The #1 Habit Keeping You Stuck: How to Trust Your Gut & Take Bold Action

Clarity doesn't magically appear when you're overthinking – it emerges when you make decisions and take action despite uncertainty. Most people who claim to lack clarity aren't confused at all; they're simply afraid to trust themselves to handle the consequences of making a choice.

• Trust yourself to make powerful decisions instead of waiting for perfect information
• Meditation provides genuine clarity while overthinking creates mental loops
• Stop outsourcing your decisions to people who don't have the life you want
• There is no "perfect choice" – just the one you fully commit to with positive energy
• Taking action creates data that gives you more clarity than endless thinking
• Your hesitation is usually fear disguised as confusion
• Success is possible regardless of external circumstances – it starts internally
• Fear programs become heavier the more you dwell in them
• Making uncomfortable decisions often provides immediate positive payback
• The dreams you have aren't random – they're available to you if you take action

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Chapters

• 0:00 Clarity Comes from Decisions, Not Discovery
• 3:20 What's Blocking Your Path Forward
• 5:59 Stop Outsourcing Your Decisions
• 10:42 No Perfect Choice, Just Committed Action
• 16:00 Breaking Free from Fear Programs
• 24:40 The Magnetic Leader Accelerator Opportunity

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Clarity isn't something that you find. It's something that you decide, and it will begin to unfold as you move forward. Most people think that they need more information before they can move forward or they need certainty. The truth is, they're avoiding making a decision because they don't trust themselves to handle the process and or the outcome. If you struggle with clarity, ask yourself am I actually confused or am I afraid to make the wrong choice? We're going to get deeper into this topic in this episode. You're going to want show leaders.

Speaker 1: 1:28

This is the Magnetic Leader Podcast, where high achievers, entrepreneurs, leaders stop second-guessing, step into their power and create success that actually feels as good as it looks. I'm your host, lisa Jeffs, your coach, your intuitive guide and the person who's going to help you ditch the overthinking, trust yourself fully and lead with unshakable confidence. Let's get into today's episode. So you're questioning what path to take. What's next for me?

Speaker 1: 2:07

I've been getting a lot of calls this year around clarity. Every year has its own theme, so to speak, and I get really excited because I have people booking calls with me applying for coaching every week and I get to see where people are at and there's always common themes, and this year, clarity is huge. People are questioning where they want to go, what they want to do. They are sick and tired of doing work that doesn't feel good, of living a life, waking up every day going through the motions or, even worse, slugging through the day, and they want to have clarity, clarity and here's the thing with clarity that I tell my clients all the time and when we go through the process I take my clients through. It makes so much sense why they've been having so many challenges, figuring out what they want to do, which, which path to take, and they understand that it has nothing to do with gathering a bunch of information and, you know, going through certain things and looking and trying to find clarity, like you're trying to figure it out. And when we go through my process, whether we are working one-on-one or we're inside the Magnetic Leader Accelerator, they start to see really quickly that in most cases, really quickly, that in most cases they always kind of knew already what they wanted to do. It's never a huge surprise.

Speaker 1: 4:19

Sometimes things can come out of the blue when we go through the process and they're like you know what? I never really thought of this before, but this seems so exciting to me now. However, a lot of times they're like you know what I always? You know, this is something I always wanted to do. I always thought about it years ago, when I was a kid, when I was a teenager, and I, you know, I never thought it was a possibility or I always talked myself out of it. And in a lot of cases, the biggest roadblock, so to speak, that we need to, it's not even necessarily a roadblock, it's simply, you know, a part of the growth equation is learning to actually trust yourself, and that is trusting yourself to make a powerful decision, to say yes, I'm going to try this, I'm going to go in this direction.

Speaker 1: 5:21

And while this year I've been speaking to so many people and so many people want clarity and they are very unfulfilled with where they're at, or frustrated or just darn right unhappy, I'm also noticing a lot of hesitation. There's a lot of fear can. This is part of it is just it's fear is normal been. I've been doing this work for 11 years, coaching leaders, business leaders, entrepreneurs, powerful professionals, and fear is always part of the equation.

