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This is about the power of “you squared” The quantum leap strategy for breakthrough performance. Making a quantum leap—going from you to you 2 —means accomplishing far more, in less time, with only a fraction of the effort you’ve been giving. In you 2 , Price Pritchett outlines unique, ynamic methos for leaping beyon orinary performances an achieving ramatic results. !uit trying harer. Think beyon what common sense woul allow. Make your move before you’re reay. "ook inside for for opportunity. #ollow the unconventional strategy of you 2 to penetrate imaginary barriers an pursue your true potential.
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A True Story I’m sitting in a quiet room at the Millcroft Inn, a peaceful little place hien behin the pine trees about an hour out of Toronto. It’s $ust past noon, late %uly, an I’m listening to the esperate souns of a life&or&eath struggle going on a few feet away. There’s a small fly burning out the last of its short life’s energies in a futile attempt to fly through the glass of a winowpane. The whining wings tell the poignant story of the fly’s strategy — try harder . 'ut it’s not working, The fren(ie effort offers no hope for survival. Ironically, the struggle is a part of the trap. It is impossible for the fly to try har enough to succee at breaking through the glass. )evertheless, this little insect has stake its life on reaching its goal through raw effort an etermination. This fly is oome to ie. It will ie there on the winowsill. *cross the room, ten steps away, the oor is open. Ten secons of flying time an this small creature coul reach the outsie worl it seeks. +ith only a fraction of the effort now being waste, it coul be free of this self&impose trap. The breakthrough possibility is there. It woul be so easy.
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+hy oesn’t the fly try another approach, something ramatically ifferent -ow i it get so locke in on the iea that this particular route, an etermine effort, offers the most promise for success +hat logic is there in continuing, until eath, to seek a breakthrough with more of the th e same/ )o oubt this approach makes sense to the fly. 0egrettably, it’s an iea that will kill. Trying harer/ isn’t necessarily the solution to achieving more. It may not offer any real promise for getting what you want out of life. 1ometimes, in fact, it’s a big part of the problem. If you stake your hopes for a breakthrough on trying harer than ever, you may kill your chances for success.
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The Promise !uantum "eaps you 2
2hange your personal rules for success. !uit trying harer. Ignore conventional ways. Think beyon what common sense woul allow. 1uspen isbelief. #ocus on ens rather than means. 0ely on the unseen forces. 2hoose a ifferent set of risks. Trust in the power of pursuit. 1eek failure. 3et uncomfortable. 4pen your gifts. #all in love. Make your move before you’re reay. "ook inside for the opportunity.
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The Promise *re you reay for this 0ight now, in this moment, you are capable of exponential improvement in your performance. 5ou can multiply your personal effectiveness, hit new highs, an shatter your ol achievement recors. The results you can have will be har for you to imagine. 5ou can become you 2 . 5ou on’t have to settle for things as they are now. That can change. 6ramatically. If you’re reay, life is prepare to give you a breakthrough e7perience. 5ou can $ump to a higher orbit of achievement8live the ream8en$oy a completely ifferent plane of success. *lso, you on’t have to be content with improving things incrementally or graually. %ust as your level of performance can improve rastically, so can your rate of accomplishment. #urthermore, the you 2 formula requires far less effort than you’ve given in the past. 5ou haven’t been reaching your full potential. 1o far, you haven’t even come close. )o matter how you wish to measure success, regarless of how you efine achievement, you have barely scratche the surface of what you personally can accomplish. 'ut maybe the time has come to change all that. Maybe you’re reay to make a quantum leap.
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You don’t have to be content with improving things incrementally or gradually.
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Quantum eaps Quantum leap is a term taken from the vocabulary of the new physics—quantum physics—the science behin such technological breakthroughs as lasers, television, computers, space communication, an nuclear energy. !uantum physics is escribe as the most powerful science ever conceive of by human beings. It requires a ma$or rethinking of such concepts as time an space, an how the human consciousness operates.
!uantum physics also has staggering implications regaring you, your potential, an the power of the min. To put it simply, as human beings we are going to have to reframe our ieas about the universe an how we fit into it. #re *lan +olf, in his awar&winning book title Taking the Quantum Leap, escribes the term as8 the explosive jump that a particle of matter undergoes in moving from one place to another…in a figurative sense, taking the quantum leap means taking a risk, going off into an unchartered territory ith no guide to follo!
