QuantumThink-It
You Can’t Get “There” From “Here”
why change doesn’t work
by
Dianne Collins
Author of the award-winning bestseller
Do You QuantumThink?
New Thinking That Will Rock Your World
Where is your business now? Where do
you want it to be? How do you propose to get it there?
People like
catch phrases. Branding is based on them. Products are remembered for decades
because we can all sing their advertising jingles. My husband and business
partner, Alan is currently fond of using the catch phrase “To be honest with
you…” to preface his statements – which I kid him about asking him, does that
mean you wouldn’t be honest with me when you tell me something without using
that phrase? Anyway, if there were one catch phrase I would want you to pick up
on regarding your business objectives it would be this: You Can’t Get “There” from “Here”.
Okay that’s catchy, but what exactly does it mean?
Today’s Typical Business Scenario
You and your colleagues are ready to make a big shift in your business. In fact, you realize you have to. You’ve got some great and even innovative ideas on how to do that. You see the new direction. You visualize the end result. You feel the excitement of it. You develop the plan to get there. You take the right actions. Yet, months later you’re still in just about the same place with maybe a few positive changes. What’s up with that?
You can’t get “there” from here. The important question
being: Why can’t you? The even more
important question being: How do you get “there”
if not from “here”?
I’ll give
you the bottom line first – then we’ll discuss…
Results
are always a function of the context you are operating from. The most important
context of your business is The Company Mind. The Company Mind is the total culture of thinking, practices, ideas
and attitudes, conclusions and results. A shift in context means a literal leap
in the totality of The Company Mind from “here” to – “there” – as a starting point for new results.
If you own
a business, entrepreneurially develop new businesses, or lead a corporate
business – right now you are very likely thinking about what changes you need to make to the business
to secure its financial viability and market vitality competing in our new
world reality. In this lightning-bolt changing environment – as they say in
Facebook country – the writing is on the wall. The energy cycle of the moment
is restructuring – building systems and structures anew.
There is no
avoiding it. Either you and I will restructure ourselves and our businesses consciously,
deliberately, with awareness and by choice – or the forces of nature will do it
for us, surprising us with circumstances that leave us no choice. However, the
fact of lightning-fast change doesn’t guarantee that things are going to change
in your favor or the way you would “hope” for. What’s a business to do? Fret
not, friends. There is an answer. And it’s not “change.” Here’s why.
3 Simple Reasons Why “Change” Doesn’t Work
(1)
What you
focus on expands.
Translation: Focus on changing the problem and you keep the problem in place.
Translation: Focus on changing the problem and you keep the problem in place.
(2)
Your
business is a resonant field, a “mind field.”
Translation: The Company Mind attracts opportunities and results that resonate with it. The state of The Company Mind determines your results.
When you try to change The Company Mind, you keep the status quo
in place. (See Reason #1.)
Translation: The Company Mind attracts opportunities and results that resonate with it. The state of The Company Mind determines your results.
When you try to change The Company Mind, you keep the status quo
in place. (See Reason #1.)
(3)
You can’t
get “there” from “here”.
Translation: If you desire unprecedented results and/or a new foundation for your business, your current Company Mind Set isn’t going to get you “there”
because the current Resonance (See Reason #2) is giving you the results you have now – and what you really want is something new.
Translation: If you desire unprecedented results and/or a new foundation for your business, your current Company Mind Set isn’t going to get you “there”
because the current Resonance (See Reason #2) is giving you the results you have now – and what you really want is something new.
Let’s explore further with some examples.
Reason # (1) What you
focus on expands.
This is the QuantumThink distinction: Transformation As Distinct From Change. “Transformation” means “going beyond the current form.” This is distinct from “change.” When you are focused on changing the form of something or a business condition, the very thing you want to change must be present in order to change it. Thus, all that attention on “change” is actually keeping the thing you don’t want in place. Not only are you keeping it alive by trying to change it, you are energizing it – so it gets even larger. Hence: What you focus on expands.
This is the QuantumThink distinction: Transformation As Distinct From Change. “Transformation” means “going beyond the current form.” This is distinct from “change.” When you are focused on changing the form of something or a business condition, the very thing you want to change must be present in order to change it. Thus, all that attention on “change” is actually keeping the thing you don’t want in place. Not only are you keeping it alive by trying to change it, you are energizing it – so it gets even larger. Hence: What you focus on expands.
