Dianne Collins, original thinker and media personality — author of the 6-time award-winning bestseller, Do You QuantumThink? New Thinking That Will Rock Your World – considered a “must-read” book for our changing times. Dianne’s life is dedicated to people living spirited, joyful, and masterful lives through leaps in awareness and learning what she calls “the physics of mind.”
Dianne created the QuantumThink® system of thinking — 21 principles that connect us to living our full potential — from inner serenity to harmonious relationships, business results, and global affairs. In Do You QuantumThink? Dianne puts it all together – integrating science, philosophy, and spirituality and drawing on sources from cutting-edge scientific innovations to the wisdom of the world’s greatest spiritual leaders — made practical in daily life.Dianne’s work makes it easy and enjoyable for us to think in sync with our modern Quantum Age – to live happier lives with confidence and mastery.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Daymond John – Shark Tank – Fubu Clothing
When business started difficulties overcame:
…We had another partner earlier when we first started the company but then we parted ways because we wanted to use technology to replicate our work and he wanted to hire consultants, like replicate through people we wanted to replicate through technology. So I think that was an important thing to is seeing how okay unless we want to make that compatible which we didn’t want to at the time it was a great parting of the waves. So I think it is very very important for anyone to know what do we really want and when we looked at it we created a strategic intent for our business…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity Book by Catherine PonderThe Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage Book by Daniel Paisner and Daymond John
Do You QuantumThink?: New Thinking That Will Rock Your World by Dianne Collins
Favourite Quote:
“If you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re probably right!” Henry Ford
Other quotes mentioned:
“I have been broke many times but I have never been poor”
“ideas are a dime a dozen, execution is everything”
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to other entrepreneurs:
Live fully dimensionally. That is look at all aspects of what makes a business successful and it always begins with what you really want and what you are passionate about and to be able to distinguish what it is your talents and gifts and what you are here to give to the world…[Listen for More]
More About Dianne Collins:
Article “You can’t get there from here” Dianne Collins
Quantum Think Audio Coach
Do You QuantumThink?: New Thinking That Will Rock Your World by Dianne Collins
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You never have to know all the answers, because you won’t be asked all the questions.”
Other quotes from Dianne Collins in the chat:
The 21 Quantum think principals – Distinctions in new thinking
“how can we quantum think to get faster better easier more exciting results in our business”
“everything influences everything else”
“we are in a Quantum age, we have much more knowledge available to us”
“We are in a quantum age but we are all very much under the influence of industrial age thinking”
“the pace of change is accelerating”
“where do you find certainty in an uncertain world”
“is the glass half full or half empty, the line of the water is the same”
“every mistake is an opportunity”
“you can always create a quantum leap in your life”
“make sure that you are always in a strong foundation”
“everyone knows that a business plan is a living breathing thing so it is always going to be flexible it is nothing set in stone”
“the company has a mind, and the mind is the culture”
#00:00:56-1# Neil: Hello it’s Neil Ball here, thank you so much for joining me today on the entrepreneur way, the entrepreneur way is about the entrepreneur’s journey. The vision, the mind-set, the commitment, the sacrifice, failures and successes. I am so excited to bring you our special guest today, Dianne Collins, but before I introduce you to her, I have a quote for you. You never have to know all the answers, because you won’t be asked all the questions. The entrepreneur way asks the questions so we all get the insight, inspiration and ideas to apply in our businesses. Dianne, welcome to the show, are you ready to share your version of the entrepreneur way with us? #00:01:41-2# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: Absolutely, yes I would be delighted to share. Great Dianne, thanks for coming on the show. Thank you for having me Neil. #00:01:47-3# Neil: It’s a pleasure. Imagine if your thoughts were as up to date as your technology. Well it is possible when you quantum think, my guest today is Dianne Collins original thinker and media personality, and author of six-time award winning best-seller, Do you quantum think? New thinking that will rock your world, which is considered a must-read book for changing times. Dianne’s life is dedicated to people living spirited, joyful and masterful lives, through leaps in awareness and learning that she calls the physics of the mind. Dianne created the quantum think system of thinking 21 principles that connect us to living to our full potential, from inner-serenity to harmonious relationships, business results and global affairs. Dianne, can you provide us with some more insight into your business and personal life? to allow us to get to know more about what you do and who you are? #00:02:49-5# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: I would love to. Well first let me say that I am living for many years now, in Miami Beach Florida in the USA, and I live with my husband who is British and we had been working together, Alan K. Collins, we have been working in our partners and everything in business together for as long as we have been married, which is 26 years. And what we do, is we consult and coach, and deliver tele-conference programmes, mostly in business. We have also done it in agencies and the United States Government and we have public programmes, from time to time for individual entrepreneurs, solopreneurs and what we do is we apply quantum thinking, expansion in your thinking to the results that you want to produce in life, and so we have worked with many major corporations all over the world, one time we had programme where we had 8 different time zones, with people in it from 8 different time zones. So we know that it works and the interesting thing is Neil, is that I kind of did things backwards, I know a lot of people they have an idea, they write a book and then they develop a programme out of it and then develop a coaching or a consulting business. And for me, what I did, I finally got my book, ‘do you quantum think?’ out a few years ago. And people do consider it classic, so what it’s about, what I was going to say is I did it kind of backwards, because we first delivered these principles. The 21 quantum think principles which I call distinctions in new thinking. These are based in insights from cutting edge science, quantum thinking is not about science, it’s about how the discoveries of science have shaped the way we think and how we can use the new discoveries to shape the way we think, and at the same time the new discoveries which we can call quantum insights for short and a lot of people are now, ‘that’s the new buzzword, quantum this, quantum that.’ Are proving in the scientific experimentation what the perennial wisdom, the wisdom that is common to all mastery traditions, so there it’s ancient, it’s timeless, and it’s new at the same time and my part of it is that I wanted to know how do we go from merely knowing the wisdom, to actually living it? And so that’s what I do is make it practical and modern and everyday life, how can we quantum think to get faster, better, easier more exciting results in our businesses? #00:06:07-6# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: Because life is holistic and holographic, that’s the very first principle. Everything influences everything else, if you have a transformation, in or leap you know like in the octave of your performance, in your mastery of a certain area, with one relationship let’s say, a business partner, a business associate, a client relationship, that transformation affects all of your relationship. So, that’s a long but a short form. #00:06:49-5# Neil: Ok. #00:06:51-5# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: Of what we have been doing and what I was going to say is, so it works, so I knew it was working because we were delivering these programmes, and delivering the quantum think distinctions orally, and then eventually I thought, well I have got to get this out, you know make it more available and accessible to everyone in the world and that is when I finally put together the book, ‘do you quantum think?’ #00:07:18-8# Neil: Uh huh, and can you just give some examples of the types of things you do with this. What I am really thinking is, could you give us examples of how you have applied your thinking so that it has created, so that it has made some kind of difference? #00:07:38-5# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: Yes of course, well let me just give you a little bit of the premise of it, is that we are in a quantum age, we have much more knowledge available to us, you know people talk about mind-set, or we have to have you know the right positive mental attitude or any of that stuff. If this takes it much further, let’s say than that, it used to be, let me give you the premise. The premise is that we are in quantum age, but we are still very much under the influence of industrial age thinking, what’s the difference? Two entirely different set of assumptions that we could call the world view. What we believed to be true, about the nature of reality, how it works, what we are capable of, what we are not, what’s possible and what’s not. And so that, what I lovingly call the old world view, that began in the 17th century, and up through let’s say, ‘The time of Einstein’ where the science actually declared ‘only physical matter is real’ so everything was around the physical dimension. And the physical dimension you say is the dimension of circumstances, so how does this apply to thinking and results? Well when you look in the circumstances, to see what’s possible, you are going to be limited by what has already occurred in the past. So when you are quantum thinking in contrast, when you are quantum thinking, you realise that regardless of existing circumstances, that when you have a shift in your own perspective which actually has a resonance to it. #00:09:41-1# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: You know when you say, ‘I resonate with that, I don’t resonate with that,’ that’s how things actually manifest, and this has everything to do with our habit’s of thinking. So when you are quantum thinking, what you are able to do Neil is you are able to distinguish the habit’s of thinking that you have and who knows and how it does not matter how they got there, they could be from the culture, from your ancestory. It does not make any difference, I call these least action pathways, the least creative action. The least conscious action, they come in and then you notice them, as my husband says, they get there before you do. So when you are quantum thinking, you realise that fundamentally we are in a world of energy-influx informed by intelligence, and that we as human observers, are able to shift the context, shift the trajectory of our results when we shift the context of how we think, how we approach a situation. I will tell you a specific example, but I wanted to give you the background of it, so that everyone understands. So and it is much simpler than you think right? So I say it like this, old-world view, circumstance rules. New-world view that quantum think distinguishes, intent rules. An underlying intent, which is a context that you are choosing to live from. Underlying the intent is the quantum insight that there is no fixed way that something is, so there is no way that the business is, the economy is, the government is, the politicians are, it really is a question of what you bring to it, that is called the observer effect. #00:11:44-6# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: In science, and I say it, ‘observer created reality’. What we as human observers bring to our observation, shapes what happens so to apply it, we have one of the distinctions and I have kind of referred to it, is called ‘success to mastery’ that we are in this time, because we are not in isolation here, we are in a time where three undeniable conditions are going on in the world. Interviewer: One. is the pace of change is accelerating and we know this including anyone familiar with digital technology, we know that’s getting, right? faster and faster and faster the way it is changing, so and that is a scientific fact by the way, that the pace of change is accelerating . #00:12:45-9# Two. We have increasing complexity