I must confess that my burning the midnight oil this past week wiped me out. As I read through a piece of guidance from my upcoming book Unleash The Psychic In You, I cringed because it was clear as day that I’d ignored my own guidance and body’s plea for sleep.

I saw the mistake I was about to make but that didn’t stop me! Why?

I was so excited about unveiling my new ezine that you’re reading now and the launch of www.AmericasIntuitionCoach.com that I had been glued to my computer.

I’m a night owl and most creative in the early hours of the morning. That’s when I find my connection to intuition is heightened.

What time of day do you feel most connected to your intuition?

You can respond here at my blog www.AmericasIntuitionCoach.com

Thankfully my husband Nick came to the rescue and announced we were going for a vacation at the Ritz-Carlton in Laguna Niguel, CA. Music to my ears. We had a stunning ocean front suite.

Here’s photos of the view from our patio, a beautiful sunset and me the following morning, blissfully happy recharging my batteries in bed.

As I sat most grateful by the pool I thought about the biggest mistakes people make that block them from tapping into their intuition.

Do You Know 7-Big Mistakes You Could be Making that Block Your Intuition?

You won’t be disappointed when you create time to get familiar with the 7-Big Mistakes that I reveal in my Intuition Secrets.

Being aware of even one of these big mistakes is going to open floodgates of clarity into your life when it comes to trusting the decisions you need to make.

Mark your calendars on Tuesday August 26 at 5:00pm Pacific Time, with my FREE Intuition Secrets tele-seminar. On this FREE sixty-minutes call, I’ll be revealing what you need to do now to guarantee you make successful decisions always.

I look forward to seeing you on the call.

Happy Intuition Development!

Joanna Garzilli

p.s. Perhaps I’ll see you on Friday August 15 at Yoga Works?

Are you aware of your intuition?

One day you are clear as a bell when it comes to trusting your choices and other times it’s like staring at a blank wall. I had those days in my past, when I didn’t know what was stopping me getting the answers I needed.

Even though I was psychic, I couldn’t see what I needed to see because I had blocked my vision. There was I thinking God was punishing me (yes, ridiculous) when in fact the biggest block to clarity was myself.

Are you aware of what blocks your intuition? Everyone has a blind-spot, everyone.

The good news is you are not limited by your blocks. It can be effortless to remove blocks that stop you getting what you want now.

Once you’ve incorporated the 7-steps I give you below into your life and on a consistent basis, you’ll no longer feel frustration or dread when it’s decision time.

1. Don’t Assume Anything

Do you know why you sometimes assume your next best action step?

You THINK you already know the answer.

I often see people settling for the quick-fix. Those people have lack of willingness to discover knowledge and an aura of laziness.

I was one of those people and you know what happened to me?

My goals crashed and burned every time I assumed.

2 Consuming Obsession

Have you ever been into someone, so much so you can’t think straight?

In the past, I was always filling my head with a new obsession, usually it was a guy who was no good for me.

I’d think and think and think about what he might be thinking and exhaust myself in the process.

That way, I didn’t have to take any RESPONSIBILITY for the decisions I needed to make because I could blame everything on my obsession, truly my distraction.

Can you think of any obsessions you might have that are blocking you from getting the answers you need?

3. Feeling Good About Criticism

When you think you know what’s best for someone else and they make a mistake, it takes the focus off of your own choices.

Making a comment about how someone eats, speaks, whom they date or what they wear that has a derogatory angle, is being self-righteous.

Criticizing another person is a fast way to disconnect you from higher guidance because when you criticize them, you move your awareness outside of yourself.

Don’t tell me you never criticize. Everyone does at times. You’d have to be a saint like Mother Teresa.

Next time you catch yourself criticizing someone with a friend, don’t beat yourself up because that’s self-criticism. Be aware and stop criticizing.

This will create the space for intuition to exist fully in your life.

4. Being Impatient For The Answer

Do you know what happens energetically when you become impatient?

You disconnect yourself from any wise guidance that is available to you.

One example of impatience is inviting friends over for dinner at 7:00pm and being impatient that it’s 6:45pm and they haven’t arrived yet.

By the time your guests show up, you’re going to be flustered and unreceptive. Now imagine those dinner guests as intuition.

Impatience shuts out your intuition.

5. Swimming In Resistance

Can you see when you enter into your stream of resistance?

You unknowingly push away guidance because when you swim in the stream of intuition, it carries you fast to your answer and goal.

In fact, when you’re not used to flowing with intuition, it can feel overwhelming. This is why people choose to stay in resistance.