A Typical Example…
John’s negative attitude – does it reside in him or in you?
For example, suppose you are having a “problem” with an associate, John, who in your assessment, has a negative attitude and is slowing down the accomplishment of an important business project. If you are attempting to change John’s negative attitude, by definition you are already relating to him as if he “is” negative – thereby keeping “negative attitude” in place.
The more you focus on John’s negativity, the more you
energize his negativity.
That’s why you can’t get “there” from “here”. “There” in this instance might be relating to John as enthusiastic, creative, and effective. How can you relate to him as enthusiastic and effective when you are relating to him as negative and the source of the project delay? When you distinguish this for yourself, and you realize that Reality is Context-dependent, you open the possibility of leaping to a new and vitalizing Intent (i.e., a different context) with your relationship with John.
That’s why you can’t get “there” from “here”. “There” in this instance might be relating to John as enthusiastic, creative, and effective. How can you relate to him as enthusiastic and effective when you are relating to him as negative and the source of the project delay? When you distinguish this for yourself, and you realize that Reality is Context-dependent, you open the possibility of leaping to a new and vitalizing Intent (i.e., a different context) with your relationship with John.
QuantumThink-It
Reality Is Context-dependent.
Reality Is Context-dependent.
There is no absolute,
fixed way that you are, he is, she is, they are, or it is.
Everything is Energy-In-Flux informed by intelligence and directed by Intent.
Reason # (2) Your business is a Resonant field, a field of mind, a “mind field.”
Everything is Energy-In-Flux informed by intelligence and directed by Intent.
Reason # (2) Your business is a Resonant field, a field of mind, a “mind field.”
Your business is a Resonant field, a “mind field” that
attracts opportunities and results that resonate with it.
If you are a
QuantumThinker you already realize that mind creates reality. Your patterns
of thinking generate your actions and create all of your results. Consider that
your company also has a mind that is shaping actions and creating your business
results.
What we call a business culture is really a “mind
field.” The Company Mind includes practices and standards, thinking
patterns and attitudes, and especially includes what you and others say about the business and its
capabilities as a matter of habit.
Are you making the
distinction between you and your business? You and your business – there is
no separation yet there are distinctions. You infuse your thinking patterns
into the business, yet the business as an entity in and of itself also takes on
a life of its own, or shall we say, your business develops a mind of its own.
Thinking patterns become established in the business just as they do in an
individual or in any culture.
It’s become very clear in our experience over the past 12
years working in leading corporations that they tend to operate from a mind
field or Resonance that for the most part is not consciously generated. Even so this Company Mind is shaping the way
people think and relate to their business and to their customers – without even
realizing the limits they are placing on it as a result of old and oftentimes
outdated habits and patterns of thinking. These thinking habits lead to
“conclusions” that we could call unaware “Intents” – contexts that keep the
business stuck in its old ways even when you have a conscious Intent for a new
direction.
Typical Company Examples:
The Company Mind –
are the habits of thinking limiting or expanding your results?
-Business Owner
Your goal is to be known as a world class business. Yet, you
relate to your business as a Mom & Pop. Mom & Pop operating decisions
don’t get you to the stature of world class business. You have to view the
world of commerce from the perspective of a world class business to operate
like a world class business and be known as one, too. You can’t get “there” from the “here” of Mom & Pop.
-Entrepreneur
You are an entrepreneur with many businesses. You think of them as separate. You are finding they are taking up too much time so you imagine the “solution” is to cut – get rid of some of them. (Typical “old world view” thinking, by the way, not personal to you.) Yet if you think from being an enterprise, you will begin to see how they all integrate and the way to effectively utilize resources that affect all the businesses and this frees you.
You are an entrepreneur with many businesses. You think of them as separate. You are finding they are taking up too much time so you imagine the “solution” is to cut – get rid of some of them. (Typical “old world view” thinking, by the way, not personal to you.) Yet if you think from being an enterprise, you will begin to see how they all integrate and the way to effectively utilize resources that affect all the businesses and this frees you.
