How to plan your days with logic and intuition
Co-creating with the Universe requires a balance of both our head and our heart, but what does that look like in a practical sense? In this article, I walk you through just how I follow my heart and use my head as I navigate both a busy business and home life.
Living intuitively doesn’t mean being flaky with your plans
First, let’s be clear: I am just as busy and juggling as many life-admin-balls as the next person. I don’t sit meditating all day. I’m busy running a business (did you know this little psychic actually has a business degree?) and raising two girls aged 12 and almost 9 who also have very full lives. Both my husband and I work from home, and have done so since before the pandemic. Suffice to say, we have many schedules to coordinate, just like you.
Perhaps just as surprising as the business degree, I am also naturally a fairly Type A kind of personality. This creates a very complex, confusing and often very competitive inner world, where as a psychic and intuitive, I am highly sensitive energetically, emotionally and indeed psychically… but, this is often in conflict with the part of me who loves a good colour coded schedule.
I share this, as I may be more relatable than you were expecting… and, just like you, I am also trying to balance my (often overactive) logical mind and my intuitive heart.
Planning with head and heart
Regardless of your unique makeup and your background, I’ll hazard a guess you may also be experiencing some of the same challenges I do when it comes to practically balancing your head and heart.
You have a big vision for yourself, some big soul-goals and know there’s real work involved in manifesting your dreams. You aren’t afraid of the work, but aren’t willing to hustle (or hustle alone) to force it into being.
I’ve spent much of my adult working life trying to find my personal sweet spot when it comes to planning with both head and heart. I tend to attract similar people and clients; ambitious, hardworking, women who sense there must be another, far more intuitive and co-creative way of achieving our ambitions and our heart’s desires.
Yes, there is.
Start planning with your heart
First, at the start of each day, allow yourself to tune into your deepest desires, your intuitive hunches, the pull you may be feeling in your life. You can make this part of your daily guidance practice or just part of your morning routine at your desk.
Your spiritual, intuitive heart will give you a sense of what you really want, whether at a big picture level, or small steps to move through that day. Both are welcome. This gives a “true north” to move towards.
Of course, your heart may not know every step of how to get there and your mind may begin to panic! For now, just make a note and leave the how.
The more you work with the Universe and your Spiritual Support Team, the more you’ll receive intuitive clues, signs and symbols to lead you there. The more you ask for that guidance, the clearer the steps will become —hence, the need for a regular practice.
Every day, I connect with my heart, my intuition and my Spiritual Support Team, or what I call my SST as part of my daily guidance practice, to receive the small aligned action steps to fulfill my heart’s desire.
This daily guidance practice asks you to spend a few minutes every day, preferably in the morning, to ask for, receive, interpret, then act on your guidance. Every single day, for just a few minutes or more, you will start to intuit and receive guidance from your SST on how to manifest what’s in your heart.
A daily guidance practice brings aligned action steps
Over time, a regular guidance practice will highlight all the ways the Universe feeds back information and guidance to you. As you move through the smaller, intuitive steps you receive, you will begin to reveal deeper insights, such as information about your soul’s path and purpose.
By intentionally asking for, receiving, interpreting, and acting on your intuition every single day, you will start to see the bigger picture of who you are and where you're going—and how to get there.
Capturing the guidance
Every day, I spend at least a few minutes connecting with my SST and intuition, then jot down all of my impressions— the signs, symbols, intuitive instructions, maybe something from the previous night’s dream—and capture all of those impressions in my digital journal.
After I have finished my daily guidance practice and made my notes in my journal, I then invite my head to the planning session.
After the heart, the head joins the session
Of course, each day brings the practical reality of a logical to do list. Errands, groceries, after-school activities as well as a laundry list of tasks at work (and actual laundry!). There is just some real work that goes into daily life.
So, we now end up with our head’s To Do List alongside our heart’s To Do List.
In fact, there may even be some real head-based planning, thinking and collaborating that supports the heart’s To Do List into something physically tangible.
After my daily guidance practice, I review my calendar for appointments, tasks, deadlines, requests and anything else that comes across my desk daily. As I now plan out my day, I now add my intuitive daily instructions and insights from my morning’s guidance practice to my day.
As I plan my day, I actually make sure time is allocated to any of those intuitive instructions or actions from my daily guidance practice.
A simple intuitive practice that often gets missed
It really is that simple. Adding your intuitive insights to your day’s to do list… but it so often gets missed, meaning we fail to act on our insights.
It’s not unusual in my daily guidance practice to have an intuitive nudge to work with a particular practitioner, or to block out a little more time for a specific type of meditation or some creative play.
Maybe your intuition is asking you to ramp up your self care practices, or take a particular class, or follow up on a lead… but you’re not adding it to your calendar. If it doesn’t go in the calendar, it's not going to happen. And what kind of message does that send the Universe?
If you won’t act on your guidance, why would you be given more?
Weave in energy forecasts
While you’re planning your days, weeks and months, you may also like to work with energy forecasts. Knowing how the energy may shift and change, we can allow leeway with our plans. We can lessen the mind’s frustration when those energies influence or completely derail the head's plans.
Create your own energy forecasts, receive a Personal Energy Forecast or receive my free forecasts each week (in my newsletter) and monthly (on The Guided Collective Podcast). Then, make a note of them in your planner, alongside your head’s To Do List and your heart’s.
Having all these insights alongside your to do lists, keep your guidance front and centre throughout the day.
Give it a try
Start now, with just one thing in your heart you can take action on today, then observe what comes as a result, and you’ll be on your way to living more intuitively in no time.
