Gary Ryan Blair of the 100 Day Challenge talks about making a quantum leap. He defines a quantum leap or leapfrogging as "An advance from one place, position or situation to another without progressing through all the stages inbetween." An example being going from a bank teller to a Vice President in one year.
He argues if you leverage the knowledge and experience of others and act as if success was assured you can leapfrog over all the intermediate steps that people normally have to take to get from one level of success or being to another much higher level.
As soon as I saw that I told my challenge buddy that if anyone in the world should be able to make a quantum leap it ought to be me. I am a self styled expert in personal development having read dozens of books, movies, audio messages, videos, etc. on the subject. My mind is literally stuffed full of wonderful advice that I generously share with my friends and on my site http://www.prestonspearls.com/. So that was my goal, to make a quantum leap and she was to hold me to it.
However, as one might imagine, as time progressed on, I did not have much to show for it despite working towards the majority of my goals on a daily basis. I began to wonder if it was possible, or at least possible for me. If it's possible at all is another question, as I must admit I've never heard of anyone doing such a thing.
Today though was a great day.
Two very significant events happened that have restored my enthusiasm and confidence in leapfrogging forward. The first was my book editor finished and handed in my completed book. She has been very encouraging and insightful. She has also blessedly ripped the crap out of my book. I mean that both figuratively and literally. It's painful to see big chucks of ones work scratched out but one flaw of all writers is that we tend to fall in love with our characters and settings and want to add too much about them. In other words, add more than is strictly necessary to move the story forward.
The second event was that my website http://www.prestonspearls.com/ has now officially started to be developed into a full blown website and not merely a blogspot blog. Articles and reviews will be broken out into areas of their own, apart from my blog, a forum will be added as well as some free downloadable content and more.
Apart from that this week I took a two day training course in stock market trading. Studied how to make a successful content website, added a few blogs to http://www.prestonspearls.com/, and received a fitness routine from my friend who is a personal trainer. Heck, I even did some modeling.
The only goal that hasn't distinctly moved forward to realization is my romance goal and while it's progressed, there's nothing definitive to say there.
If I can get my book published (and sell well) and turn prestonspearls.com into a money generating site then I should be able to quit my day job and work full time on writing and blogging! Getting paid for what I love to do and having an unlimited potential income. That's my quantum leap. From civil servant to self-employed author/blogger.
We'll see how close I am in another 80 days!
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