Speaker 1: 5:59

It really depends on how you move through fear, what your risk tolerance, what you grew up seeing with your parents, with your caregivers, etc. This can all have an impact on how you feel moving forward, but I've noticed, in particular, a lot of hesitation this year, and it can be due to people feeling very unsteady with the world around them, with the political climate, with the economical climate, whatever it is outside. It can create some hesitation, and one of the things that I'm so grateful for working with my mentors and my coaches who are brilliant, powerful leaders and also incredibly intuitive is one of the things that I can think of all of my mentors have instilled in me is it doesn't matter what's going on outside. There is always going to be chaos. You can always find it in the world. Does that mean that there aren't people making powerful decisions that are in alignment with them, in alignment with their values, saying yes to what their soul is calling them towards and having wild success? Doing it.

Speaker 1: 7:30

There's people that have success and can move forward and create lives that others would look upon and think, wow, how did this person do this? At any point, it doesn't matter what is going on externally. What matters is what is happening internally. Everything is mirrored back to us. It all begins internally and then is mirrored back to us externally. So if you're in a place of hesitation and you want to do something or you want to make a move forward, but you're talking yourself out of it, maybe you're talking yourself out of it because you don't feel you have enough knowledge or confidence or money or X, y, z, and you're telling yourself you're going to just keep thinking about it and trying to figure it out in your mind. Let me tell you something that is not the way clarity comes. You're going to continue going around in loops over and over and over again, and the problem with this is a lot of people will get into a loop and think that they are doing the right thing, and a year goes by, two years go by, three years go by and they look back and think what the heck is even happening? I am in the exact same place. You're not going to think your way out of a lack of clarity? You will not. You need to take action forward. Any action, literally any action forward, is going to give you the data and information you need to then pivot, keep going, make a little bit of a turn. Whatever the case is, the worst thing you can do is continue thinking about something, thinking that clarity is just going to drop from the sky, plant itself in your mind. Now I should preface by saying when we are in states such as meditation, when we are clearing our mind of the thought and the loops and the overthinking, we can get fantastic clarity in those moments. But thinking and thinking and just looping around thoughts is not going to give you the clarity you need. Okay, so if you want to take an action and you're nervous about putting yourself out in some way, meditate, and I don't want to hear any noise about I tried, lisa, and it didn't work. I hear this all the time from my clients and we always laugh about it, because when I dig in and start asking questions, really what happened was they closed their eyes for a few minutes, realized that they still have thoughts and concluded that meditation was not for them. They can't do it, and that's not what meditation is, you will have thoughts during meditation.

Speaker 1: 10:42

There are many forms of practices I should say that you can be involved in. But to keep it super simple, put your hand over your heart, focus on your breath, close your eyes, set the timer for 25 minutes and I know that may sound extreme, but there is a sweet spot that comes when you can just be in that state, noticing your thoughts coming and going. You're going to have thoughts, see them floating away like they're floating away on a cloud, and be in that state of stillness. Be in that state of stillness and why I say 25 minute mark is because once you can get past that initial part where you're going to be overthinking, you're going to be noticing feelings in your back and all the little things. There's a real special moment where clarity can drop. In a real special moment where clarity can drop in and sometimes, like one of my clients who did this practice and had an insane awareness, come in and he ended up pivoting the very next day, going full in on this, and is now a wild success two years later. But keep in mind he wasn't a wild success overnight, but he made that decision and he went full in and it took him about eight months and now it's been two years and it was the best decision he could have ever made he could have ever made. So that is one option.

Speaker 1: 12:31

Anything else, I need you to take action. Okay, this is how clarity comes. I need you to start to trust yourself, trust that you have the answers, and part of that is stop outsourcing your decisions. So one of the things that we do that I do with my clients in the Magnetic Leader Accelerator or one-on-one, is I take them through a process where they are uncovering what is important to them, what is connected to their values, what is connected to a fear program or someone else's value system. I am not telling anyone what they should be doing. Sometimes, when I'm doing intuitive reading, I will get information that flows in and it's usually fabulous and it gives clarity. But even still, you should not be outsourcing anything and just blindly listening to anyone of what you should do. I don't care if this is from a person that you know on this planet.