in choice because of our amazing technologies, you know everyone has hundreds of identities right? on the internet, and #00:13:01-2# Three. Because we are in this time, of a basic restructuring of our institutions, of our businesses, of ourselves, that every day, there is a great amount of uncertainty, you know you open up your cell phone and you never know what you are going to be hearing about in the news. So these three conditions, the pace of change, the increasing amount of choice and what’s called in marketing, noise right? And the third thing is the uncertainty, well where do you find certainty in an uncertain world like this? and this is where I say, in the distinction, success to mastery, that we are in a time where we cannot just rely on our past successes to bring us through going forward. Even formulas which are great formulas, that are based on past successes, and what has worked that have worked in the past, may not work now. So what does it mean to move from success to mastery? Is that when you are working from a state of mastery, from an intent for mastery, you are looking right now in your business in your life at what is best and what will work now. And so the practise, which I call the recreation, for each one of these quantum think distinctions, the practises I call a recreation to mean a double entendre, recreating the distinction in your life practically so that it is you are actually living it. And it also means that recreation and amusement for your mind and awareness, but what the practise for success to mastery is to listen to the simplest practise that everyone can begin right now. #00:14:59-5# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: As I say it, to listen from not knowing. Now think of not knowing as a hyphenated one-word. Listen from not knowing, now this has to be done Neil as a conscious act because we are always listening from knowing. Of course we are, because that is how we survive you know, physically we have to and we all have experiences and successes in the repertoire of our being. So we are always listening from knowing, but let’s say you are in a new situation, where you want to know, here is a client I would like to have as a client and yet, actually this happened to me. This client has been working with another company forever let’s say, 20 years and let’s say this was many years ago. I’m new to this business, the client that I want has been working with this other provider, this other consultant for 20 years. So you might be in the automatic least action pathway thought, right that oh no they are never going to, it’s not like you want this but it’s just there in your being. #00:16:21-7# Neil: Mmmmm #00:16:21-7# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: They are never going to go with me, because I don’t have the experience, I don’t have this, I don’t have that, and so this is where you listen from not knowing to yourself. You know, how you relate to yourself, how you relate to what is possible, and of course many of the great entrepreneurial spirit, this is the entrepreneurial spirit. Is to a lot of us that comes naturally, and so what we say is sometimes that the least action pathway is not bad, that is the least action pathway of an entrepreneurial spirit, and that’s good. The difference is if you come across a circumstance like the one I have just described, where you think you are not going to get the client. Even though you have within you that entrepreneurial spirit, you will when you are quantum thinking, you have enough awareness to realise ‘just because you have a thought does not make it the truth, it is no way absolute, you don’t have to own it, and you don’t have to identify with that thought in anyway’. Thereby, you go beyond your limiting thought, you listen from not knowing, and then what do you do? First you interrupt that absolutely disempowering thought, you just let it fly by as we say like a very past you window, and then what do you do? You create an intent for that relationship with that perspective client, consciously with the awareness that you are doing it and an intent is something like this, I am talking long so I have to stop, you can ask your questions but I wanted people to really be able to distinguish this together with me, as I am speaking and everyone who is listening is listening, but this is part of one conversation, the listening, the quality of listening is just as important as the speaking. #00:18:35-3# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: So what do you do? A statement of intent, is not an intention like an end result measurable. A statement of intent for that perspective client relationship could be said, for example like this, that we are excited about meeting and discussing the possibilities of working together, we have respect for one another’s value and it is very exciting to be able to meet with this person this afternoon. Now, that statement is a statement of intent that you are choosing to live from. The default statement being ‘I don’t know, I am not good enough’ and every variation on that theme. From a quantum world view, there is no that absolute way that anything is. It’s a question of, ‘Is the glass half-full? is the glass half-empty?’ The line of the water in the glass is the same, what will you live from? And when you are quantum thinking, you realise, when you shift your skate, to a statement of intent like that, it’s not quote ‘the truth’ either, it’s not the truth that the client is not going to go with you, it’s not the truth that the client is excited to work with you. But when we coach our clients this way, because we understand the nature of ‘how to use the faculties of mind’ that we are born with, these creative dynamics. It works. #00:20:18-5# Neil: Mmmm #00:20:18-5# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: And it shifts the whole thing and you shift the field, because we exist in these invisible fields of course, that the old world view which only focused on what we can see, hear, feel, touch and taste. You are not thinking about a relational feel, but that’s how most of everything in life gets accomplished through that connection. So that was a lot said, but did that make sense to you? #00:20:46-2# Neil: Yeh it does, thank you for that, it is good to have an explanation of that so Dianne, can you talk about what you enjoy most about what you do? #00:21:02-0# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: Well I enjoy most, seeing people get results. I think everyone in business would say that. I enjoy seeing