Physicists stuying quantum mechanics note that particles make these $umps/ ithout apparent effort an ithout covering all the "ases between the starting an ening points. +hat’s going on here -ow oes this happen *n is it possible for you as an iniviual to o something very similar in your personal performance
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To put it simply! as human beings we are going to have to reframe our ideas about the universe and how we fit into it.
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you2 Most people operate with a minset that assumes success comes one step at a time. The unspoken but popular notion is that we must move systematically from our present level of achievement to the ne7t. Then, the thinking goes, from that stage we can begin working towar grauating to still the ne7t higher level in the sequence. 3raual progress. This is an unfortunate misconception, an it’s clearly reflecte in the way we function. They go about, ay to ay, striving to make incremental gains in their performance. That’s pretty routine. That’s the pathway of conventional growth. 'ut your life simply oes not always have to operate that way. *vancing at a measure pace—step by step from where you are to a little bit better—orinarily feels easier, more natural, an even safer. 'ut in certain areas of your life you can $ust as easily think in terms of skipping levels. 5ou can move from your present level of achievement to one that is several stages higher—irectly. 5ou make the quantum leap. 5ou become you 2 . Instea of accepting present circumstances or being content with graual improvement, you can go for a breakthrough. you 2 implies an e7plosive $ump/ in your personal performance that puts you far beyon the ne7t logical step. It’s a formula for stunning avances in achievement an the reali(ation of your reams. The
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concept is one of e7ponential gains rather than incremental progress. 5ou might compare it to multiplying instea of aing—it means a geometric progression in your effectiveness. That’s e7citing as well as provocative, but it gets even better. 0emember, quantum leaps can come ithout apparent effort . These are high velocity moves that carry you to ramatically higher performance levels without a time&consuming struggle. !uantum leaps seem to violate common sense8utterly9 The iea of moving to a higher orbit,/ an skipping several rungs on the achievement laer in the process, strikes people as far&fetche, maybe even outrageous. *fter the fact, quantum leaps maybe viewe as practical, sensible, even obvious moves, but they typically o not come to you as the obvious moves at the moment. :sually it’s in retrospect that you perceive their hien logic an elegance. Invariably, quantum leaps are not comple7 or intricate maneuvers. They ten to be simple, energy efficient, an time&saving. you 2 , the quantum leap strategy, can eliver those special reams an ambitions that you instinctively feel shoul be yours. 'ut the breakthrough emans a raical eparture from some of your habits. you2 implies an "e#plosive $ump% in
your personal performance that puts you far beyond the ne#t logical step.
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Change your personal rules for success. "everaging up your personal effectiveness by an orer of magnitue—going from you to you 2 —is not a commonplace iea. 5ou shoul not be surprise to hear that unconventional success calls for unconventional approaches. !uantum leaps require parao7ical behavior. :nusual moves. *ctions that on the surface often seem to contraict common sense. *s human beings, though, we orinarily go with the obvious. +e fall into the habit of relying on behaviors that seem to have worke best for us over the years. +hen we take an approach that seems to be very serviceable, an which enables us to perform well an succee, we become attache to it. +e on’t reaily relinquish that habit pattern. In fact, there’s a tenency to follow our favorite approach more an more often, such that we get better an better at hanling things that particular way. This aroitness with a certain approach results in our over&epenence on the strategies an tactics it involves. +e resist new maneuvers because they make us feel clumsy, awkwar, an more at risk. 'ut if you want to accelerate your rate of achievement rapily, you must search out an vigorously employ new behaviors. )ew attitues. 5ou must be willing to break out of your routines in orer to make the quantum leap.
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The things that worke for you in the past very likely coul, sooner or later, lose their serviceability. ;ven if your customary approach still hols promise for maintaining your present level of performance an growth curve, it may not help if you want to hit far higher achievement levels. *n if you continue to rely on those ol routines, maybe even leaning on them most when your performance flattens out or sags, you create a trap for yourself. There is a certain irony here. 5our historically most epenable behaviors can become the ma$or obstacles to future success. It’s possible for them to cripple your progress. They may stan as personal bounary lines that limit what you can accomplish with your life. There is, however another course of action. It is the way of the quantum leap. you 2 . The following chapters e7plain the peculiar strategy that is involve.
&f you want to accelerate your rate of achievement rapidly! you must search out and vigorously employ new behaviors.