Speaker 1: 13:43

A psychic reading, an intuitive read whatever it is, you have the authority it is. You have the authority Run everything through your system. It's imperative that you start learning to trust yourself and notice when is it just a fear program coming in? Just a fear program coming in? My parents' fear program, my teacher's fear program? And when is my own intuitive guidance coming in, trying to guide me in a direction? But I'm asking everyone their opinion when half the time these people don't even have the life that you want anyways, but you're asking their opinion, what they should do.

Speaker 1: 14:39

It's the worst thing you can do is start outsourcing and asking a bunch of your friends, asking a bunch of your family members, asking a bunch of your family members, all these people all over the place who have no one authority because they haven't done what you want to do or they have your best interest at heart, but all they're doing is putting their own limitations, limiting beliefs on you or they literally have no investment in what you're doing and they're just willy-nilly giving you advice and we're outsourcing in some of the most important parts of our life. So what I do is I will have my trusted advisors that I trust and I will go there get their opinions, but I do not blindly take anyone's advice or outsource my decisions. I've done that in the past and all it's taken me through is just these loops. Through is just these loops, or I've gone down a path and realized oh my God, what have I been doing the last couple years? This is not what I want to do. Why did I outsource my authority? Do not outsource your authority to anyone.

Speaker 1: 16:07

Next point I need you to really embody is that there is no perfect choice. Just the one you commit to, just the one that you're backing with your energy, with positive expectation. This is what builds the path forward. Not waiting for the perfect choice or thinking that there is one. This keeps people also in loops where they think that one choice is going to be perfect, it's going to answer all their prayers, it's going to be the best thing in the world, and the other one is going to be a complete and utter disaster. And this is a sabotaging pattern. Right, we're looking at it like black or white. No, there's no perfect choice. Our energy, our expectation, our belief system around that choice is going to help to shape it. Again, trusting yourself to make that choice and trusting yourself that you will understand and pivot if necessary and that's not a big deal. It's okay to make a change.

Speaker 1: 17:28

If you do something and you know what, you get excited and you think, you're not sure, but you take the leap anyways. It's okay if, three months down the line, you decide you know what, I don't want to do this anymore or this wasn't the right decision for me, but I have the clarity now. A lot of times, clarity is going to come through taking action on the things that aren't going to be a fit, because that's the only way we can get full clarity and realize oh shoot, I said yes to this and you know what I hate it. It's a disaster, I don't like it at all, but now it's pointing me in the direction of what I do like more. So you see what I'm saying here. There is no wrong decision. The act of taking action, the act of moving forward, is going to give you so much clarity, whether it is right or wrong. Again, there's no really right or wrong. It's just data, it's information, it's do we like this? Do we like this better? Do we like this path even better? Maybe we like this one a little bit less, and all this is giving us data and information and clarity to move forward.

Speaker 1: 18:49

The problem is again people, especially high achievers, are really, really you know, and I obviously I resonate with the label of a high achiever, so I'm including myself in this. We make things so much harder for ourselves and part of it is this very black and white thinking this all in or not, and we think we have to have it all figured out before we say yes to something and it's just not the case. Next one is we got to start releasing the fear. We got to start releasing the fear. Stop dwelling in fear programs. We are in a time of our earthly development. Consciousness is shifting so quickly.

Speaker 1: 19:46

If you are choosing to stay in a fear program and just kind of ruminate in the fear over and over again, choosing not to take action because of what, if, what, if, what, if? Because of survival patterns and again, I know it's not that easy, but we still have the responsibility to do the work, to do the healing, to move through fears, to move through any kind of trauma that's keeping us stuck. But we're going gonna find that it's getting harder and harder to stay in those patterns. You're gonna get more frustrated. There's gonna be a part of you that's trying to pull away from that, that's trying to rise to a higher way of being, that is trying to connect with divine guidance, connect with the light, connect with the flow, connect with how this world actually works. And then there's the part of you that's going to feel like an anchor, dragging you down with the fear program. It's going to get even heavier. It's going to be pulling you down even deeper.

Speaker 1: 21:05

It's very imperative that you start doing the work to release these fears. A huge part of the work that I do with my clients is releasing these fears, shifting the beliefs, shifting it at that core level to recalibrate you to a new identity, to a new way of being, to a new way of showing up in the world. You cannot continue acting through fear. It's debilitating, it's insidious, it will suck years from your life.

