Ignore Convention!!

Ignore Conventional Approaches

Get passionate about trying something different!

Ordinarily we achieve conventional growth because we think along conventional lines.  We experience reasonable performance gains because we rely on reasonable approaches.  We find ways to make modest improvements in our level of success because we go looking for nothing more.

Last time we talked about making a Quantum Leap—Quantum leaps require you to abandon the status quo.  Instead of once again trying what you have always done, maybe with even more intensity and determination, ignore the usual.

Quantum leaps require an abrupt change in behavior.  You must do something new!

The tendency, when you stall out or begin to level off in your performance, is to go back to the basics and ‘do what you do best.’  But doing what you do best can also be the worst thing you can do.  It really doesn’t matter how well you can do something if it’s the wrong thing to do.

To make a quantum leap, you’ve got to break out of the rut you’ve been running in.  Second-guess your own routines.  Overcome the addiction to your old methodologies.  Set a new pattern.

Quantum leaps come when you seek the elegant solution.  So look for an approach characterized by simplicity, precision, efficiency, neatness.  It won’t be as complex or time-consuming as your present struggle.  Overall, it will be less demanding of your energies and emotions.  And it probably will not be familiar to you!

Quantum leaps call for a fresh perspective, a bold move, a path of less resistance.  There is a way you can do more with less (struggle).