-Senior Leader in
Corporation
You have a revenue target and market share projection based on growth. However The Company Mind is thinking (and saying) “The economy is down. Companies don’t have money. Clients aren’t buying.” It is obvious that those “conclusions” (i.e., unaware Intents; remember, in the quantum world there are no “absolutes”) will set up a Resonant field that repels rather than attracts new business.
You have a revenue target and market share projection based on growth. However The Company Mind is thinking (and saying) “The economy is down. Companies don’t have money. Clients aren’t buying.” It is obvious that those “conclusions” (i.e., unaware Intents; remember, in the quantum world there are no “absolutes”) will set up a Resonant field that repels rather than attracts new business.
Reason # (3) You
can’t get “there” from “here”.
Even when an innovation is presented, even when you have
developed an unprecedented strategic plan of action, if you are still operating from the old Resonant field, the vortex of
that field will sweep everything up into the force of it.
What’s possible then? The Company Mind can take a virtual
leap to a new state – and operate from an entirely new field, a different
context that allows for a new foundation –
a new platform and structure for your business that
naturally gives rise to new results.
QuantumThink-It
Everything in this universe and in our world is vibrating Energy –
creating Resonance.
According to the principle of Resonance, we attract what is consistent with the range of our Resonant field.
We attract results consistent with what we are Resonating.
What we habitually maintain in our mind field essentially is ourResonant field.
According to the principle of Resonance, we attract what is consistent with the range of our Resonant field.
We attract results consistent with what we are Resonating.
What we habitually maintain in our mind field essentially is ourResonant field.
Okay, then …How do you get The Company Mind to
think in a new way?
“I can’t understand
why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of old ones.”
-John Cage
Several
years ago I started thinking about what would enable people in corporations to
actually QuantumThink their business – which meant,
- Seeing the business as a whole “field”
- Seeing the way all the specific areas of the business interact and influence one another
- Seeing how The Company Mind is no different than the individual mind in the sense that if you desire different results in your business, your business has to think in a new way. This means not just come up with some clever new ideas – it means having a new foundation for thinking – from a quantum world view rather than from the old industrial world view.
QuantumThink-It
You cannot see a new world view from the perspective of an old world view.
You have to take a literal quantum leap in consciousness (mind) and look from the new principles rather than looking at them from your current perspective.
If you have only lived in New York City and you want to be effective living in the Sahara Desert, you need to go to the Sahara and start living from their principles rather than trying to apply the principles that worked for you in The Big Apple.
You cannot see a new world view from the perspective of an old world view.
You have to take a literal quantum leap in consciousness (mind) and look from the new principles rather than looking at them from your current perspective.
If you have only lived in New York City and you want to be effective living in the Sahara Desert, you need to go to the Sahara and start living from their principles rather than trying to apply the principles that worked for you in The Big Apple.
The Touching Story of the QuantumThink Global
Business Blueprint
One picture worth a thousand words.
Most people
know me as the QuantumThink diva and don’t realize that I am also a visual
artist, actually an award-winning photographic artist. The reason I bring this
up is not to caress my ego but to express to you that I see finished pictures
where there are none to begin with. During my years as a professional
photographic artist, I would walk into a client’s building or home and look at
a blank wall and know what as-yet-nonexistent artwork belonged there. I am sure
many of you have this talent as well.
Anyway the
point of the story is about seeing pictures that weren’t there. One day several
years ago I started thinking about what could enable people in our client
corporations to QuantumThink their business. I remember the precise moment. I
saw the picture. I was sitting in the big club chair in my library. I grabbed a
piece of paper and started sketching. It came streaming through me, you know,
like the stories you read about inventors who wake up with an answer to a
problem or with an invention that becomes a great solution. I wasn’t even sure
what we would do with it at the time. I engaged a graphic artist to make it
digital and here is the result. Click on the link to see it, please. QuantumThink
Global Business Blueprint I called
it the QuantumThink Global Business Blueprint because it enabled people to view
the totality of their business and all the aspects of it in one picture. It was
a blueprint that one could build from
in many ways.
Furthermore,
to QuantumThink-It would mean – to first distinguish the current mind field or
“old world view” of the business – and then take a leap to a “new world view”
and begin the restructuring and refinements of The Company Mind and hence, view
the business from the proper context leading to the desired results. You
literally experience being “there”.
In each of
the 3 parts of this article we’ll show you how to start using The QuantumThink
Global Business Blueprint – to take your business where you want it to go –
starting from “there”.
