Price Pritchett - You 2: A High Velocity Formula for Multiplying Your Personal Effectiveness in Quantum Leaps

For my friend
you...

"If you do not expect it, you will not find the unexpected, for it is hard to find and difficult."
Heraclitus, 500 B.C.

I m sitting in a quiet room at the Millcroft Inn, a peaceful little place hidden back among the pine trees about an hour out of Toronto. Its just past noon, late July, and Im listening to the desperate sounds of a life-or-death struggle going on a few feet away.
Theres a small fly burning out the last of its short lifes energies in a futile attempt to fly through the glass of the windowpane. The whining wings tell the poignant story of the flys strategy try harder.
But its not working.
The frenzied effort offers no hope for survival. Ironically, the struggle is part of the trap. 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.
This fly is doomed. It will die there on the windowsill.
Across the room, ten steps away, the door is open. Ten seconds of flying time and this small creature could reach the outside world it seeks. With only a fraction of the effort now being wasted, it could be free of this self-imposed trap. The breakthrough possibility is there. It would be so easy.
Why doesnt the fly try another approach, something dramatically different? How did it get so locked in on the idea that this particular route, and determined effort, offer the most promise for success? What logic is there in continuing, until death, to seek a breakthrough with more of the same?
No doubt this approach makes sense to the fly. Regrettably, its an idea that will kill.
Trying harder isnt necessarily the solution to achieving more. It may not offer any real promise for getting what you want out of life. Sometimes, in fact, its a big part of the problem.
If you stake your hopes for a breakthrough on trying harder than ever, you may kill your chances for success.

Price Pritchett

A re you ready for this?

Right now, in this moment, you are capable of exponential improvement in your performance. You can multiply your personal effectiveness, hit new highs, and shatter your old achievement records. The results you can have will be hard for you to imagine.
You can become you squared .
You dont have to settle for things as they are now. That can change. Dramatically. If youre ready, life is prepared to give you a breakthrough experience. You can jump to a higher orbit of achievement... live the dream... enjoy a completely different plane of success.
Also, you dont have to be content with improving things incrementally or gradually. Just as your level of performance can improve drastically, so can your rate of accomplishment. Furthermore, the you formula requires far less effort than youve given in the past.
You havent been reaching your full potential. So far, you havent even come close. No matter how you wish to measure success, regardless of how you define achievement, you have barely scratched the surface of what you personally can accomplish.
But maybe the time has come to change all that.

Maybe youre ready to make a quantum leap .

Q uantum leap is a term taken from the vocabulary of quantum physics, the science behind such technological breakthroughs as lasers, computers, space communication, and nuclear energy. Quantum physics is described as the most powerful science ever conceived by human beings. It requires a major rethinking of such concepts as time and space and how human consciousness operates.
Quantum physics also has staggering implications regarding you, your potential, and the power of your mind. 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.
Fred Alan Wolf, in his award-winning book titled Taking the Quantum Leap , describes the term as:

... 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 uncharted territory with no guide to follow.

Physicists studying quantum mechanics note that particles make these jumps without apparent effort and without covering all the bases between the starting and ending points.
Whats going on here? How does this happen? And is it possible for you as an individual to do something very similar in your personal performance?

M ost people operate with a mindset 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 next. Then, the thinking goes, from that stage we can begin working toward graduating to still the next higher level in the sequence. Gradual progress.

This is an unfortunate misconception, and its clearly reflected in the way people function. They go about, day to day, striving to make incremental gains in their performance. Thats pretty routine. Thats the pathway of conventional growth.
But your life simply does not always have to operate that way.
Advancing at a measured pacestep by step from where you are to a little bit betterordinarily feels easier, more natural, and even safer. But in certain areas of your life you can just as easily think in terms of skipping levels. You can move from your present level of achievement to one that is several stages higherdirectly.
You make the quantum leap. You become you . Instead of accepting present circumstances or being content with gradual improvement, you go for a breakthrough.
you implies an explosive jump in your personal performance that puts you far beyond the next logical step. Its a formula for stunning advances in achievement and the realization of your dreams. The concept is one of exponential gains rather than incremental progress. You might compare it to multiplying instead of addingit means a geometric progression in your effectiveness.

Thats exciting as well as provocative, but it gets even better. Remember, quantum leaps can come without apparent effort . These are high-velocity moves that carry you to dramatically higher performance levels without a time-consuming struggle.
Quantum leaps seem to violate common sense... utterly! The idea of moving to a higher orbit, and skipping several rungs on the achievement ladder in the process, strikes people as far-fetched, maybe even outrageous.
After the fact, quantum leaps may be viewed as practical, sensible, even obvious moves, but they typically do not come to you as the obvious moves at the moment. Usually its in retrospect that you perceive their hidden logic and elegance. Invariably, quantum leaps are not complex or intricate maneuvers. They tend to be simple, energy efficient, and time-saving.
you , the quantum leap strategy, can deliver those special dreams and ambitions that you instinctively feel should be yours. But the breakthrough demands a radical departure from some of your habits.