When people follow their intuition, they naturally pick the next thing they need. Joe shares his own story: in high school, socially awkward and trying to “improve” by quitting smoking (which lasted until his 30s), he naturally gravitated to hacky sacking. Decades later he learned that hacky sacking was the exact neurological therapy he needed for sensory processing differences—midline-crossing coordination exercises. His nature knew what he needed before his mind could understand it.
Joe sees this pattern constantly in clients: “I know basically the dance steps of transformation… I will watch people and they, if they’re just following their intuition, man, they will just pick the next thing. And it’ll be like, oh my God, they picked it perfectly again.”
This is the difference between building a canal (planning the exact path, tremendous effort, false safety) and reading a river (trusting your capacity to handle situations, learning from what you can’t handle). It feels like faith at first, but eventually becomes just what you do.
“My nature, my authenticity improved me in ways that I didn’t even know were happening.”
Related Concepts
- Authenticity is a river, not a destination
- Alignment eliminates procrastination
- Self-discovery, not self-improvement
- Your nature knows what you need next
- Intuition sees what the logical mind cannot
- The fixing mindset perpetuates the very stuckness it tries to solve