Flashes of insight are those moments most often experienced with a sharp sense of “a-ha!”, your head tilting, eyes widening, and lips turning into a smile as a new understanding, appreciation, or depth of meaning and connection takes hold in our minds.  

Beyond the felt experience, these moments of insight also signify when new information hasn’t simply just been added to our existing mental framework, but has instead actually changed that framework, and in so doing, opened up greater possibilities for larger changes to unfold in our mind and in our very being.

In other words, insights are what real transformation feels like! 

Following the initial flash of “a-ha!”, the impact of the insight ripples all throughout our mind. Some ripples change and reorganize previous understandings of a situation, while others change the very way we perceive and organize new information flowing in. Insights can not only change our narratives around what’s happening in the past, what’s happening now, and what possibilities exist in the future, but can actually change our narrative of how we understand ourselves and our place in the world!

Therefore, insights are catalysts for ongoing personal growth, and as such, are of premium value for us all. 

For these reasons, one of my primary goals as a Coach is to help my clients cultivate and experience transformative insights that are most relevant to them and their goals. And beyond simply catalyzing the emergence of insight, its equally important to reflect upon and discuss these insights to help ground and unpack the various implications and impacts that they might have for future courses of action.

At the end of the day, Insight + Reflection + Action = Accelerated Growth, which then leads to further insights, in a self-perpetuating, iterative manner. 

What are some insights you’ve had recently? How have your further reflections on them impacted your daily life? What new actions are you taking as a result?

More importantly, what are you doing to cultivate and increase the likelihood and frequency of insights unfolding in your mind?