Take a Quantum Leap to Success!

When You get to the other side you
become a different person!

Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn’t just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff. ­– Maya banks, Rush

Success depends a lot on how you see yourself. Your self-image, or personal mind picture or personal definition – whatever you call it – determines how far you go in life and the quality and quantity of goals you achieve in your lifetime.

          We all have a mind picture of ourselves in every area of life. The way you see yourself determines the extent of your success in an area. For example I consider myself a very good inspirational writer – not the best – just very good. Because of this self-image I write good articles – if the responses I get from my posts are anything to go by with. On the other hand I consider myself a horrible dancer. When I am anywhere around dances I immediately look for something else to do to take the attention away from me.

          Your self-image is developed over several years and through various experiences and environments. It grows so strong that it more-often-than-not keeps a strangle hold on you. It ensures you don’t become anything contrary to the image – you see why I may never be a renowned dancer? The same can keep you sick, sad, poor, or an all-round failure for the rest of your life.

There is some hope for folks like me. If you want to do greater things in the area your self-image cannot permit, you need to shake things radically. You need to set and accomplish a goal you could never have imagined in your most wildest of dreams. The type of step I mean is the glutton going on a forty days fast, or the lazy woman joining the marathon race, or me registering for a highly publicized dancing competition.

When we set such goals and are able to achieve them, something happens within. The image changes! We suddenly see ourselves differently and will be more able to accommodate more possibilities.

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If you take this seriously you will have set yourself up for huge accomplishments. It will happen as such because your boundaries of limitation will be expanded with every goal achieved.

Goal Formulation: BE SWIFT ON OPPORTUNITIES!

Before reading this you, hopefully, understand what it means to build on a burden, seek God’s direction and keeping your goals to yourself. These steps are very important in goal achievement. I would proceed on how to formulate your goals. From a point of view, I would be writing on preparation for goal achievement.

TAKE OPPORTUNITIES PROMPTLY: some of the best hunters of the animal kingdom are extremely fast - the Peregrine Falcon (200+ mph), the Cheetah (70 mph), the Lion (50 mph). They need this speed to catch up with some rather fast prey – like the Antelope and Wildebeest. When the Falcon spots its prey it swoops down at it and hit it before it realizes what has come on it. This speed makes it possible for the Falcon to hunt even other birds in flight.

If you would succeed in goal achievement you must be able to swoop on opportunities with great speeds. We, more often than not, debate within ourselves and with others about what to do with opportunities when they come. Your goals will seem unattainable if you must set up a committee every time you meet an opportunity. King Solomon observed that, “The fastest runner does not always win the race,” but it sure helps to be the fastest.

Develop the features that make for speed. Fast animals (or people) do not fly around with huge baggage strapped to their backs. They travel light. My advice is that you drop-off everything that weighs you down – it may be failures of the past or a low self-esteem – no matter what they are, drop them now so you can fly swiftly toward your next opportunity.

Develop focus. When the Cheetah goes hunting it does not try to get all the animals in the herd. It focuses on one and isolates it. When it begins its chase it goes only after that one prey ignoring every other one. Our problem is that we often go after one too many things at a time. This causes internal division and we end up not achieving our goals.

Develop the glide effect. By this I mean that all your various goals should align toward one direction. The dive of the Falcon is enabled by the way its feathers align themselves, thereby reducing its surface area, and giving it that glide effect. Multi-directional goals are to a person what ruffled feathers are to a Falcon – they create friction and reduce your speed.