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Quit trying harder. !uantum leaps cannot be achieve through incremental steps or through more of the same./ 5ou’ve got to shift gears. 5ou have to follow new patterns of thought an action. The rules of what works an what oesn’t always change when you are trying to make a move from normal performance to you 2 . 1top an think about it. -ere’s the way it goes— more of the same/ usually $ust gives you more of the same. 4f course, if that’s mainly what you’re after, fine. Try a little harer an get a little bigger payoff. Try a lot harer an you can e7pect a lot better results. 0ight 1ooner or later you’re going to reach the point where you can’t try any harer. It may be that your spirit flags, or that your physical an mental resources are stretche to the limit. *n often, well before you come to that set of circumstances, you reach the point of iminishing returns—trying harer an harer starts proucing less an less. 1ometimes, in fact, intensifying your efforts prouces nothing e7cept bigger problems. *s a case in point, go back to the story of the fly. That little insect coul have turne away from the winow <=> egrees an followe the path of least resistance as it flew to the open oor. * quantum leap to freeom. Ten secons of effortless flight woul
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have prouce total success, while hours of frustration an panic spent beating its wings against the glass were estine to en fruitlessly in eath on the usty winowsill. )ow this is not the argument against self&iscipline or persistence. Those are true virtues. 4ver a lifetime they can make a powerful contribution to success an achievement. They are funamental to the evelopment of your talents. It’s e7tremely important to apply yourself iligently, an sometimes staying power/ is what elivers a big win. 'ut orinarily you will fin that trying harer prouces only incremental gains, not quantum leaps. *lso keep in min that trying harer ?even a lot harer@ sometimes offers little more than a straight path to burnout. *ttempting to succee through more of the same,/ being resolute an relying on committe effort, can blin you to better pathways. If you want to make a quantum leap, quit thinking about trying harer. More effort isn’t the answer.
"'ore of the same% usually $ust gives you more of the same.
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&gnore conventional ways. 3et ruthless about trying something ifferent. 4rinarily we achieve conventional growth because we think along conventional lines. +e e7perience reasonable performance gains because we rely on reasonable approaches. +e fin ways to make moest improvements in our level of success because we go looking for nothing more. !uantum leaps require you to abanon the status quo. Instea of once again trying what you have always one, maybe with even more intensity an etermination, ignore the usual. you 2 requires abrupt change in behavior.
"ook for a parao7ical move. #or e7ample, consier reversing your fiel. Try being illogical. 0icochet. If you’re pushing against the wall, open a oor an walk through. If you’re pushing against the river, try going with the flow. :se finesse instea of effort. 5ou must o something new9 The tenency, when you stall out or begin to level off in your performance, is to go back to the basics an o what you o best./ 'ut oing what you o best can be the worst thing you coul o. It really oesn’t matter how well you can o something if it’s the wrong thing to o. #aith in the familiar/ sets the trap. *n you spring it when you reinvest yourself in what logically seems
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like it woul work because it usually worke in the past. To make a quantum leap, you’ve got to break out of the rut where you’ve been running. 1econ&guess your routines. 4vercome the aiction to your ol methoologies. 1et a new pattern. If the things you’re oing have quit working, stop oing them. #ocus on what works. If you’ll $ust quit what you’ve been oing, instea of oggely oing it harer, you at least create an opportunity—some space/—to o something else. !uantum leaps come when you seek the elegant solution. 1o look for an approach characteri(e by simplicity, precision, efficiency, neatness. It won’t be as comple7 or time consuming as your present struggle. 4verall, it will be less emaning of your energies an emotions. *n it probably will not be familiar to you. you 2 calls for a fresh perspective, a eft move, a path of less resistance. There is a way you can o more with less.
(icochet. &f you’re Trying to climb over the wall! open a door and wal) through. &f you’re pushing against the river! try going with the flow.
