals that may lie beyond the current field of view.
Inward. Around you. Ahead.
I find that combination fascinating.
At exactly the moment humanity is investing enormous amounts of energy into discovering how intelligent machines can become, perhaps we should also become more curious about the intelligence we already carry within ourselves. You don't have to accept my view of it. In fact, I would rather you didn't simply believe me.
Experience it. Enter without expectations. And decide for yourself what it means.
The age of Artificial Intelligence will ultimately teach us something unexpected. Not only about machines.
But about ourselves.
