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I’ve been sharing with you some of the wisdom from Price Pritchett’s book, You². Last time, I said that when you want to make a quantum leap, you have to quit trying harder.

More effort is not the answer.

If you want to completely change your outcome, you have to change your approach to the outcome. You have to shift gears, follow new patterns of thought and action.

Pritchett offers several strategies to help you make your own quantum leap. Here are three:

1. Ignore Conventional Approaches

Pritchett writes that we achieve conventional growth because we think along conventional lines. We make modest improvements because we’re not looking for anything more than that.

Quantum leaps require you to abandon the status quo, to ignore the usual.

I’ll be the first to admit that bucking convention is easier said than done. Unconventional approaches are going to bring to the surface any emotional issues or pain you may have around being unusual.

For example, you may fear being embarrassed or being considered “weird.” Perhaps, in addition, “big shots” were ridiculed in your family and neighborhood, so you fear losing love if you excel.

To counteract those fears, you have to recognize them when they come up for you, and then move through them. Take the action regardless of the fear. After you do that a couple of times, you’ll realize that your subconscious can scare you, but it doesn’t have to stop you.

You also have to become more solid in who you are. That way, your results won’t derail you either. If you fail, it’s okay. You’re not devastated by the failure because it doesn’t define you. And if you succeed, that’s okay too.

2. Get Ruthless About Doing Something Different

Pritchett writes that the you-squared approach requires an abrupt change in behavior. You have to get ruthless about trying something different. Look for a paradoxical move. Be illogical. Use finesse instead of effort.

For example, unlike the fly I told you about, if you’re banging your head against the glass, stop and look for an open door. If you’re pushing against the river, try going with the flow.

It’s crucial that you do something new. Faith in the familiar blinds you to better pathways. You may not know what that better pathway is yet, but as long as you rely upon what you’ve always done, you’re not going to find it.

However, if you break out of your rut, second-guess your routines, overcome the reliance upon your old methodologies, you will open yourself up to receive new, inspired ideas. And with those new ideas and actions can come the solution for your quantum leap.

3. Seek the Elegant Solution

While you’re experimenting, keep in mind that you’re seeking an elegant solution, an approach that is simple, precise, efficient and neat, less demanding of your energies and emotions. As Pritchett writes, it will be a deft move or a path of less resistance.

You really can accomplish more by doing less. But in order to do that, you have to think beyond what common sense would allow.

Do you recall my exercise from last time? I wanted you to ask yourself how you could accomplish ten times more in your business by doing less. What ideas did you come up with? Did you get discouraged because they seemed unrealistic? Or, did you trust, like I said, that if you have the idea, the way to do it will show up as well?

Go find your list and keep those ideas alive. Allow brilliance to strike. It may not come in the way that you expect, but it will come.

Solutions exist all around you. Open up your mind, experiment in your actions and let yourself leap.

© Copyright 2010 – David Neagle’s Life Is Now Inc., All Rights Reserved Worldwide.

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In You², Price Pritchett tells the story of a fly’s frenzied attempt to leave a room, “burning out the last of its short life’s energies in a futile attempt to fly through the glass of a window pane.”

The fly’s strategy is to try harder, but it’s not working. And if the fly keeps at it, as it surely will, it will not survive.

“Ironically, the struggle is part of a trap,” Pritchett writes. “It is impossible for the fly to try hard enough to succeed at breaking through the glass. Nevertheless, this little insect has staked its life on reaching its goal through raw effort and determination.”

Sound familiar? I bet it does. If you’re like most people, when your business starts to slip or when you wish to become more prosperous, you work harder, believing that greater effort is the surest path to success.

No amount of effort will help the fly, however, which will die on the windowsill, while only steps away, a door stands open.

With only 10 seconds of flying ~ a fraction of the effort the fly is now wasting ~ the insect could be free. Its breakthrough possibility is right there.

Quit Trying Harder
Pritchett goes on to write that trying harder isn’t necessarily the solution to achieving more, and sometimes, like with the fly, it can be your doom.

Here’s why: Sooner or later, you're going to reach a point where you cannot try any harder. It may be that your spirit flags or your physical and mental resources are stretched to the limit. But often, well before that, you reach the point of diminishing returns.

Trying harder and harder starts producing less and less. In fact, sometimes intensifying your efforts produces nothing except bigger problems and 10 times more work. If you’re seeking a quantum leap, you’re not looking for 10 times more work. You’re looking for bigger gains. As I’ve said before, you need to work smarter, not harder.

And if you want to change your outcome, you have to change your approach to the outcome. You have to follow new patterns of thought and action.