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Thin) beyond what common sense would allow. Most of us can be foun flying too close to the groun. Too often we on’t give ourselves permission to soar. It’s time to start focusing on possibilities, rather than on limits or obstacles. Making a quantum leap means moving outsie your mental bounaries. If you will rethink how you’re thinking, you can multiply your performance potential. 5ou must let your esires guie you, instea of allowing yourself to be bo7e in by perceive constraints. 1eeking the quantum leap means violating the bounary of the probable. It means achieving well beyon the obvious. 1o on’t limit your esires to what you think you can have/8start going after what you want./ This means you must give yourself permission to ream, to risk. 5ou must set yourself free. * ten or twenty percent improvement isn’t the iea at all. That woul represent only incremental gains. That might be an impressive performance in some situations, like if there were unusual obstacles or a very challenging set of circumstances. 'ut while such a goal might be challenging, it woul not represent a quantum leap. Instea of an aitional ten percent or so,/ a quantum leap prouces a ramatic an multiple gain, an e7ponential increase. !uantum leaps are by efinition rather astouning, certainly unconventional.
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6on’t get the iea that anything you can think of is possible. 'ut in some areas of your life what lies within your reach is enough to stagger the min. 5ou can ouble your level of success. Triple it. #ar beyon that, you can leverage up your performance to the secon or thir or fourth power8or beyon. True, there are limits, but you on’t nee to worry about them. 5our real limits are far beyon your artificial mental bounaries. The real limits won’t bo7 you in, but the false one you’re carrying aroun in your min are a self&impose prison. 1o how o you break out of this $ail Through surrener. 5ou have to give up some of your ol beliefs an sacrifice some of those sensible/ thinking patterns. 1o&calle common sense can be a curse that puts a ceiling on how far you reach or how high you fly. you 2 , the quantum leap strategy, is bases on uncommon sense.
A ten or twenty percent improvement isn’t the idea at all. that would represent only incremental gains.
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Suspend disbelief. *ct as if your success is certain. Instea of holing back because you on’t have har proof that you can make a quantum leap, see if you en up with evience proving you can#t . %ust make the $ump—act as if your success is guarantee— an then see which set of ieas shoul you believe in. 5our minset for the moment may be flawe by oubt an skepticism. The iea of making a quantum leap in your performance, $umping from your present level of achievement to one several stages higher in one bol stroke, is an alien iea. 5ou haven’t been traine to think that way. 5ou may have efinite reservations about the possibility that you can make such e7ponential improvement at all, particularly with less effort an in an abbreviate time frame. The e7perts generally agree, though, that people typically use only about ten percent of their true potential. If we accept that argument, an even if there were no other resources outsie yourself that you coul bring to bear on the situation, you still coul o ten times as well as you’ve been oing. 5our skepticism, which you presume is base on rational thinking an on ob$ective assessment of factual ata about yourself, is roote in mental $unk. 5our oubts are not the prouct of accurate thinking, but habitual thinking. 5ears ago you accepte flawe conclusions as correct, began to live your life as if those warpe ieas about your potential were true, an cease the bol e7periment in living that brought you many breakthrough behaviors as a chil. )ow it’s
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time for you to fin that faith you ha in yourself before. If you want to be skeptical of some ieas that truly eserve to be calle in question, challenge the thoughts an beliefs that have been argue against your taking a quantum leap. Put those ol inhibiting ieas to the test by going for it with everything you’ve got. #or right now $ust suspen isbelief. 5ou on’t have to be convince that you can succee in making a quantum leap, but on’t keep on believing those ol ieas you’ve been carrying aroun about your personal limits. If it will make it easier, hol off for a while on believing anything. %ust act like you have complete faith. Merely o what you’ o if you knew you were going to succee. 'ehave like you have that total conviction. 6oubt is what oes the most amage. 1o on’t give it any mental space. Procee bolly, as if it is completely inconceivable that you will e7perience anything other than a successful quantum leap. If you must oubt something, oubt your limits.
&f you must doubt something! doubt your limits.
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*ocus on ends rather than means. 5ou on’t have to know how you’re going to get there, but you nee to know where you want to go. It is crucial to have a crystal clear picture of what you want to accomplish. 4perate with a sharply efine mental image of the outcome you seek. 0ivet your attention on the spot where you are to lan at the en of your quantum leap. Aisuali(e your arrival. +hen you o that, it’s like you magneti(e/ yourself to the ways an means involve in the methoology for getting there. The solutions begin to appear. *nswers come to you. If you start worrying about everything that will be involve in getting from here to there, you are boun to bog own in the questions about the methoology. People always get hung up on the how to/ aspects regaring a quantum leap. 1kip it9 The answers will come to you. *n when they o, you probably will fin them to be simple, streamline solutions. 1ee, a quantum leap is a move you#ve already prepared to make! $ou just haven#t done it yet! 5ou have the potential, the resources are available, the opportunity is there. +hat has been missing is your ecision to go for it. Maybe this will help you frame the situation a lot better. The quantum leap is something you’ve been keeping from happening. It’s not something you have
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to struggle to make happen. 5ou on’t really force it into e7istence8you $ust let it occur. The key is not to get in the way9 * quantum leap is the une7pecte that comes to you with suen grace. 5ou can open yourself to such a breakthrough, you can even invite it, but you can’t make it happen by struggling harer or insisting on first eveloping the perfect plan. you 2 is achieve through an intuitive, instinctive iscovery process base on a sense of irection an action. If you have the answers an structure an certainly up front, it’s not a quantum leap.