people get results, I enjoy something novel. You know always looking at something in a different way, and when I am coaching a client, what I really enjoy is the ability to be in the moment, and use all the faculties. So what I call the five natural faculties of mind, #00:21:35-9# Intent. Which creates. #00:21:37-6# Intuition. Which tunes in to when we see the genius that wakes up in the middle of the night. Eureka, I found the answer, you know the solution, that you could say is an intuitive connection, and we all are using intuition all the time, though not necessarily consciously, so the second faculty of mind, intuition. #00:22:01-0# Subtle energy. We are always, everything in life has an energetic to it, and when you attuned to it, you can use the energy if you are angry, you can transmute that energy, you can use it, I do this on the tennis court, when you get frustrated and I think, ok how can I use this energy to go to the next level in my tennis mastery? you can do this in business, so that’s the third natural faculty. #00:22:31-8# The fourth natural faculty is resonance. And also, it’s a scientific fact that everything that manifests physically, has a sympathetic resonance to it. And this is why the opera singer who sings above a certain range can crack the glass. So and why we say, you know ‘I resonate with that, I don’t resonate with that.’ And you can actually generate your own resonance when you understand the nature of it. #00:23:01-3# And then the fifth natural faculty is meditation. You know there’s all kind of things, mindfulness and leaders and Google’s doing it and they are teaching the children and yet this is a natural faculty that when we remain centred, especially with the changing you know, tumultuous world that we live in, when you can connect to that state within yourself, a walking, talking, living meditation, not just sitting down with your eyes closed. That you, what happens is you connect in to the intelligent field that surrounds us, and solutions will arise that you don’t would not otherwise connect to because there is too much static let’s say on the radio of your being. So it’s like, you know do you have two bars up on your cell phone, well we are still functioning, but if you have got five bars up, you are really in strong connectivity right? #00:24:07-8# Neil: Mmm hmmm #00:24:07-8# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: So it’s something like that, so that is what I enjoy, is being in the experience, of applying those natural faculties in the moment with my client. So that I can tune into, exactly what is next to have my client go to their next place in their what they are trying to create, in their business or in their vision for their business. #00:24:39-4# Neil: Ok, and what is it that drives you Dianne? #00:24:48-8# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: What drives me is that you know, sometimes I say Neil, it’s amazing the world works as well as it does, right? Despite that when you look in the news and you see so many problems and so what drives me is really what I know, is the higher nature of us as people. That people want to be great, that we are here to be great. That we are here, you know I have a chapter in ‘do you quantum think’ in part one, wake up. Why should we quantum think? And there is a chapter called mastery. Where I am talking about you know, how we love, we adore the masters, the greats in every sport, the moguls in business. The great humanitarians, and so why do we love those, and also the masters of religions, of the leaders of spiritual leaders. And what was the message they were giving us is that you are here to be a master in your own right. So what drives me, is knowing this. Like an inner conviction, maybe I was born with it. This inner knowing that every single one of us, is a genius, has unique qualities and trait’s, and proclivities and passions and that we are here to express that. And to give that gift, the gifts that we have been given, to give those gifts to the rest of the world in exchange of what we call the exchange of goods and services. And that is divinely inspired and that ‘how do we do it?’ because some people feel lost or they feel a lack of a sense of purpose. Or they cannot get past a certain stopping point in their business, or they reach a plateau and they think ‘how am I going to get beyond it?’ and then when the new things keep piling on in the world and the new discoveries, the new technologies, the new social media. #00:27:14-1# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: It’s like, what I know is that when you have a masterful relationship with your own mind or as I say the ‘unofficial official mantra of quantum thinking’ when you master your mind, you master your life because mind, this is the quantum paradigm from the science. Mind is the creative substance. And we all know all the books, ‘think and grow rich’ so many other people you know who have said, ‘everything begins in thought’, we all know this. And so when we can learn, to I say get in to make your mind your friend. Which is to learn these principles, which to understand the faculties of mind that we all have it and we are born to use it. Then creating anything becomes so much easier, because whatever you want to create in life, you have to know the dynamics of creation. So this is what drives me, is that I have been given that gift, and with deep gratitude the vehicle of putting out this knowledge, in this form that enables people to connect to it in themselves, so that they become masterful creators of their own results. That’s what drives me. #00:28:41-9# Neil: And how do you relax when you are not working in your business, and you are not quantum thinking and thinking of all this wonderful stuff? #00:28:53-5# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: I am always quantum thinking. Ha ha, because that just becomes integrated right? That’s like the walking, talking embodiment of wisdom, that we are each here for that. #00:29:01-4# Neil: Yeh. #00:29:01-4# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: But it’s not like the big pan of see ya, you know like it’s, it isn’t by the way like you are Paula Yan on a soap box, it’s like when something ‘crisis’ or set of circumstance which we are all confronted with, comes up that you are able to deal with it, from a more centred place, let me just say it like that. And so even in, you know I am in business with my husband, I will get to the relaxation, but I am in business with my husband. So a lot of people say, ‘how do you work with your spouse?’ actually we are going to be on a show next week, that invited us both to be on. Working, I forget the name of it, but to talk about that in particular and a lot of entrepreneurs do work with their spouses and some entrepreneurs, they should be working with their spouses, even if they are not because that is the greatest support. So let’s say that we have had to work things out and we still do, I mean we don’t see eye-to-eye on everything. So we could get into what I call our morning debate, and sometimes really an upset, because you have that additional layer of relationship where you are married. And so, but we are able to move through it, if I mean almost instantly like in five minutes, move through any kind of upset, and this is what happened, so the relaxation, what do we do for relaxation? Well we live on the beach in Miami Beach so we are very avid tennis players, we go to the beach. We live in a resort town, so there are lots of things always going on here and so spending time with family and friends, and I am on the board of directors with Alan, of this out beach .. ensemble music group, so we have fun doing that, and going to the music and helping to raise money for that. And so I am also on a few other things, underwriting at Florida International University in the programme in the study of spirituality, the Distinguished Speakers Series, so we have fun, you know. We have fun doing things like that at the same time, but I have to say that what I love to do, I like to create Instagram graphics, #00:31:46-9# Neil: Ok #00:31:46-9# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: I do, I like art and I was once a professional photographer and I call it my accidental career along the way, so about a month ago, I became obsessed with making Instagram graphics, and putting quantum think quotes on it. So come and follow me on Instagram, I need followers. Quantum think diva is my name, but I like really doing nothing and I think a lot of people have a really hard time with that. Like just sitting down in this beautiful, natural environment, and just my idea of relaxation is having no obligations and seeing what bubbles up, and that is what we do. #00:32:34-4# Neil: Ok. #00:32:35-4# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: So we have fun, we are having a good time. #00:32:38-5# Neil: Good and do you have any entrepreneurial role models? #00:32:44-5# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: Hmm, that’s a good question. Well I am going to say right now, and I don’t know that much about him but I am going to pick Damon John. Do you know who that is? #00:32:58-6# Neil: No I don’t. #00:33:04-3# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: He is the founder of Fubu clothing, and he is on Shark Tank on it’s an ABC television, based out of the United States show for entrepreneurs. And there are all these entrepreneurs, and he is majorly successful, and he has a new book out right now, I hope you are listening Damon, I am promoting you, called ‘The power of broke’ and I have not read it yet, but I am about to read it, and he interviewed a lot of different people, I heard him in an interview talking about it where, he interviewed people who were born into wealth and those who were born into poverty, and everything in between. And seeing how they were able to use whatever circumstances they had but the other reason that I named him, and there are many, you know people love Richard Branson, I do too. But when I had a couple of years ago, someone was doing awards in Miami for entrepreneurs, and he asked me to be the MC of it, to interview these people, and it was in a private setting with a group of investors. And I got to interview Damon John, and I knew that he was very very successful, and just sitting across the interview table with him, with the microphone and realising that he remained humble. He was just a you know, a purity of being, and integrity and just like a kind-hearted human being, who also wants to help others become successful too, so I would say him. #00:35:21-0# Neil: Ok and can we just talk about the time before you were an entrepreneur? Can you tell us what difficulties you had to overcome when you started your business? #00:35:30-8# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: Well I think really knowing what business I wanted to be in, it’s like how do you apply it? And many of the businesses today, have to do with intellectual property, but it’s not like, I think it was important for me. I knew there was a message, that I had to get out into the world and I knew that for whatever reason, that I had this ability that if you told me what result you wanted, whether you are a major corporation, you know executive whatever, entrepreneur. That I had the kind of thinking as one of my gifts to actually take you through it so that would be activated in you, and you would get the result. Because that is how I always start when we are consulting in doing a new programme or whatever with our clients. I always want to find out first, what do you really want? I mean that is really the bottom line of anything, is like really ‘what do you really want?’ And so for me, I knew I wanted that, to be able to have that gift of creating what it is you really want in life, other people to be able to activate that in other people and have a plan and a structure and principles, to see that through, not just be, ‘well that’s a good idea’ you know, take it from the realm of a good idea into an organised implementation. So I think it was really, I would not call it really an obstacle Neil, but I would say it was something that I had to think about. And because I work from ‘what do we really want?’ and I did that with my husband, we had another partner earlier in when we first started the company. But then we parted ways because we wanted to use technology, to replicate our work and he wanted to use higher consultants, like replicate through people, we wanted to replicate through technology, so I think that was an important thing too, is seeing ok, well unless we want to make that compatible, which we did not want to at the time, it was a great parting of the ways. #00:38:23-3# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: So I think it’s very very important, for anyone to know what do we really want? and when we looked at it, we created a strategic intent for our business. And this strategic intent, and remember from a quantum think perspective, intent is an activating force. And it is set in the present