(from You2 by Price Pritchett)
Focus on the ends rather than the means. Before you go running off to what you think are greener pastures, let’s make sure that your own is not just as green or perhaps even greener. While you’re looking at other pastures, other people are looking at yours! Someone has said, “If the other pasture looks greener, maybe it’s because it’s getting better care.”
If you will only have the wisdom and patience to intelligently and effectively explore the work in which you’re now engaged, you’ll usually find that it contains the riches you seek in all areas of your life.
You don’t have to know HOW you’ll get there, but you need to know WHERE you want to go.
It is crucial to have a crystal clear picture of what you want to accomplish. Operate with a sharply defined mental image of the outcome you seek. Rivet your attention on that spot where you are to land at the end of your quantum leap. Visualize your arrival. When you do that, it’s like you “magnetize” yourself to the ways and means involved in the methodology for getting there. The solutions begin to appear. Answers come to you.
If you start worrying about everything that will be involved in getting from here to there, you are bound to bog down in the questions about methodology. People always get hung up on the “how to” aspects regarding a quantum leap.
THE KEY IS NOT TO GET IN THE WAY!
Skip it! The answers will come to you. And when they do, you probably will find them to be simple, streamlined solutions.
See, a quantum leap is a move you’re already prepared to make. You just haven’t done it yet . You have the potential, the resources are available, and the opportunity is there. What has been missing is your decision 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 to struggle to make happen. You don’t really force it into existence… you just let it occur. The key is not to get in the way!
A quantum leap is the unexpected that comes to you with sudden grace. You can open yourself to such a breakthrough, you can even invite it, but you can’t make it happen by struggling harder or insisting on first developing the perfect plan.
You can harvest your “Acres of Diamonds” through an intuitive, instinctive discovery process based on a sense of direction and pursuit. If you have the answers and structure and certainty up front, it’s not a quantum leap.
The formula does not involve getting everything neatly organized and all the risks eliminated before you make your move. There’s an element of hip-shooting involved here. Don’t count on having all the procedural issues for the journey buttoned down before you begin the trip.
You must be willing to tolerate ambiguity, confusion, and possibly even chaos for a while, shaping your game plan as you go. Allow some disorder in your life.
If you get too concerned with the step-by-step plan of action to be followed, you’ll find yourself brooding over the potential problems and roadblocks that could be encountered. For now, all you need is an aiming point… and action.
A quantum leap, by definition, means moving into uncharted territory with no guide to follow. You personally draw the map as you go.
Look at it this way – you’re not supposed to be concerned about what happens in the middle of a jump… you’re supposed to be thinking about where you’re going to land!
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