Breakthroughs on demand

What would you prefer - accidental success, or intentional success? Most of my life has been accidental, based on luck and making the most of any situation. A while back, I was lucky enough to get involved as a "guinea pig" in a program to come up with a formula to create repeatable, significant success. This program, devised by Lisa Haneberg, was called "Two Weeks to a Breakthrough" (2w2aB for short), and it involved working with Lisa to develop techniques to help anyone achieve their goals in a more predictable fashion.

I got a lot out of the program, but it was hard for me to replicate the success without Lisa's help - I needed a guidebook. So, you can imagine how pleased I was to learn that all of the techniques had been bottled up in a book called, "Two Weeks to a Breakthrough: How to Zoom Toward Your Goal in 14 Days or Less."

Best known methods

Lisa's assembled a step-by-step, day-by-day guide to help you create compelling goals, create public commitment to those goals, and begin activating the power of your network to get them done. Sure, you still have to work hard, but there are some tremendous tools and techniques in the book to help you attract help from more places than you'd ever dreamed of.

One aspect that was particularly powerful for me is called the "Requests Blitz." As someone who tends to try to take things on and do lots of the work myself, this armed me with a real, comfortable technique to improve my abilities to ask others for help. Through this process, I discovered that my past challenges in this area weren't really because I was unwilling to ask for help, but more because I found it hard to get clear on what to ask for.

There are many other techniques I found to be very powerful, as well (including a couple of other types of Blitzes), but the Requests Blitz was the most startling for me.

The power of focus

Another very powerful aspect of Lisa's techniques is the way this program helps sharpen your focus on relevant actions. I tend to be interested in everything, which means I can easily become distracted or involved in too many things that were not directly related to my goals. While using the Two Weeks to a Breakthrough methods, I found that it was easier to resist the shiny objects in my path.

This ties in closely to the concept of visualizing what your desired outcomes look like, and "manifesting" your success. This helps clarify what's needed for success, and helps you tune your internal "filters" in such a way that you are more likely to attract the kind of attention and resources to help you achieve your goals.

When you combine this clarity of intent with the repeatable techniques in this book, magic is bound to happen.

By the way - "Focus" is another area in which Lisa excels as a coach - check out her last book, Focus Like a Laser Beam, for more techniques to improve your ability to focus.

A Universal toolkit

What I love about this book is that it is a set of Universal practices that can work for anyone, and be applied to any goal. Think about how powerful that is! I am ordering a spare copy of Lisa's book for my kids, since I think it will be tremendously valuable for them to learn these techniques early in life (and I don't want them to borrow my copy and forget to give it back).

In summary, I consider this book to be a major addition to anyone's personal library, and I recommend you pick up a copy, pick a goal, and let the Breakthroughs begin!

Note: In the US, you'll have a chance to meet Lisa on her motorcycle-based Breakthrough Tour - see the schedule here.

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Dwayne Melancon is the author of Genuine Curiosity, where he is always on the lookout for new things to learn.

Comments

[Greg Balanko-Dickson]

Dwayne that is quite an endorsement for a guy with a blog called Genuine Curiosity. Thanks for putting yourself into the review and making it more personal. Guess, I have another book for my reading and learning list.

[Steve Sherlock]

Dwayne, thanks for these insights. I guess I'll have to pick up the book now. Like Greg, I'll add it to my reading list. I am disappointed that Lisa's road show doesn't come into New England. Maybe next time.

But if you (or anyone else reading JJL) get to New England, let me know!

[Lisa Haneberg]

Dwayne! Wow, thanks so much for sharing your experience with 2W2aB and for giving my book such a great endorsement. I am humbled by your words and excited that they may help more people experience leaps forward in momentum.

What a wonderful gift you have given me, and my birthday is still a couple months off!

Steve, sorry I won't be making it to New England - my original map had New England, Florida, and Montana and it took 2 months - too long!

Perhaps I can come back and do a mini tour and rent a motorbike and just do the northeast and southeast Canada.

[Karen Wallace]

Dwayne,
for me, your description of Lisa's book helping you to sharpen your focus and ignore all those other ideas that flood in, trying to distract you from your chosen path, is worth the price of the book. I am definitely a bit of a bower bird when it comes to shiny objects in my path:)

I am adding this book to my (growing longer every day) list! Thank you.

[Beth Robinson]

Aloha Dwayne,
What a great reminder for me that if I love the blog, I should buy the book! I wish I'd read it soon enough to figure out how to put Lisa's advice together with the book I'm reviewing in a few days...

[Blaine Collins]

Dwayne, I have to echo Greg. This review is so enlightening because you have a story to tell about how you put Lisa's guidance to work. The personal touch adds an unexpected gift.

Thanks too for the heads-up on Lisa's tour, which does come through Dallas (eat your heart out, Steve.)

[Chris Owen]

I'm pea-green with envy that you actually got to be PART of the testing group.
That's great in itself but now you've given me something else that needs to go on the wishlist!!!
Like Rosa says, I like the blog, so why wouldn't I have got the book! Doh!
And like others have said, putting a personal context around your book review certainly makes the bok more tempting!
Finally, Blaine, I thnk gloating at poor Steve is just a smidge naughty! Teacher will have to give you a smack! Oh I forgot, we don't do that any more!!

[Dwayne Melancon]

Thanks for the great feedback, everyone. Being part of the Guinea Pig group was another case of my accidental success. And I'm quite pleased that I was able to be a part of the development of this methodology.

I'd love to hear any success stories after you try the process - and I'm *sure* you'll find success. Remember - it's only 14 days, and you may find you can do far more than you imagined in that short time.