© 2009 Dianne Collins
QuantumThink-It Recreation
QuantumThink “Recreations” are practices for the mind and awareness
that have you living the wisdom of the principles.
QuantumThink “Recreations” are practices for the mind and awareness
that have you living the wisdom of the principles.
Recreation for You Can’t Get
There From Here – Part 1
If you have a business, manage a business unit, or manage
many entrepreneurial projects, and ask yourself (with colleagues as
appropriate) these 3 questions:
1-
Where is your business now?
2-
Where do you want the business to be?
3-
How do you propose to get the business there?
Refer to the 12 specific sections of the QuantumThink Global
Business Blueprint to stimulate your thinking.
Part 2
Leap Before You Look
If you can’t get
“there” from “here” –
how do we get “there” if we’re “here” to begin with?
how do we get “there” if we’re “here” to begin with?
by Dianne Collins
Creator-Author of
QuantumThink®
Where is your business now? Where do you want it to be? How do you propose to
get it there?
A Journey of 400 Years Does
Not A Leap Make
If you were born anytime during the past 400 years or so you might venture an
answer to “how to get your business there” that is more than likely based on
(1) what you can see or envision now, (2) what worked in the past for you or
others, or (3) some logical pathway of what you imagine are the right action
steps to take the business where you want it to go. There is nothing wrong with
that thinking per se – the point to consider is if you are ready to restructure
your business to create a new foundation for sustainable success, “the tried
and true” that worked in the past is probably not going to get you there.
The reason I mention 400 years is because that is approximately how long our
thinking has been influenced by the “old world view” picture of reality that
spawned the industrial age of machines. Also known as the “classical-mechanical
world view” – this was a picture of the universe as a Giant Machine. Scientists
declared that only physical matter was real, that time moved in only one
direction, and that a logical, push-pull, cause and effect process was
basically how you got something to happen.
You don’t have to be a scientist, rocket or otherwise, to realize that we are
living in a sea of technology that has advanced well beyond the “machine”
(though it also includes it). [Click
here to compare these two world views to see that each paints a completely
different picture of the nature of reality.]
We’re texting and tweeting and teleconferencing – our lifestyles, commerce, and
communications in a spaceless, timeless world. We Are One is not just a catch
phrase. We are networked and unified and personified. The quantum world view
sees the universe as a Giant Mind. It is a universe of whole systems, a
Multidimensional reality of Energy-In-Flux informed by intelligence where the
dynamic of having something happen is a function not of pushing or
pulling on circumstances – the dynamic of creating for human beings in ordinary
everyday life is our very own power of Intent. Yes, friends, it’s a mind thing.
For this reason the importance of distinguishing The Company Mind is paramount.
Though the
old world industrial age view offers brilliance and usefulness to us, it seems
clear that the limits of that thinking won’t produce the quantum effects you
desire. (Hence, the raison d’être of QuantumThink.) You don’t have to take my
word for it. Here is how you can tell whether your company’s current thinking
will lead to the results you want now: whatever the current thinking of The
Company Mind is until this moment – including approaches, strategies, and
tactics – are giving you the results you have now. If you want different
results, The Company Mind has to think in a new way. Not just have some new
ideas, but think from a different foundation. Then again, that’s why you are
here with me in Part 2 and that’s great!
What’s Comfortable May Not Be
All That Comfortable – Just Familiar
As much as we all want a BIG change in our business now, as much as we know we
need to make that change – still, behind the scenes we tend to want to stay
with what has worked in the past. It just seems more comfortable to stick with
the status quo. I mean, it’s not that bad, right? It’s been working, we
tell ourselves. The irony is that in our present economic and evolutionary
cycles, if you examine this forthrightly – what worked in the past really
isn’t all that comfortable anymore. It may be wise to make the distinction
between what’s comfortable and what’s familiar. Nevertheless, you
might still feel hesitancy to move on it.
If you are waiting for me to say “don’t worry that’s natural,” well, I am not
going to. Yes, I did mention the phrase – however let’s be clear: in no way
am I implying, stating, or otherwise conceding that it’s “natural” to want to
cling to the past. It may be an “automatic” habit but let’s not
mistakenly call it natural. In fact in QuantumThink we call those
automatic thoughts and reactions “Least-action Pathways” – the way of the least
creative route – to distinguish the way the energy habitually goes simply
because it’s been down that track before.
