Crossing the invisible boundary

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Hello friend,

Henry David Thoreau, the guy who went to live in the woods to figure out what life was all about, cracked the code on accelerated success.

He said that if one advances confidently in the direction of their dream, endeavoring to live the life they are imagining, they will pass an "invisible boundary." He said they would begin to live with the "license of a higher order of being."

That sounds like a VIP pass to me.

This license signifies authority. It means you are no longer operating by the clumsy, slow laws of cause-and-effect in the physical world alone. You are operating with a tailwind. You are collapsing time.

But how do you advance confidently when you do not know the "how"?

You use the GPS system built into your soul: Intuition. The "still small voice."

We are taught to rely on logic, on spreadsheets, on what we can see. But the intelligence that builds worlds is non-linear. It does not run in straight lines. It leaps. To manifest freedom, you must learn to listen to that hunch, that gut feeling, that sudden idea that seems to come from nowhere.

This is the stream of inspired insight. It provides the specific guidance needed for the next step. It will not show you the whole staircase (that would ruin the surprise), but it will always light up the next step.

When you follow this guidance, you move with a higher authority. You stop asking permission from circumstances. You start commanding them.

As you tune into this, the more you read my emails, the more success you will have in distinguishing between fear and intuition. Your decision-making will improve. You will be grateful for having clicked the links in my email as you watch obstacles melt away because you navigated around them before you even saw them.

However, even with a VIP pass and a fast car, the road can get lonely. And sometimes, our own vision is limited by the frame of our own experience.

You need a team. You need people who can see the back of your head when you can't.

Tomorrow, we wrap up this series with the secret weapon of all great builders: The Mastermind.

What is one intuitive "hunch" you have had recently that you were afraid to follow?

Best,

Bradley Woods

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