tense, so it’s guided but it is not like a specific, you put the measurable results that inside of the intent, so the strategic intent for our business is creating networked transformation for millions worldwide and it was double entendre all the way, so creating which meant creating, it could be us creating it, other people creating it, whatever, institutions creating it, creating networked and this is even before the internet really became you know, part of life. It was still new, so we did not even realise you know there were no social networks at the time, what network it meant, but we knew networking was an important principle of life, so creating networked transformation well yes, one of my Instagram’s is ‘I want the world to quantum think’ you know. On that campaign for a quantum thinking world, kinder, gentler, you know, more fun. #00:40:09-7# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: And so creating network transformation for millions worldwide and it meant millions of dollars and millions of people, that meant both. And that opens up, it brings to us many many opportunities, but in terms of ‘what do we want?’ and I think it is crucial, it’s vital for every entrepreneur, to connect to what you really want, and so when we looked at, ‘well how would we really have, what would be the highest leverage point?’ Since we did not want to hire a company of a lot of people, we outsource everything, because I worked in corporate life for 7 years for a fortune 50 company, prior to starting our own business, and I did have a lot of people report to me, you know and it was a big organisation, and so I had that experience, it was a great experience, I loved what I learned working in corporate life. However, I did not want to be in the situation of managing people at that level of actually having direct employees, so we do outsource every aspect of our business just about and so then when I looked at, ‘well how are we a two person business, going to have this transformation of thinking in the world?’ Then we looked at what were the highest leverage points? And so we deliberately chose to work with high visibility corporations. High visibility because they have a visible influence, and that if we could work with senior executives and managers in these companies, that through other people quantum thinking, through other people bringing that to their leadership, that is how we would scale up our business, it would be through other leaders and through high-leverage point leaders, so these are the kind of decisions that we made and we are still doing that, we branched out and because I loved, my book came out and I loved media, I loved being in the media. TV is really my dream, is to create a television series and so it’s working through institutions which we do and it is also working directly, in the conversational culture that we live in today and I love connecting with my readers, with we all do, on our Facebook pages, our linked in and so that is quantum thinking, is living in a both-end world that I think the main point that I want to leave people with is that when you really get in touch with what you are passionate about, what you really want, what is the best leverage point for you tp achieve what you want in your business? This is the starting point because that is the nature of intent and that will shape your actions, your decisions, and actually your conversations, how you speak and how you listen. #00:44:14-0# Neil: Ok and did you have any doubts that delayed you starting your business? # #00:44:19-0# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: No, I really did not, I would say that I think in the least action pathway, right? the way the energy or the thought goes, just because it has been that route before, of just being a human being that doubt sets it, you know, you have a vision for something, and the doubts will come and visit into your mind field and I think the important thing, so it’s not like I did not have doubts, I don’t have doubts, I don’t have those insecure moments. We all have that, I think it is a question of even those doubts, even those insecurities, those thoughts, those emotions you could call circumstances, so what I say in quantum thinking, there are circumstances and then there is ‘how you relate to those circumstances’ and it’s in that relationship, of you to your circumstance, where your power lies. And so, do I have doubts? Yes. Am I able to see it and interrupt it, and create a direction for my intent? yes. And of course Alan and I, my partner Alan have, we have fun doing it because sometimes I will voice my doubt, or what if this does not happen? or and he will just look at me and say, ‘well why would you want to plug into that reality?’ You know, why do you want to hang on to that reality? and knowing that the nature of reality is it is not fixed and static and absolute, it is energy influx and formed by intelligent. We are the focal points, we can direct it with our intent. I say, ‘oh yeh you are right, thanks’ so it is like that, when you have this set of distinctions, you are able to call upon them, in any moment of doubt, so and therefore the doubt does not become a stopping point. #00:46:44-Neil: And what mistakes did you make that slowed your journey? #00:46:58-6# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: I would say, let’s see I am sure I have made some. Ha ha but I would say this, that one of the mistakes that I think we made as a company, which actually did not slow my journey, you know it’s a funny think in quantum think, one of the distinctions in the 21 of the principles, is called the whole movement of purpose, and it has to do with distinguishing your purpose through looking at the patterning of your life. And how you do that Neil, is you, I say it like this, imagine your life is one whole story, you see because the industrial age world view was the age of machinery, parts, parts and separation. Cause and effect, press on that and that happens, so when we look at our career, or the development of our businesses or our journey in our life, in our work life, and we tend to see it compartmentalise. Well, I was in a corporation, but that was not it, but so I quit there and then I started my own business, and then that was not it so I quit there and then I became a holistic healer, whatever it is for anyone. When you are quantum thinking, we don’t think in parts in separation. #00:48:29-5# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: We see everything as a whole system, and that everything in your