Any resistance you may be experiencing in your life is only created by you. It is easy to remove with simple techniques that you’ll be able to use from the Intuition Development System.

6. A Natural Tendency to Control

Can you see when you are being caring vs. controlling?

It’s easy to slip into unknowingly manipulating another person.

In your head you may justify that your intentions are wanting what’s best for everyone, however if you’re unable to trust another person’s ability to make a successful decision, you block your intuition.

When you catch yourself trying to maneuver an outcome, step back and give yourself space for a creative solution.

7. Making Your Fear a Reality

Why fear what you don’t know?

Fear manifests itself as an energy you are unaware of or that you don’t understand.

Why fear your future?

Fearing what has not been created immerses you in creating the opposite you what you want.

The next time fear arises within you, ask yourself: What’s the worst thing that can happen?

I’ve learned that it’s never as bad as you imagine it to be. It only gets very painful when you ignore your fear and go into denial.

Take Responsibility For Your Decisions Now

The more you take responsibility for the decisions you need to make, the greater your intuition will serve you well.

Your first easy step is to OBSERVE how these 7-Big Mistakes may be operating in your life now.

Start using your intuition today to recognize your mistakes and you’ll become even more intuitive and confident in the choices you have to make.

Last week when I sat down to look at the draft of my new ezine Confessions of a Psychic before sending it out to the world, I was overwhelmed with gratitude and burst into tears.

There I was all emotional and Winston (that’s my dog) caught a fly and ate it, bless his little heart.

For those of you who’ve known me for several years, you’ve witnessed my transformation right before your eyes. There are a few people I need to acknowledge right now.

Wow, I feel like I’m giving my Oscar acceptance speech!

And the award for most intuitive person goes to…Joanna Garzilli

I couldn’t have completed my book Unleash The Psychic In You (release date September 1, 2008) without the support of my husband Nick, Kim Castle and my brilliant publishing consultant Stephanie Gunning.

I wouldn’t have had the courage to step into the role I’ve chosen of America’s Intuition Coach™ without the guidance of my dear friend, amazing branding expert and designer Kim Castle. Wow, did she get me connected to who I am. Kim has the gift of being able to extract your power from within and make it tangible. I wouldn’t consider working with anyone else.

I also want to acknowledge Ali Brown who has been a great inspiration to me. Watch out, my prediction is she’s going to be the female version of Sir Richard Branson.

My other intuition is that David Neagle will be on Oprah soon. I attended his one-day event back in April and it was AMAZING. I left that event and my inner guidance said, “Joanna, you’ve got to change the way you represent everything you do.”

At the time, that panicked me so much. Yes me, the intuition coach who’s supposed to guide people ended up getting lost in Compton on her way back from LAX to West LA. That is what happens when you get in your head and worry about the future, it gets you off track.

Good news is I got home safely with guidance from my husband Nick on the cell-phone.

Fast forward three months to NEW me, new ezine and new website created by The Website Surgeon Adam Hommey and his wonderful team Tina Forsyth and Amy Taggart. If you’ve already tried to find the right person to build your website, you know what a challenge it can be to find a team who can convey your vision and do it fast. Adam’s team promises and delivers.

p.s. If you like the photo of me on my blog and you need headshots or publicity shots Lesley Bohm is your woman and ask for Don Malot to do your make-up.

I must confess that in the past I used to worry about what people thought of me. I’d act cool and confident on the surface, however a different thought process was running internally.

What if you knew that after I completed my cleanse this past week, I ate fried chicken dipped in honey? I have no regrets; it tasted so good.

Well now you know, and that’s only one confession, there’ll be many more! Alright, I’m going to confess a little more now…

I used to waste a lot of time being unproductive because I was trying to please people who would never appreciate me.

Can you relate?

Today I’m revealing a new me. Well it’s not new, it’s the real me.

(Deep breath)

I’m going to be wearing my heart on my sleeve and sometimes I’m going to tell you things that may surprise, even shock you. Yes, this psychic medium is far from perfect.

Did I mention before that Chapter One of Unleash The Psychic In You is entitled “The F***ed Up Psychic”?

The reason, I’m laying myself bare is because I’ve learned that there is great strength to be found in vulnerability. My biggest challenges have been the best learning I’ve experienced. Those past painful lessons serve me well in my life today.

I attended an amazing live event back in April hosted by David Neagle that inspired a powerful realization. I needed to overhaul my website to be in alignment with the internal changes I’d experienced.

I decided to create www.AmericasIntuitionCoach.com with the intention that my new website will provide more tips, tools and resources to instill confidence in your own intuition. I’ll be blogging regularly about intuition and how you can trust your decisions.