The formula oes not involve getting everything neatly organi(e an all the risks eliminate before you make the move. There’s an element of hip& shooting involve here. 6on’t count on having all the proceural issues for the $ourney buttone own before you begin the trip. 5ou must be willing to tolerate ambiguity, confusion, possibly even chaos for a while, shaping your game plan as you go. *llow some isorer in your life. If you get too concerne with the step&by&step plan of action to be followe, you’ll fin yourself brooing over the potential problems an roablocks that coul be encountere. #or now all you nee in an aiming point, an action.
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* quantum leap, by efinition, means moving into unchartere territory with no guie to follow. 5ou personally raw the map as you go. "ook at it this way—you’re not suppose to be concerne about what happens in the mile of a $ump8you’re suppose to be thinking about where you’re going to lan.
The )ey is not to get in the way+
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(ely on unseen forces. Improving your performance by an orer of magnitue— you 2 —can soun unrealistic if you think of it as something you have to o all by yourself. 'ut you on’t. #orget the iea that you shoul be able to see, tangibly an in full view, all the resources necessary to leverage your performance ramatically. There are resources you can access that cannot be seen, an they are far greater an more powerful than the resources you might reaily observe. *bsence of evience is not evience of their absence. Think of an iceberg, where you see only the tip of what’s really there. %ust as real, though out of sight, are invisible resources reay to make a profoun ifference in what you can achieve. *ll you have to o is open up an let them in. !uantum leaps are merely the process of using yourself an your worl ifferently, thus alloing other possibilities that e7ist to actually materiali(e. 5our illingness to make a quantum leap is the enabler. 5ou o not achieve your reams, your full potential, through your own singular struggle. *s mentione earlier, neither raw effort nor sheer willpower is the answer. Trying as har as you can/ will fall far short of taking you as far as you are capable of going. 5ou must take avantage of the support systems you can’t see.
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In a sense, making the quantum leap is like playing brige. 5ou on’t bi your han alone8your biing is also base on the power of your partner’s cars. 5ou on’t really get to see those cars until it’s time to play them, but you trust that they will bring valuable strength to your own han. The unseen forces are phantom powers that cannot be fully e7plaine. Maybe they strike you as rather mystical phenomena, but the truth is they will make ama(ing contributions to your efforts. These unseen forces seem to operate through your subconscious min, mental imagery, intuition an luck./ 5ou might be hit with a flash of inspiration uring a moment of solitue. * creative solution to a problem may come to you in a ream. * breakthrough iea can flash through your min while you’re visuali(ing your goal. 1omehow the resources you nee $ust seem to appear by coincience. Paint a vivi picture in your min for these forces to know precisely what you want. In one way or another, the unseen forces will a((le you with their impact. 2ount on it. !uantum leaps come easy when you plug into this remarkable power source. 5ou on’t have to unerstan it totally in orer to use it, $ust as you on’t have to comprehen the intricate physics of electrical energy to flip a lamp switch an floo the room with light. +hen you focus constantly on a clear picture of what you want to accomplish, an move towar it confiently, the unseen forces will rally to your support. These unknowns, these invisible resources,
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are the most powerful factors available to assist you in making the quantum leap to you 2 .
,ust as real! though out of sight! are invisible resources ready to ma)e a profound difference in what you can achieve.