life when you look at your life, as one whole story, like a well-written novel or screenplay. There is nothing in it that does not belong, and there is nothing in it that is left out. Now of course, we continue to evolve and it’s more organic and alive, where a screenplay is but when you look at your life this way, the so-called mistakes become let’s say an activating point, to go beyond where you are now. So if I were going to say a mistake, in the early days of our company, we had a major corporation was our biggest client, that is brought in the most revenue, we did the most big company, we had offices all over the country, in the United States and we worked with a lot of managers and executives and let’s say it was 80% of our business. And then one day, that company got a new chairman, and the chairman said, ‘no more outside consultants’ it was temporary, actually that chairman turned out to be temporary but everyone we were working with, in this company said, ‘sorry, you know we have to end the business relationship.’ And so immediately, that ended 80% of our income, so I would say and you know that was distressing, as you could well imagine, and so the learning of it, was and we all know the expression you know, don’t put all your eggs in one basket, it was that, we were riding on that, and we really needed to be more diversified. And so that was a big lesson. #00:50:54-7# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: However, on the good side of it, on the looking from the whole of your purpose, that led me to actually create quantum think as a system of thinking. So I was delivering the work we were doing our consulting work, our workshops, within the companies, and it was with the seeds of quantum think that I had not quite distinguished it, I had not quite refined it to where it is now, which we trademarked in 1997. As an actual system of thinking a body of knowledge, and so probably and you cannot say what would have happened, you know with … but that quote mistake, actually had, it was a turning point for me because it tapped me on the shoulder, and when these kind of things happen, when a temporary failure, there is a distinction in quantum think called perspective of all perspectives. That when you are looking from the whole Neil, and you see that right now that something did not work in my business. Whatever it is, I mean that is what it was for us then, but whatever it is and it could be ‘wow I was doing, we were functioning this way’ or ‘I had this type of website’ and all of a sudden, the whole internet culture changed and now that website is ancient history. And you start to see ‘oh no’ or whatever it is, I gave maybe a too common of an example there, but whatever it is for you in your business, if you look at it in the very narrow vision, of this moment in time, then you might be limited, scared, doubtful about it, distressed but if you keep the perspective of all perspectives, and you see it as part of the unfolding of your business, that you are getting a message, you know what, if this happened, so now it is causing you to go beyond your current thinking, even if your current thinking was working, and you start to think in a new way, you start to explore other avenues, you start to go online and learn new things, you start to think, ‘well ok I did not do my tv series yet, well maybe I will do a blab series’ because now we have blab, we can do a show. So it’s like that, it creates and every mistake is an opportunity which is probably why I want to read Damon John’s book, ‘the power of broke’ because I think it is a similar principle where ok, you are broke and you know I love this quote which was from the movie director, now I cannot think of his name, it will come to me and he said, ‘I have been broke many times, but I have never been poor’. And when you think about that, ‘I have been broke many times, but I have never been poor’ that even when your cash flow goes to where obviously you do not want it to go, and maybe you are broke and maybe something happens. #00:54:40-8# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: But you are never poor, because you always have your inner resources, that no-one can take away from you, and now today we have so many outer resources, infinite outer resources, that you can always make a turning point, you can always create a quantum leap in your life. #00:55:13-0# Neil: And what are some of the things you did before you started your business? that would be helpful tips to some of the listeners who have not yet taken their first step on the entrepreneur way? #00:55:21-8# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: You mean things that I did in terms of what? #00:55:23-Neil: Anything, any tips that you have that might be useful for people who have not yet taken that transition from maybe leaving a job and setting up a business, or that kind of thing. #00:55:34-6# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: Well I think that if you can do it at the same time, I think it is a good idea and you know I have had clients who have been in that situation, where you are in one job or because you need the income, and at the same time, you want to pursue your passion. And when you are thinking from, when the old world view, the either or projection control world of the industrial age, where now we are in the quantum world of the both end. You know well, how can I have it work the whole thing? and I think that’s a very important tip is to make sure that you are always in a strong foundation. So, if you have work that’s giving you your income right now, and you can just start you know to formulate your business, to make sure that you have a good plan for it and everyone knows that a business plan is something that is a living breathing thing, so it’s always going to be flexible, it’s nothing set and so, but when you have a strong foundation for both your new business, and you have a strong foundation so that you are staying healthy financially in your life, so you are not having to worry because it’s very challenging to try to start something new, when if you are in a distressful point in your life, not that you can’t do it right? The power of broke, but I would say that to the extent that you can function in that both and here is the other thing, is that I see a problem that a lot of entrepreneurs have, and because you know we are all creative and we have a lot of ideas and one of my brother’s best friends who was an executive in the movie business, in Hollywood, California and you know what I was