Think Beyond What Common Sense Would Allow

Most of us 'fly' too close to the ground because too often we don't give ourselves permission to soar. 

Start focusing on possibilities, rather than limits or obstacles.  Making a 'quantum leap' means moving outside your mental boundaries.  If you rethink how you're thinking, you can multiply your performance potential.  You must let your desires guide you, instead of allowing yourself to be boxed in by perceived constraints.

Seeking a 'quantum leap' means going beyond the boundary of the probable.  It means achieving well beyond the obvious.  So don't limit your career desires to what you think you can 'have'....start going after what you 'want'.  This means you must give yourself permission to dream, to risk.  You must set yourself free.

A ten or twenty percent improvement isn't the idea--that would represent only incremental gains.  That might be an impressive performance in some situations,--if there were unusual obstacles or a very difficult set of circumstances.  But while such a goal might be challenging, it would not represent a quantum leap.  Instead of an additional 10 percent or so, a quantum leap produces a dramatic and multiplied gain, an exponential increase.  Quantum leaps are by definition rather astounding and unconvential.

True, there are limits, but you don't need to worry about them.  Your real limits are far beyond your artificial mental boundaries.  The real limits won't box you in, but the false ones you're carrying around in your mind are a self-imposed prison.

So how do you break out of that prison?  Through surrender.

You have to give up some of your old beliefs and sacrifice some of those 'sensible' thinking patterns.  So-called common sense can be a curse that puts a ceiling on how far you reach or how high you fly.
 
A quantum leap strategy is based upon Uncommon Sense.