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Choose a different set of ris)s. 3oing for the quantum leap feels chancy. The risks hit you as rather apparent, an may be quite threatening, but you must stack them up against the hien risks you accept when you ecie to live with the status quo. *sk yourself what you’re risking if you o not go for the quantum leap. The risk is that you won’t get what you really want out of life. 5ou’ve got to unerstan that you can never escape risk. It’s not something you can ecie to live with or without. 1omething is always at stake. 5ou can only ecie which risks to take. +hether you choose to go for the quantum leap, or to follow your usual routines, you are putting something on the line. 1o choose carefully, an on’t ki yourself with the iea that playing it safe/ by living with the status quo gives you the best os. That may be the surest way of losing. !uantum leaps o mean that to some egree you must move beyon the (one of familiarity, security, an comfort. 'ut you can make the $ump to you 2 without being reckless or impulsive. #rankly, making a quantum leap is not mere gambling. It’s not a crapshoot. 5ou simply move on an opportunity you’ve been ignoring. 5ou abanon your e7cuses. 5ou reframe the problem. 5ou take a completely different chance. * quantum leap is risking in a way that unmasks the truth, revealing how the
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only thing of significance that has been staning in the way is you. 0isk believing in yourself. 0isk acting on the assumption that you can succee in making a quantum leap. 4therwise, the risk is that you will settle for only a fraction of what life has to give you. This isn’t a case of taking a big chance, it’s a matter of giving yourself a big chance. The ma$or obstacle to overcoming the os is never challenging them. :ntil you test the limits regaring what you can achieve, you can’t truly know what your chances really are. *n the os change in your favor when you begin to challenge them. 'ut if you try to minimi(e your vulnerability by avoiing a new set of risks, you kill your chances for a quantum leap.
The biggest obstacle to overcoming the odds is never challenging them.
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Trust in the power of pursuit. 5ou’ve reame many reams that were yours for the taking. In fact, almost all of them were well within your reach. ;ven now, most of what you ream of can be yours. The simple secret is the seeking. Pursuit% 6reams begin to crystalli(e into reality when they are pursue. The worl behave ifferently when you actually take action to go after what you want. +hat you wish coul be/ starts becoming. The ream moves in your irection, begins to come to you, even as you reach for it. 2onsier this—the reams you have reali(e in life are those which you actively sought. That which you have achieve is what you ecie to go for in one way or another. 5ou can think positively/ all ay long, all year, but positive action is what counts. +ishing, longing, wanting, esiring8these are not the same as pursuing a ream. These are mental states, an can play an important role in the process of becoming you 2 . 'ut they are essentially passive. Pursuit, on the other han, is active. 0eaching for your ream is behaving—moving—an it shortens the istance between you an your esire ob$ective. Most people confuse wishing an wanting with pursuing. Their esire for a ream may be esperate an eep. 'ut when that esire fails to prouce, they conclue the ream cannot be theirs. *ctually, the only proof they have is that the longing is not enough.
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The ata at han merely prove that esire alone oes not—cannot—eliver. Pursuit is what makes the ifference. 0eaching for what you want alters the os immeiately, an rastically, of getting it. +hat you want/ becomes part of a ynamic e7change, with the worl an you in partnership, when you act an e7ten yourself towar the ream. you 2 is firmly base on the premise of pursuit. !uantum leaps require you to take the offensive. 5ou can’t achieve e7ponential gains in your success from a efensive posture. 5ou can’t remain in a passive stance an make a quantum $ump.
5ou must move on the ream. That means you must leave the cover, the safety, that goes with merely wishing for something. 5ou must place your trust in action. *sk8seek8knock8an the ream shall be yours.
'ost people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.
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See) failure. !uantum leaps eman a willingness to make mistakes. 5ou cannot hole up in the safe (one of behavior where you have beaten the os of failing. *n unwillingness to encounter efeat or run into the problems outlaws quantum leaps. :nless you allow yourself to make mistakes, to fail, you will never have the opportunity to test the limits of what you truly are capable of accomplishing. 5ou must reali(e that if you’re e7periencing no ifficulties, problems, or pain, you probably have aime too low. 5ou’ve levele off in your growth an achievement. 5ou probably are far from reaching your limits. 1o think of problems or pain or slippage in performance as a positive sign. * performance lag orinarily occurs at the very outset when you are making a quantum leap. It’s the pause uring which you poise for the $ump, the temporary loss of momentum that occurs in the process of changing gears./ 5ou eliberately estabili(e yourself when you break out of the habit patterns that represent the status quo. 5ou create some inner chaos for yourself. 1o be prepare for the possibility of confusion, an7iety an failure. That’s part of opening yourself up to a new methoology that has the potential to eliver e7ponential performance gains.