Cowering back from change is not “natural.” Observe nature. From the tiniest
saplings to the tallest trees, they all tower toward the light. What’s natural
is the yearning for growth, for creativity, for adventure. What’s natural
is a desire for transformation. What’s natural is a passion for greater
purpose. What’s natural is stepping up to meet the energies of our
changing times and elevate our own mastery.
Thinking “Outside the Box”
Does Not A Leap Make
People always ask me – oh, QuantumThink, is that like “thinking outside the
box” and sometimes, to borrow Alan’s favorite catch phrase of the moment, to
be honest with you, sometimes I will just say “yes” to be polite. However,
QuantumThinking is not thinking outside the box because insofar as you
are referencing a “box” – you are still in relation to that box.
Some salient examples you’ll be familiar with…We call radio wave technology
that make cell phones possible “wireless” – still in relation to the box called
“wire.” We explain quantum effects by calling them “nonlinear” – still in
relation to the box called “linear”. And there is the classic example, the
“horseless carriage,” the original term for an automobile – still in relation
to the box called “horse.” As fantastic and innovative as our inventions are –
consider what might be possible if we were equally innovative in the way we
think about them. We could leap the viewpoint of the new invention and
look from the new reality it created (eg, radio waves) – rather than from the
old reality the invention was a leap from (copper wires).
Leap First, Then Look
To think in a new way is not just to have a creative thought; it is to think
from an entirely different reality system, that is, from new principles. In
fact that is what we do when we QuantumThink. We think from the new
world view principles of the quantum reality rather than look at then
from the old world view of the “matter only” universe.
Similarly, if you want a result that is unprecedented in your business The
Company Mind has to think from already being “there”. Let’s say that
another way: You start with the result. You “Leap Before You Look” You view
your business as if it has already arrived at where you want it to be – and you
start looking at it from “there”. (See Part 1 for all the reasons
why that is.)
We discussed that you and I and our business entities exist in fields – Mind
Fields – Resonant fields of energy and intelligence, of information and
awareness; fields of inherent connection. The principle of Resonance operates
as “sympathetic vibration” – what the field Resonates, the energy emanates and
attracts opportunities, situations, people, results that are consistent with
it. The Resonant field of a company, business, or business culture is what we
are calling The Company Mind.
If you did
the Recreation practice for Part 1 and actually asked yourself where you want
your business to go, and you contemplated how you and your colleagues thought
you would get it “there” – the task may have seemed arduous or perhaps you felt
it would take too long to bring it about. The good news here is that the
“how-to” question has small relevance in the quantum world because the quantum
world is the land of quantum leaps. Quantum leaps by definition have no
pathway, no step-by-step “how-to.”
QuantumThink-It
A quantum leap is an instantaneous shift in an energy
state – from one state to another – with no traceable pathway as to how
it got there.
A quantum leap in consciousness happens by virtue of your Intent to jump to a new state.
A quantum leap in consciousness happens by virtue of your Intent to jump to a new state.
What is a quantum leap in consciousness? You and I are taking mini
quantum leaps in consciousness all the time – every time your mind jumps from
one topic to another. Unless you have spent some time mastering your mind and
awareness, these leaps are in a sense running on their own. The difference here
is you are taking a quantum leap in mind state consciously. A
case in point, how do you get from “old world view” industrial age thinking
(here) to “new world view” QuantumThinking (there)? You take a literal quantum
leap in consciousness.
Now we are speaking of course about The Company Mind taking a quantum leap. How
do you get your company “there”? You have The Company Mind take a quantum leap.
There is no pathway in a quantum leap. One moment The Company Mind is “here”
and the next moment it’s “there” and you cannot trace how that happened.
If you want to make a fundamental, foundational leap and begin a new trajectory
for the business, you start thinking and planning and acting and making decisions
from “There”.
Back to business…
Your E-Ticket to “There” – 3
Essentials
1- Awakened
Thinking
2- Quantum Leap in The Company Mind
2- Quantum Leap in The Company Mind
3- Thinking
in Sync with Quantum Principles
Let’s discuss.