Speaker 1: 21:39

Take the action, make the move, invest the money, do the thing. The more you can do that and act, even if you are a bit fearful, even if you are a bit uncertain, unsure, this is the only way to start proving to yourself that there's something different. This is the only way to start proving to yourself there's a different way of being. And the more you can do this and move forward, the more you will be mirrored back. Oh, it's actually fine. Oh, you know what? All that stuff I built up in my head did not happen. Oh, this is even better than I thought it was going to be. Oh, I made that big investment and the money came back. Wow, yes, this stuff happens all the time.

Speaker 1: 22:38

All the time I work with clients every single week, brilliant leaders, business owners, entrepreneurs and they are powerful leaders, and still they have fear. Right, we are still working through fears and because we are doing it together, it can be faster and easier and I get to witness them making big decisions, making big moves, making big career changes, making big investments in themselves, and we get to see that immediate, positive payoff that comes back to them. And this just reinforces that the only way forward is to trust and to move without fear. To move without fear. The only way to move towards what you want is to. You have to start making different decisions. You have to start showing up differently, trusting yourself, not looking for always like easy ways to kind of work around something because those ways aren't easier, something because those ways aren't easier.

Speaker 1: 23:50

It's just an illusion A lot of times. The easiest way is just making the challenging decision at the beginning, taking that leap, but then getting that immediate payback in whatever way, shape or fashion. And sometimes it's not immediate, sometimes you have to wait a bit, but it comes back and that's the only way to continue to elevate and grow and expand and become more resilient and powerful in your true power. We're not shrinking, we're not telling the story that, oh, I don't know. I'm confused, I have lack of clarity, because that is a pattern and that lack of clarity keeps people stuck for so long. It's one of those patterns that I see where people just get into the illusion that they can just think their way out of it and they just keep thinking and trying to figure it out and figure it out and they just keep taking two steps forward, two steps back. Two steps forward, two steps back. No, you gotta do something different and a lot of times it's something uncomfortable at the beginning. Trust yourself. Trust yourself, everything is going to be okay.

Speaker 1: 25:08

We got to stop thinking of worst case scenarios. Turn off the news, delete the social media accounts that are bringing you to fear programs. Stop engaging in conversation with family, friends, loved ones that are filled with fear and doubt and doom and gloom. Right, there's so many amazing things happening. People literally creating their dream life because they had the courage to go for it, because they have the courage to say yes to something different, other than status quo, mediocre bullshit. And I'm going to start apologies if you have kids in the room, but there are people that come to this planet that have no desire to push themselves to do anything great and they're quite hunky dory with the status quo. And then there are people who keep dreaming and hoping and wishing. And those hopes and dreams and wishes are not random. They are there because it is available for you to do something different, to do something different, but you gotta pull deep and get that courage and make that decision before you start to see it. It all starts internally before you start seeing it externally.

Speaker 1: 26:39

Leaders, thank you for joining me. This was a very important one. If you're still listening, please trust yourself. You know what's going on, you know what to do, you have that within you, and if you need a little bit of help and want to speak to me about private coaching or the Magnetic Leader Accelerator, please reach out. You can apply for a test drive consult I'll put the link in the show notes or feel free to send me an email at info at lisajeffscom. I'd love to chat with you and hear from you. We are going to be raising the price soon of the Magnetic Leader Accelerator Beta. It's a perfect time to get in and score the bonuses of a few private coaching sessions that come with the beta opportunity. Once we are out of the beta, there will be no one-on-ones included, so no hesitation, take action, let's chat.

Speaker 1: 27:43

I'm excited to help you make 2025 the best year yet. It's already unfolding so incredibly. I can't even explain to you how fast results are coming this year. Even last year was pretty quick too, but this year especially, shifts and transformations. I had one client in the Magnetic Leader Accelerator tell me that the low-grade anxiety and pressure that she had been feeling for so long just kind of in the background, always there in her body has completely dissipated. She feels light and she's literally following her purpose now, and I can even see it in her aura. I can't tell you the power of what's coming through this year. If you want to be a part of it, reach out. Let's chat. As always, I love you.

Speaker 2: 29:00

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