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1o often in life, it seems things first get worse on the way towar getting better. 'e prepare for that sort of evelopment. Problems belong in the process. They are part of the equation that prouces you 2 . They are not proof that your ambitions are futile or that you shoul give up. *s someone has sai, ;verything looks like a failure in the mile./ 5ou can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. -alfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murer in the operating room. If you sen a rocket towar the moon, about ninety percent of the time it’s off course—it fails/ its way to the moon by continually making mistakes an correcting them. *t the outset you may feel high because going for the quantum is heay stuff. 'ut then the har reality of problems/ may slap you in the face. Progress often masqueraes as trouble. It’s easy to lose faith, because other people may withraw their support an be critical of your efforts. That, plus your own an7ieties an uncertainties, can tempt you to turn on yourself. This is the critical point in the progress—on’t give up9 #ailure belongs here. It’s a sign of progress9 The stress will seuce you towar retreat to the safety/ of the status quo, the trap of the familiar. %ust remember thisB #ailure oes not mean you’re efeate. *ctually, the struggle gives you strength. It’s like tempering the steel, or the soreness involve in
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eveloping muscle. The ifficulties are $ust evience that you’re learning an progressing. 1o go looking for failure8an then use it. 6on’t interpret problems or breakowns as proof that you shoul quit, but instea take them as evience if your growth an improvement. #ailure is a resource. It helps you fin the ege of your capacities.
*ailure is a resource. &t helps you find the edge of your capacities.
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-et uncomfortable. !uantum leaps $erk you out of your comfort (one. Prepare yourself for a pretty wil rie. 5ou’re going to cover some unfamiliar terrain an encounter obstacles you’ve never face before. It can feel like the safety chain linking you with behavior patterns that worke in the past is being stretche to the limit. *t times you may woner if the situation is about to spin out of control. The normal reaction is to want to hol on tightly. 'ut you’re going to have to learn to let go. you 2 is achieve through release. 1o turn loose if you want to $ump. 6on’t be surprise if you grow uneasy—that’s a preictable part of the process. +hen you take the quantum leap you ride the situation, but you on’t really control it all that much. In fact, the only way you control it is by ?<@ knowing where you’re going, ?C@ continuing the pursuit, an ?D@ learning from your mistakes. * quantum leap is an act of faith, e7hilarating an possibly scary at the same time. 5ou have to give up a large egree of security an safety, plow through greater amounts of ambiguity an confusion an uncertainty, wrestle with a totally new set of problems, invite failure, an possibly conten with criticism from other people who have been part of your support group in the past. Make you uncomfortable
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That’s a goo sign. If you’re e7periencing no an7iety or iscomfort, the risk you’re taking probably isn’t worthy of you. The only risks that aren’t a little scary are the ones you’ve outgrown. * high comfort level provies soli evience that you’re playing it safe,/ not growing, not really testing your limits at all, an not in the process of a quantum leap. 5ou might be making graual progress—that’s possible—but you’re not going for a breakthrough. you 2 carries you beyon your commonplace, everyay habits an calls for little more nerve. 1o $ust go into this e7pecting a touch of an7iety. :neasiness is a preictable psychological reaction when a quantum leap is uner way.
It has been sai that if you will o the thing you fear, eath of fear is certain. 2ourage is not the absence of fear an an7iety, it’s proceeing in spite of those feelings. 1o press on.
neasiness is a predictable psychological reaction when a /uantum leap is under way.
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0pen your gifts. 5ou have many gifts that you’ve never opene. These are gifts of talent, ability, an reach/ that are yours for the taking. The people we call gifte are ifferent from the crow in one very special way. They accepte their gifts. They let it happen./ The high achievers, the persons you amire, are those iniviuals who opene their gifts. These winners have more gifts because they claime them, took them out of the wrapping, an use them. )ow it’s time for you to o something with your gifts. 2laim them, an you create them. 0each for them, an they materiali(e. :se them, an they grow to serve you still better. If you look at those particular skills you have evelope over the years, the talents that you have e7hibite, you will fin they are the gifts you opene an en$oye. 'ut how many others are there within your reach #or every gift you’ve opene over the years, there are hunres that you’ve never unwrappe an taken out of the package. This unuse potential hies there, $ust waiting to play a role in your quantum leap. +hen you make a quantum leap you fin out many new things about yourself. you 2 is a fascinating e7perience in self&iscovery. * transformation occurs, a metamorphosis.
