Christy Whitman - Quantum Success: 7 Essential Laws for a Thriving, Joyful, and Prosperous Relationship with Work and Money

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Whitman, Christy, author.

Title: Quantum success : 7 essential laws for a thriving, joyful, and prosperous relationship with work and money / Christy Whitman ; foreword by Lisa Nichols.

Description: New York : Atria/Enliven Books, 2018.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018022901 (print) | LCCN 2018024564 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501179020 (eBook) | ISBN 9781501179006 (hardback) | ISBN 9781501179013 (paperback)

Subjects: LCSH: Self-actualization (Psychology) | Success. | BISAC: SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Success. | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Motivational. | SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Happiness.

Classification: LCC BF637.S4 (ebook) | LCC BF637.S4 W4825 2018 (print) | DDC 158.1dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018022901

ISBN 978-1-5011-7900-6

ISBN 978-1-5011-7902-0 (ebook)

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To My Divine as my CEO: Thank you for guiding me toward my desires, in my business and in my life.

And to my family: Frederic, Alex, and Maxim. I deeply appreciate and love you.

Lisa Nichols

GROWING UP IN SOUTH CENTRAL Los Angeles, I faced the harsh reality of living paycheck to paycheck. And for the first twenty-eight years of my life, every action I took in relation to my career was simply to earn one more paycheck.

Getting a job was never difficult for me; Ive always been a strong communicator, and therefore a good interviewer. Keeping a job once I got it, however, was a different story. I was grateful for the money I earnedand in fact had chosen accounting because it was one of the more lucrative fields available to mebut the work was rote and lacked any sense of purpose or meaning. Over time, I even grew to resent it: Why should I spend my time balancing other peoples accounts when I barely had enough in my own to cover my monthly bills?

At twenty-nine, after getting fired from my fourth job in five years, I was sitting in the living room of my small apartment, halfheartedly scanning the classifieds while the TV droned on in the background. Id been out of work for three months, I was a week and a half late paying my portion of the rent, and my car had just been repossessed. Yet I was still having a hard time motivating myself into action. Id circled a handful of jobs that I knew I was qualified for, but every time I reached for the phone, I felt nauseated and unable to make the call. These were the days before Id learned to interpret the subtle messages from my intuition, and could only hear them when they became strong enough to hit me like a proverbial sledgehammer.

Stalling, I turned my attention to the TV, where a man was telling a story about walking home from work every night and passing an elderly couple seated on their front porch, their golden retriever lying in between their two rocking chairs. The first night as the man passed, he heard the dog let out a tiny yelp. The next night as he passed by, the dog again yelped, as if in pain. On the third night as the man approached the house, the dog let out what sounded like an agonized moan. Finally, the manperplexed by the situationstopped and addressed the couple. Im sorry to bother you, he said. But I pass by here each night on my walk home from work, and every night Ive seen your dog lying in that same spot, crying out in pain. Is there something the matter with him? The elderly woman replied, Well, you see, honey, the dog is lying on a nail. Still confused, the man asked, Well, if thats the case, why doesnt he just move? The woman sighed, still rocking back and forth in her chair, and said, It only hurts him enough to lie there and moan about it, not enough to get up and move someplace else.

Hearing this story, I realized that, just like that dog, I was stuck in a pattern of going from one unfulfilling job to the next, and while I often complained about the condition of my life, Id never realized that I had the ability to choose to do something different. Finally I had the courage to ask myself the question that Id long been avoiding. I went into the bathroom and looked at my reflection in the mirror as I silently asked myself, What do I really want to do with my life? To my surprise, the answers came effortlessly: I want to travel the world. I want to help other people. I want to wear a black business suit, and I want to carry a laptop computer.