Essential # 1 Awakened Thinking
Since you can’t get “there” from “here” first you have to
notice where you are (“here”) – so you realize what’s not getting you there
(realizing “here” won’t get you “there”).
This requires Awakening Thinking. Awakened Thinking means
becoming aware of the thoughts your Company Mind is having as a matter of
habit.
The best way to accomplish awakened assessment is to
become aware of what you and others actually say about your company, the
company’s current state and what’s possible (or not). If you write these
statements and comments down and peruse them you will likely notice an underlying theme or thread to this Resonant field.
The Company Mind has surrogates – you, your associates, your
customers, industry group and yes, even your personal friends and family. They
have been conditioned to think of your company the way you portray it to them.
For Example…
Consult with Your Company Mind Before You Consult with Your Clients
Consult with Your Company Mind Before You Consult with Your Clients
Suppose you have a consulting firm that specializes in
developing and coaching people in leadership. And you’re aware that leaders to
be effective today and into the future must develop themselves
Multidimensionally – including the intellectual, relational, spiritual, and
emotional aspects of themselves as they relate to professional life as leaders.
Sounds good…however, Your Company Mind thinks it will
be difficult to acquire corporate clients if you present your company’s
authentic understanding and desire to deliver this Multidimensional approach –
fearing your prospective clients will think of this approach as too “soft” or
“alternative” or “far out” or in some way not relevant to results in
traditional corporate culture. In fact, you and your colleagues often make
remarks like this to one another in private. Their senior leadership really
needs to connect to their spiritual nature, but… Now it is important
to take note – this “thought” is in Your Company Mind – it is not in the
client’s mind.
Now you have a meeting with a
new prospective client.
As a surrogate of The Company Mind,
imagine what you would be resonating. Either you would present what you
authentically think about leadership development – resonating the background
“unaware Intent” – they’re not going to be open to this. And the
result could be you don’t get the contract with the client. Or, you might go
into the meeting and withhold what you are passion about, in this example, that
Multidimensional leadership development is the most effective approach. The
result of “withholding” what is authentic and distinctive to you – that even if
you acquire the client, you start to enjoy your work less and less because you
are diminishing the experience of fulfillment. The client relationship might
even come to an end quickly because in your own spirit, you don’t really
want to work that way.
You can see how The Company Mind context, “it will be difficult to get clients if we let them know what we really think, etc.” would result in a scarcity of clients and/or lack of joy in doing your work….not to mention not being known for the distinctiveness your consulting firm is.
You can see how The Company Mind context, “it will be difficult to get clients if we let them know what we really think, etc.” would result in a scarcity of clients and/or lack of joy in doing your work….not to mention not being known for the distinctiveness your consulting firm is.
A quantum leap of The Company Mind is a conscious shift in state.
The new state is a Resonant field that generates different results.
Essential # 2 Quantum Leap
“Would you tell me, please,
which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want
to get to,' said the Cat.”
-Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
By now it is clear: The Company Mind field must start with
the mind field of the desired result(s). Once you are awake to the current
habits and patterns (See Essential #1) – you take the leap by starting with a
new statement of Intent that is consistent with the desired “end state.”
Perhaps in the form of a Strategic Intent for your company. You start with the
result.
Continuing the Example
To follow with the Multidimensional leadership development example, your “end state” Your Strategic Intent might look something like this:
Providing leaders the leading edge.
To follow with the Multidimensional leadership development example, your “end state” Your Strategic Intent might look something like this:
Providing leaders the leading edge.
Very Important
Notice that the Strategic Intent is not the opposite of
the “default” state of The Company Mind. This would be in relation to that same
old box, in or out. Your statement to generate a new Resonance is what you want,
not the opposite of what you don’t want. That would be “change”. What do we
know about “change”? Basically, it doesn’t work. (See Part 1).
Essential # 3 Think In Sync with
Quantum Principles
Thinking in Sync with Quantum Principles means fundamentally
thinking from Wholes not parts; thinking from Resonant fields, not fixed
objects; thinking from Mind as the fundamental reality, not physical matter.
We’ll discuss this more in Part 3.
Mind Over Matter – Not Just A
Catch Phrase
"As a man who has devoted
his whole life to the most clear-headed science, to the study of matter, I can
tell you as the result of my research about the atoms, this much: There is no
matter as such!
All matter originates and
exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the
existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all
matter.”