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Think of a stripe caterpillar humbly crawling along the stem of a milkwee plant a few inches from Mother ;arth, changing into a strikingly beautiful monarch butterfly that soars high in the air an bravely $ourneys thousans of miles in its yearly pilgrimage. To become a monarch, to free those shining auburn wings, to fly high an free, the creature must break out of the cocoon of safety an open its gifts. 4pen some more of yours. #in your wings.
&f you loo) at those particular s)ills you have developed over the years! the talents that you have e#hibited! you will find they are the gifts you opened and en$oyed.
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*all in love. !uantum leaps won’t happen if you’re living life with a lukewarm heart. Passion is a very important part of the process. It fires the soul an fills the spirit, energi(ing your heart an min for the quantum leap to a higher plane of performance. Passion also keeps you going when you’re hit with problems an uncertainty. 'ut passion itself must be fuele, an you fee that flame with visions of a ream that is ramatic. The emotional intensity insie must burn hot enough to protect you against the chilling effects of oubt, uncertainty, criticism, an failure. 4nly eep esire can generate such heat. #or you to care this intensely, of course, there must be something worth caring about—something remarkable, special, an precious enough to light the fire in your heart. This means you must loosen the limits on your thinking, an give yourself permission to pursue what you want most. The climate is right for a quantum leap only when you are passionately rawn to a particular goal. 1o let your eepest esires irect your aim. 1et your sights far above the reasonable/ target. The power of purpose is profoun only if you have a esire that stirs the heart. The inner rive must be strong enough to carry you past the point of wishful thinking. The ream must
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consume you, control you, rive you to action, isallowing halfhearte effort in the pursuit. !uantum leaps are an act of love, a passionate statement of how you care for the thing you seek. 4nly an emotional move hols the power to carry you the istance from you to you 2 . "et the heart take charge of your boy. If you have a magnificent obsession,/ you are poise for a quantum leap.
There must be something worth caring about1 something remar)able! special! and precious enough to light the fire in your heart.
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'a)e your move before you’re ready. 6on’t bog own in getting prepare for this. +hatever else you nee will come as you go. * person coul make a career out of laying the grounwork to o something really big. Please unerstan—you on’t prepare/ for a quantum leap. 5ou make it, an then fine tune your approach. 5ou go for it, instea of forever getting reay so you will be sure to get in right. Eero efects/ is a hostile concept in the pursuit of you 2 . #irst you act, then you frame out the etails of your strategy. Move on your ream8 start 8an let what happens help you evelop a coherent game plan. Mobility is the crucial element. 1trategy formulation then evolves naturally out of your iscovery process. 5ou’ll iscover, once unerway, that you know more than you know you know. %ust trust your instincts. 4nce again, a quantum leap is something you are already prepared to do% It’s not some absur, wil&eye scheme that calls for a fantastic stroke of luck $ust to have an outsie chance of working. It’s not an e7ample of your reach e7ceeing your grasp. *n it’s most efinitely not a matter of going for some gran goal that calls for painstaking preparation. * quantum leap is a move that is yours for the taking. 0ight now. It represents a giant step you can make merely by eciing to an opening yourself up to the resources presently available to serve you.
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3etting reay/ is, quite frankly, a stalling tactic, an act of an7iety, a con game you’re working on yourself. 5ou are alreay positione to escape to a higher plane of performance. If you wait until you can get it perfect, you will never get it at all. The time to start is now. you 2 can only occur in the present.
You’ll discover! once underway! that you )now more than you )now you )now.
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oo) inside for opportunity. ;verything else that’s neee, right now, comes from insie of you. The opportunity, the timing, the power to perform—these are in you, not in the situation. The formula for you 2 , the strategy for making the quantum leap, has been covere here. 5ou have those answers. The answers to questions that remain must come from the voice within. )ow you must listen to yourself. Those are the souns no one else can hear. 5our reams, your esires, the thoughts that burn the hottest in your min, they carry the messages that help you fin your own magnetic north./ They point the way towar the breakthrough to you 2 . "ook insie at what pulls at your consciousness, for there you’ll fin irection. ;verything else is in position. +aiting for you. %ust o it. Make the quantum leap9
,ust do it. 'a)e the /uantum leap+