That fly could have turned away from the window and followed the path of least resistance to the open door. Ten seconds of effortless flight would have produced total success. That’s a quantum leap to freedom.

An Exercise for Your Own Leap
I want you to start looking into your own business to find your quantum leap to freedom. Where have you been beating your wings against the glass? And where is that open door? The following exercise can help you discover both and get you thinking ~ and acting ~ in new ways.

Look into your business and everything that you’re doing and ask yourself, “How can I accomplish 10 times more and do less?” I’m serious. Ten times more. Do the exercise and see what happens.

When you come up with your ideas ~ and I want you to stay with this exercise until you come up with at least one idea ~ don’t get stuck on precisely how you’re going to put the ideas into place. In my business, we don’t worry about that. We know that once the idea shows up, the way to do it has to show up as well. And the result is that we accomplish in hours, days or weeks what takes others years to do.

By the way, these exercises I’ve been giving you and this whole You² process is working on you. You may not yet realize the change that is occurring within your subconscious, but it is happening.

So stay engaged with me and take a good look at your business. See what could be done differently than it’s ever been done before.

© Copyright 2010 – David Neagle’s Life Is Now Inc., All Rights Reserved Worldwide.

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Over the next couple of months, I’m going to share with you some lessons from You², by Price Pritchett. Those lessons, based in universal truths, can teach you how to make a quantum leap in your business.

Let me start by saying this: quantum leaps are possible; they happen all the time.

My business makes a quantum leap every year. I go into every new year, thinking, “We are going to make a quantum leap this year.”

From that foundational standpoint, the ideas come. You have to be open to new ideas.

Some of you may be struggling just to fill a room or make the sales that you made in the past, so the idea of a quantum leap sounds implausible. But listen: it isn’t an either/or proposition. Quantum leaps require new strategies and new thinking, but so do these times. If you have to change anyway ~ and you do ~ why not take the opportunity to step up to something bigger?

The Physics of Success

The term “quantum leap” is taken from quantum physics. The most powerful science ever conceived, quantum physics requires a major rethinking of such concepts as time and space and how human consciousness operates.

In order to make a quantum leap, you have to remove from your thinking the idea of time and space.

That’s not easy, because time and space is such a fundamental part of our thinking processes that we don’t even realize it. We use it to measure everything that we do.

Physicists face a similar problem. They can’t measure an atomic particle, such as the electron, unless they focus on it. The particle only exists in a specific location when it’s focused upon. Where is it when it’s not being measured? It exists in a sea of potential, simultaneously everywhere and nowhere.

To comprehend that, consider your peripheral vision. If you focus on one spot, say your computer screen, you can still see other things in your office. They’re blurry, but you can see them.

Not so with the atomic particle, which seems to disappear.

Your quantum leap results operate the same way. You can only grasp them when they’re focused upon. Yet, they still exist in that sea of potential, everywhere and nowhere.

To consider those results, like the physicist, you have to give up the old forms of measurement, be willing to think in new ways.

Here’s the promise, if you’re ready for it.

Right now, in this moment, you can multiply your personal effectiveness and shatter old achievement records.

So far, you haven’t come close to reaching your full potential. No matter how you measure success or define achievement, you have barely scratched the surface of what you can accomplish.

Yet, life is prepared to give you a breakthrough experience. You can live the dream and enjoy a completely different plane of success.

Try this: on a piece of paper write down your financial achievement last year.

Increasing that number by 1 or 2 percent is not a quantum leap. What if you increased it 500 percent?

Are you ready for that?

Are you ready to be the person you are meant to be?

If so, start here: Picture, for a moment, your quantum leap results. Really grasp them with your mind. Then let yourself believe that, like atomic particles, even though you can’t yet measure those results, they exist in a sea of potential, waiting for you.

© Copyright 2009 – David Neagle’s Life Is Now Inc., All Rights Reserved Worldwide.

WANT TO USE THIS ARTICLE IN YOUR EZINE OR WEB SITE? You may, as long as you commit to leave all of the links active, do not edit the article in any way, and include the following byline: David Neagle, Million Dollar Income Acceleration Coach, mentors entrepreneurs to quantum leap their current businesses past the 7-Figure income level in just 12 months. David invites you to download—as his GIFT to you—his legendary “Art of Success” 4-hour audio program. This audio series is a tremendously compelling and comprehensive program that demonstrates—once and for all—that Success has nothing to do with “getting” or “achieving”, and everything to do with WHO we must BE to manifest our hearts’ true desires. For an additional bonus, Join our Text for Success mobile messaging program! Simply Text: success to the number: 85800