-Nobel Laureate Max Planck during a lecture in Florence, Italy, 1944
QuantumThink-It
Mind is the fundamental reality.
Mind is the fundamental reality.
Perhaps the most challenging aspect of thinking from quantum
principles is the idea that matter is not fixed and solid.
Translation:
Circumstances, regardless of how “real” they are, are not the determinants of what’s possible or of what your business can achieve and achieve rapidly.
Circumstances, regardless of how “real” they are, are not the determinants of what’s possible or of what your business can achieve and achieve rapidly.
We’ve all heard the catch phrase, “a victim of
circumstances”. This is one catch phrase you might want to eliminate from your
lexicon if you wish to QuantumThink.
From a quantum world view, the source of results is not based
in existing material circumstances. Results are always a function of the state
of The Company Mind, the Resonant field generated by Intent that takes form as
habits and patterns of thinking.
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Reality Is Context-dependent
Reality Is Context-dependent
From a quantum world view, Reality Is Context-dependent.
There is no “absolute” way that something “is”. Intent is a context created by
you that you are choosing to live from as a context that shapes thinking,
action, and results.
“If we worked on the assumption that what is
accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.”
-Orville Wright, co-inventor of the airplane
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The quantum reality is a world of paradox.
The quantum reality is a world of paradox.
Paradox means something
seemingly contradictory that is nonetheless true!
When you take the quantum leap to the new state of The
Company Mind you operate as if the desired result is already occurring, the new
Resonant mind field is already in place, even when the already existing
“material” circumstances appear to be contradictory.
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The quantum reality is a world of Infinite Possibility
The quantum reality is a world of Infinite Possibility
Pollyanna-ish “positive thinking?” Not at all.
(That’s just industrial age thinking kicking in.) Positive thinking is a
function of the old world view because it is based in a belief in fixed
circumstances, that something is “the way it is” and therefore we have to think
“real positively” about it and at least try to change it. Of course, by
now you realize “change doesn’t work” ;-) (See Part 1 in case you forgot.)
It is always a good idea to think positive thoughts however, we are speaking
about Intent. Intent activates a field of probability in a world of Infinite
Possibility and attracts many results consistent with it.
You can choose to operate from a Company Mind that is giving
you the results you want, or you can generate a new Resonant field – A Company
Mind that will give you the results you want. It’s all a matter of Intent.
QuantumThink-It Recreation
QuantumThink “Recreations” are practices for the mind and awareness
that have you living the wisdom of the principles.
QuantumThink “Recreations” are practices for the mind and awareness
that have you living the wisdom of the principles.
Recreation for
Part 2 of You Can’t Get There From Here
Leap Before You Look
Leap Before You Look
I
Distinguish the Company Mind
1.
Using the QuantumThink Global Business Blueprint,
review the 12 areas of business on the outer edge of the circle. Select the one
that requires the most focus now in your company.
2.
Start to notice the statements and conclusions that you
actually speak (say) about that specific area of the business. Not what you
imagine or think or wish about it, but what comes streaming forth from yours
and others’ lips.
3.
Write these down as they happen, just a day or two.
4.
When you have the list of things you say, notice
whether there is a thread of theme through them – an “unaware Intent” the
business is operating from in that area. See if you can put it into one simple
statement.
5.
Notice how these statements are shaping your current
results.
6.
Realize that even though you may have circumstances and
“evidence” for those statements, in the quantum world nothing is absolute –
everything is Energy In Flux, shifting and being shaped according to Intent.
These statements are not “the truth” – they are simply habits of The Company
Mind.
II
A Quantum Leap for The Company Mind
1.
Take a quantum leap for The Company Mind to “there” –
whatever that is for you and your colleagues.
2.
Looking from “there” – what statement of context or
Strategic Intent would you be operating from? Write out the statement of Intent
that resonates with “there.”
3.
Edit and Sort. Notice when you or others say things
inconsistent with you new statement – and mentally view those statements as the
“old world view” of the business and return to your newly created Intent.
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Dianne Collins is the
author of the award-winning bestseller, Do
You QuantumThink? New Thinking That Will Rock Your World, and the
creator of the QuantumThink®
system of thinking. She consults celebrities and executives, entrepreneurs and
students, artists and homemakers in thinking for a new world.
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