Do You Know the 7-Secrets to Successful Decision-Making?

Lately, I’ve heard people say they know they are intuitive and they know what to do, BUT they don’t know why they don’t follow through and take action on their intuitive guidance.

I’m going to give you 7 intuition secrets that will give you the confidence to make successful decisions that are easy to apply to your life. I teach a 7-step process that you can find below in my Intuition Secrets.

This is the first stage of what I teach in depth, in my Intuition Development System. Look out for my upcoming FREE Intuition Secrets tele-seminar.

I’d love it if you’d share comments here in my blog about how intuition is working in your life. That way, you create an intuitive community to inspire others.

You have to make decisions everyday. What to wear? Where to eat? What brand of toothpaste to buy? Which phone service provider to use? What emails to read first? Birthday gifts to shop for loved ones? Where to live? Who to date? Marriage??

• Are you aware of how many decisions you need to make in a day?
• Do you know how to prioritize your decisions?
• Are you overwhelmed yet?

Don’t blame yourself if you procrastinate or slip into denial. It takes persistent practice to make smart fast decisions.

The more you practice, the faster you’ll trust yourself.

Let’s take a look at the seven basic steps of successful decision-making.

1. Stop Thinking

Do you know why you get overwhelmed? Exhausted? Irritable? Frustrated? Worried? Stressed? Doubtful?

The problem is thoughts are swimming in your head, tons of thoughts. They don’t stop until you make a decision.

Do you know why you don’t make an important decision?

Because you’re always thinking, and even when you think you’re not thinking, you are!

You’re on autopilot and decisions that need to be made are still swimming in your head. Then when you reach your deadline and have to decide, you make a poor choice because you feel rushed or lack clarity.

When you become aware of your thoughts you can stop thinking.

Here’s what you need to do next…

2. Create Space to Feel What You’re Really Feeling

Each thought has an emotion attached to it. That’s why the more decisions you put off making, the more overwhelmed you will get.

Overwhelm creeps up on you slowly. It starts off as doubt, turns into worry, increases to stress, leads to irritability, frustration and finally exhaustion and overwhelm.

Would you like to bypass that rollercoaster of feelings when you have to make an important decision?

You’ve got to allow yourself to feel. When you numb your emotions, they become destructive.

Grab a pen and paper, no excuses and let yourself feel.

What do you feel?

3. Write Down a Challenging Decision You Need to Make

When you experience denial, you don’t even know what you need to decide. This is a great way to cause chaos, miscommunication and upset in your life. The problem is not going to go away.

Do you leave your job? Stay in the unfulfilling relationship? Ask for a raise? Spend money on a much-needed vacation when a credit card debt is due?

Don’t skip over this. Write down your question.

4. Ask Yourself Why You Have to Make This Decision

When you look at the question you’ve written down, ask yourself why this decision is important to you.

For example: Do I end my relationship with boyfriend?

There’s a reason why you feel like you need to make a decision. You need to use your intuition to look inwards and discover your true feelings. The only reason you don’t have the answer or are scared to see the truth is because you have an unconscious fear.

When you break down the decision-making process into steps, it removes fear.

This opens you to the energy of creation.

5. Create the Outcome You Want

You know what you want. What stops you deciding is fear of making the wrong choice.

There is no poor choice if you’re doing the best you can.

Close your eyes and bring your awareness to your solar plexus (a few inches above the belly button and below the heart). Now move your awareness inside this space.

Feel deep inside yourself. You are connecting to your Will that guides you to live purposefully.

You will always make the best choice when you make decisions from this space of awareness.

6. Release Attachment to the Result

Once you’ve made a decision; let go of how you think things are going to turn out.

If you worry or obsess over your choice; you’ll drive yourself nuts.

What’s done is done. There is a learning curve in using your intuition to ensure good decision-making.

Better to decide, than let people, circumstances and life control you.

7. Allow Yourself to Receive Intuitive Guidance

The biggest mistake I see people make is they look for answers outside of themselves.

Can you get quiet enough to hear your inner guidance?

The guidance is always there. In fact every aspect of your sixth sense is giving you support.

Do you know how each one of your intuitive senses can give you guidance?

When you are in tune with your intuition, you’ll feel confident about your next step.

When you allow intuition, it will become a strong presence in your life.

Tune In, Trust It

It’s simple to make successful decisions once you get in tune with your intuition. Depending on how receptive you are will determine how fast you trust yourself.

Start off with making small decisions faster and then when you feel ready, tackle the more challenging choices you need to make.

Keep following these 7-steps above and you’ll soon eliminate self-doubt and become a powerful leader.