If advice isn’t the answer, what actually guides your business decisions?

[0:29] Hi there! Welcome or welcome back to Inner Impact and to the second episode of the mini-series In 2026, You Don’t Need Any More Advice. In our last episode, we explored what working with my clients taught me about seeking advice and why I believe you don’t need it anymore, in business or elsewhere, and I might have left you wondering what you might need instead. Well, here is what I have learned from working with my wonderful clients, I’ve learned that things for them really start to shift, not when they get the quote-unquote right advice, but when they start building trust in their own inner guidance, when they start reconnecting with what I like to call the personal compass and start trusting its guidance in making business decisions. So what’s a personal compass? Well, it is not a framework. It’s not a step-by-step plan. It’s definitely not a one-size-fits-all solution. Your personal compass is something much more alive, more multidimensional, and more personal than that.

[1:43] And when I say personal compass, I mean something that helps you choose your direction in business, in life, in relationships, really in anything. It’s a living, breathing tool that you can shape and picture in your own way. And when I say multidimensional, I mean that your compass can have lots of different parts or dimensions. Maybe you use your values to make one decision, your physical sensations to make another, or maybe you trust your gut and go with what feels right in the moment.

[2:17] Sometimes you might lean on one dimension more than another, and sometimes you combine them, you mix and match them, and that’s totally okay. So to make things clearer, I grouped the dimensions into four categories. You can start there and then, of course, rename or reframe them as you want because the compass is your personal compass. So here are my four groups. So the first one is sensing, which includes all those elements that help you notice. This is where information first arises and where you become aware of it, before decision-making and before action.

[2:56] The second group is interpreting, which includes all those elements like your values, your strengths, your motivations, your unique traits, but also your boundaries or your inner narratives that help you make sense of what you notice. Here you translate signals into meaning and orientation and you define what matters and what doesn’t, so you can make aligned decisions and take aligned actions. The third is resourcing, which includes all those elements that help you nurture your energy so you can sense and interpret clearly and then act with intention. And then the fourth is acting, which is where insight becomes movement, where you turn your aligned decisions into aligned actions. And when action is guided by the other three areas, it feels meaningful and self-regenerating rather than depleting.

[3:51] A thing that I love about this concept is that your personal compass isn’t static. It evolves as you do. You might have some core dimensions that stay with you, but as you grow and change, your compass grows and changes too. It is a living thing, not a rigid set of rules. And you can shape it however you want. Using a metaphor to make it more visual helps you access it more easily. But it doesn’t need to be an actual compass. You know, some of my clients, for example, picture it as a tree. The important thing is that the image resonates with you and actually works for you. And here is the cool part. Your personal compass is not something that you need to build from scratch, that you need to go and look for. All its dimensions are already in you and you are already using them. Even if you don’t call it a compass. For example, every time you decide to work with a new client or not, because it feels aligned or not aligned with your values, you are using your compass. Or every time that you trust your energy, even if it feels a little risky to start a new project, you are using your compass.

[5:12] And every time you pause to check in with yourself, with your mind, with your body, with your spirit, to make a decision concerning your business or creative work, you are accessing your compass. You are creating more awareness around what feels right for you. Now, as you may have noticed from what I said so far, to access your personal compass, you need to look and listen inward.

[5:41] And I know that listening inward instead of outward can feel hard and sometimes even a little scary, right? Sometimes you might doubt what you are hearing or wonder if you’re just making it up. Or maybe you feel like you’re not hearing anything at all. Well, if you are hearing something, you can ask yourself, how does it sit with me? Does it resonate? What do I notice in my mind or body when I reflect on what I’m hearing? And what are those feelings or sensations telling me?

[6:17] And if you are not hearing anything, you can still ask yourself, what is this silence telling me? What else am I noticing in my mind or body? Because sometimes not hearing anything is information too. And are you noticing how I’m asking a lot of questions?

