Take A Quantum Leap

The first thing you must do in order to make a massive leapthis year is....

"Change your personal rules for success."

Leveraging up your personal effectiveness by an order of magnitude...making a quantum leap...is not a commonplace idea. You should not be surprised to hear that unconventional success calls for unconventional approaches. Quantum leaps require paradoxical behavior. Unusual moves. Actions that on the surface often seem to contradict common sense.

As human beings, thought, we ordinarily go with the obvious. We fall into the habit of relying on behaviors that seem to have worked best for us over the years. When we take an approach that seems to be very serviceable, and which enables us to perform well and succeed, we become very attached to it. We don't readily relinquish that habit pattern. In fact, there's a tendency to follow our favorite approach more and more often, such that we get better and better at handling things that particular way.

This adroitness with a certain approach results in our overdependence on the strategies and tactics it involves. We resist new maneuvers because they make us feel clumsy, awkward, and more at risk.

But if you want to accelerate your rate of achievement rapidly, you must search out and vigorously employ new behaviors. New attitudes. You must be willing to break out of your routines in order to make the quantum leap.

The things that worked for you in the past very likely could, sooner or later, lose their serviceability. Even if your customary approach still holds promise for maintaining your present level of performance and growth curve, it may not help much if you want to hit far higher achievement levels. And even learning on them most when your performance flattens out or sags, you create a trap for yourself.

There is a certain irony here. Your historically most dependable behaviors can become the major obstacles to future success. It's possible for them to cripple your progress. They may stand as personal boundary 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. Quantum leaps jerk you out of your comfort zone. Prepare yourself for a pretty wild ride. You're going to cover some unfamiliar terrain and encounter obstacles you've never faced before. It can feel like the safety chain linking you with behavior patterns that worked in the past is being stretched to the limit. At times you may wonder if the situation is about to spin out of control.

The normal reaction is to hold on tightly. But you're going to have to learn to let go. A quantum leap is achieved through release.

So turn loose if you want to jump.

Don't be surprised if you grow uneasy, that's a predictable part of the process. When you take the quantum leap you ride the situation, but you don't really control it all that much. In fact, the only way you control it is by (1)knowing where you are going, (2) continuing the pursuit, and (3) learning from your mistakes.

A quantum leap is an act of faith, exhilarating and possibly scary at the same time. You have to give up a large degree of security and safety, plow through greater amounts of ambiguity and confusion and uncertainty, wrestle with a totally new set of problems, invite failure, and possibly contend with criticism from other people who have been part of your support group in the past.

Make you uncomfortable?

That's a good sign.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, 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. A high comfort level provides solid evidence that you're playing it safe, not growing, not really testing your limits at all, and not in the process of a quantum leap.

You might be making gradual progress that's possible but you're not going for a breakthrough.

A quantum leap carries you beyond your commonplace, everyday habits and calls for a little more nerve. So just go into this expecting a touch of anxiety. Uneasiness is a predictable psychological reaction when a quantum leap is under way.

It has been said that if you do the thing you fear, death of the fear is certain. Courage is not the absence of fear and anxiety, it's proceeding in spite of those feelings.

If you are ready to make a quantum leap in your life right now send me an e-mail at marcusruiz@4truefreedom.com or call me directly and tell me you would like to join me in a conversation about your possibilities.

Make your leap!

Marcus Ruiz
480-277-2277
http://www.4truefreedom.com