In 1999, I was the Process Manager for what was then considered to be the most innovative company in the world but I warned my bosses that all was not right in their kingdom.  That company was Enron.

And yes I, personally, wrote the Disaster Recovery Plan for Enron . . . a real resume ice-breaker :)

In 1999, I also liquidated my entire stock portfolio at its peak -- literally the week it peaked . . . and converted everything in to a 7 year fixed CD.  People told me I was being foolish but soon, VERY soon, they changed their tune.  I knew what was coming and my instinct was that it was the right time to shift -- and the right strategy to use.  In retrospect, that decision was correct.

In 2000, I went to Boston to build a Change Management platform for an implementation of Siebel that was considered so radical -- and ultimately so successful -- that I was offered an ownership stake in a software company to replicate it for others.  The dot com crash ended that -- a crash I had expected and said was coming.

I was the Lead person for several major Change initiatives at some of the largest corporations in the world.  I was the Operations Manager and 2nd in command for testing for what was then (and may still be) the largest software implementation in the world -- Kaiser Permanente's HealthConnect -- but, while there, with my career on a rocket ship path upwards my daughter died at Kaiser and the career . . . well it went away.

As a psychic I predicted, years in advance, just what was going to happen in and with the economy, giving dates and scenarios and, something I didn't hear a lot of others doing, the reasons why these predictions were likely to happen.  

I am, somehow, able to see not only what is going to happen but also WHY it is going to happen.  I am sure I am not alone in this, either; there are other "psychics" with these same skills.  As an economics "prognosticator" I think it safe to say that in this particular arena I truly do have a "Gift" -- but this "Gift" is not exclusive to me.

Being "psychic" helped me in business -- A LOT; the skill sets were, for me (at least) practically interchangeable.  An odd marriage, perhaps, but intuition and business fit together like peanut butter and jelly . . . developing your intuition (and don't let ANYONE tell you differently) has a very PRACTICAL application. 

So, with that "psychic thang" as my foundation, coupled with my expectation that the worst economic storm is past and a new and better way is slowly sliding down the birth canal, I am attempting to bring these two skills together -- in a very "public" way.  The time to get in "the game", again, is fast approaching.  The economy is going to get better.  This is a gold mine time, I believe -- a period that will see a lot of innovation and wealth creation.  I intend to be a part of that. 

I see it happening.

"Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire, you need an astrologer." -- J. P. Morgan

Douglas Dean of the New Jersey Institute of Technology studied the relationship between intuition and business success. Dean found that 80 per cent of successful executives had above average precognitive powers.  'Success' was defined as doubling profits over a five- year period. Pretty impressive !!

According to the June, 2008 issue of Newsweek, "intuitionists" -- what you and I might call a psychic -- have crossed into the world of mainstream business, some receiving $10,000 a month per company for their 'insights'. In another study (2006, PRWeek/Burson-Marsteller CEO Survey), 62% of CEOs who were polled said they primarily use their "gut feelings" when making decisions. 

Management professor Weston Agor of the University of Texas in El Paso found that of the 2,000 managers he tested, higher-level managers scored highest in intuition. Most of these executives stated that initially they gathered all the relevant information and data available, but if the data was conflicting or incomplete, they then relied on intuitive approaches to come to a conclusion.

Many famous business leaders openly stated their use and reliance upon intuition: J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Donald Trump, John D. Rockefeller and Conrad Hilton, as well as many more.  There is a famous story about Conrad Hilton and his "hunches" . . . a New York property was to be auctioned in a sealed bid. Hilton evaluated its worth at $159,000 and prepared a bid in that amount. He went to sleep that night and when he woke up, the figure $174,000 stood out in his mind. He changed the bid and submitted the higher figure and, as a result, won the auction.

The next highest bid was $173,000. Hilton later sold the property for several million dollars.

Business and Intuition -- the next frontier . . . that is my prediction :)