[6:36] That’s because questions are portals. They are one of the main ways you can reconnect with your personal compass. asking questions and then listening, really listening, with care and without judgment.

[6:51] That’s how you start building trust in your inner guidance system and creating your multi-dimensional living personal compass. And what happens when you’ve started reconnecting with your personal compass? How do you use it? Well, basically to make decisions and take action in a way that feels true to you. Think making an important business decision like launching a new offer or changing your pricing or choosing collaborators. But it is also about the, you know, tinier decisions and actions because everything compounds in the end. Ultimately, your personal compass is what empowers you to bring to life your meaningful, impactful work with confidence and in a way that feels aligned and good. The more you practice, the more you will be able to use your compass automatically without even thinking about it. Until then, once you’ve reconnected with it, you can always remind yourself to access it in a more intentional way. It is an ongoing practice like every important work in life. And here’s another interesting thing. Your personal compass helps you with advice, too. Because even when you do want to seek advice, your personal compass is there to help you assess whether that advice is truly aligned with you, with your needs, with your values, with your core self.

[8:20] So you can seek and embrace advice in a more aware, intentional, and healthy way without outsourcing your decision-making or your agency. See, this work of reconnecting with your personal compass matters because it empowers you to create, to work, to live in alignment. And another reason this work matters is that in the times we are living in, times of fascism and darkness, you do need to be able to trust your personal compass. Because it is the tool that can help you stay grounded and resourced in all this madness.

[9:00] It’s the tool that can point you toward a community that can nurture you through reciprocal support. It’s the tool that can help you discern what’s yours to address or fight and what isn’t. And ultimately, it’s the tool that supports your work of personal liberation toward a collective one. And that’s exactly why this work is so important to me, why I am passionate about helping you reconnect with your personal compass. Truth is, I want to see more people like us. And by us, I mean people who struggled with feeling seen and heard, people who learned to second-guess themselves and to bend, to comply or fit in, and people who needed to shrink and hide to feel safe.

[9:49] Well, I want to see us unlearn all these conditionings and patterns. I want to see us liberate ourselves from them, reclaim our agency and our power so we can truly enjoy our lives, our businesses, and whatever we are creating so we can bring to life our incredible visions with care, joy, and alignment. And so we can make that impact, that difference that we crave, and finally come together to collectively uproot those systems that oppressed us. My purpose is to create liberation from the inside out, especially for those who are transforming their experiences of oppression into inspiring visions for collective liberation.

[10:36] And I know that it is an ambitious vision, but every contribution matters and compounds, so this is mine. Okay, let’s come back to the personal compass and wrap up. If you’ve been feeling like that advice isn’t what you need anymore or isn’t what you want right now, maybe what you really need is to start building trust in your own inner guidance, to start reconnecting with your personal compass, whatever that looks like for you, to start asking questions, listening inward, and letting your compass evolve as you do. So, want to start now? Okay, so I want to invite you to listen to the prompts and feel free to pause the episode to reflect on them or come back to them later. Okay, ask yourself, what dimensions or elements can I include in my personal compass? Think about what usually helps you make a lot of decisions in business or other areas of life. And remember that this is not set in stone. You can update the dimensions if they don’t work for you anymore.

[11:39] And ask yourself also, how do I picture my personal compass? What’s an image that truly resonates with me? As we mentioned, visualizing your personal compass can help you make it more memorable and easier to access. Hi, if you paused to reflect, welcome back. Before we close, I want to invite you to stay curious about what your personal compass already looks like. You don’t need to define it perfectly. Just noticing is enough for now. And it is your first act of reconnection. Also, if you’d like a space to explore this with someone who can walk beside you, you can book a complimentary clarity session with me. We can look at how your personal compass is already showing up and how coaching might support you in trusting it more fully while you bring to life your aligned, impactful work. Thank you so much for listening today. In the next episode, we will talk about some of the signs that it might be time to stop spinning your wheels and how your personal compass can help you notice when something is off. Until then, keep tuning into your personal compass.