talking about, creating TV and he said, ‘you know ideas are a dime a dozen’ he said, ‘execution is everything’ and so we all have a lot of ideas. #00:58:21-3# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: I say and especially now, because I read the energies of the time and the energies of the time is one of those conditions I have talked about, where there is increasing complexity, there is so much and we want to be able to differentiate ourselves and be distinctive in the market place. Is that to really focus, you know like don’t try to do, you may have an idea for, I know I do all the time, because I have this unlimited creativity, but it’s like a gift and maybe not at the same time. You know, say something to me and I can create a whole business around it, but so you have a lot of ideas, and you want to be able to focus on what the priority is and have that work, and have the other things spin off of that. Be spin-offs, but what I find with many people, clients and friends, is that they are, what’s the word, I am trying to think of, they are diluting. They are success, the speed of their success, because they are trying to do too many things at once. So, even if you see, like an enterprise right? You see an enterprise, oh I am going to have a podcast and I am going to do this, this, that and the other thing, and I am going to make this product and then we are going to make promotional materials, and sell those and tee-shirts. #01:00:10-4# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: You may see all that, put it on paper, but focus on one thing. Have that be successful. #01:00:21-9# Neil: Ok, thank you. Can we talk about the entrepreneurial journey a little bit here now? And can you tell me, do you think culture is important from the beginning in a business? #01:00:30-9 #01:00:30-9# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: You mean the culture of the business itself? Absolutely, and you know this really has to do with mind and you know, one of the things that I talk about is that the company has a mind, and the mind is the culture, because it is all the different, you know, the attitudes, the patterns of thinking, the habit’s of thinking, that go on in the company, create the culture. And just as you can get in a conscious relationship, with your own individual mind, you can also have a conscious relationship with a company mind. And you can build around that, and let me just say something that if you go to my website, DianneCollins.com, and sign up for my newsletter. When you sign up, you will get a link to an article, it’s called; you can’t get there from here. And it’s all about applying quantum think to business, it has very specific examples, here is how the old world view, here is how the new world view quantum thinking in very specific things for entrepreneurs and for corporate life, but and companies love that article, but I just thought of it to offer it to people. That when you look at the idea of the company mind, you can look at the habits of your own company mind. You know, and how you do that, is you literally look at, listen to what is coming out of people’s mouths? What are they saying? #01:02:35-9# Neil: Mmm hmm #01:02:35-9# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: Oh there is too much competition, I don’t know whether we can do that this year, the economy is bad, you know, the different things that people say, ‘we tried that before and it never worked.’So when someone comes up with a novel idea, so the company mind is like the internet. Which is the mind of humanity, the infinite mind of humanity, the perfect metaphor for mind, because it is the good, the bad, the ugly and the sublime. And it is the same thing in a company culture, a business culture. You will have people who are excited about it, you know waking up, can’t wait to come to work, you have to force them to go home, you know if they are staying late, working late, and then you will have these other things as I said that these least action pathway habit’s, that are limiting thoughts. And these are the things that you can begin to distinguish, and you can start to consciously create as a company, with the people you are working with, with your partners, with your employees, you know, what intent do we want to be operating from? You know what is our intent for marketing? What is our statement of intent overall, as I said ‘we created our strategic intent.’ So I think the culture is shaping the opportunities that attract you, and it also is shaping the decisions and the actions that you take. #01:04:10-4# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: So yes, culture is very important and the great thing is that when you are doing your business consciously this way, and realising that culture is a reflection of the company mind. You can actually get in good relationships with the company mind and shape it yourself. #01:04:31-3# Neil: Dianne, that was a fantastic answer, I just love the concept that company has a mind and the mind is the culture, that is just beautiful thinking, thank you. Knowing what you know now, is there anything that if you had known it when you started out, would have helped you to shortcut the learning curve? #01:04:52-6# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: Well, I don’t know how to answer that question, but you know I am trying to reflect back. I do think that it is important to continue to be open, and sometimes you know we get set in our ways and I know I do. And yet someone else say to me, in fact we have an audio programme, which write it’s ‘quantum think audio coach’ which is in the next few months, it will be online, again. And so that is another reason to sign up to my newsletter because I don’t send out a lot of newsletters at the moment, but I will be informing you on what we are doing new and it’s going to be a great programme. The quickest way to quantum think of course I want everyone to read, ‘do you quantum think?’ But this is the quantum think audio coach and the ten fundamental quantum think distinctions. And it is Alan Collins and me, delivering them together and they are in the short oral form, about 20 minutes each, and so as you listen, it is coming in you know, it’s coming in multi-dimensionally. And the reason that I brought it up is that first I wanted to tell people about it because on one of the distinctions, I forget which one, I think it is ‘Infinite Possibility’ which is the third distinction. Thinking from infinite possibility and what prevents us from thinking from infinite possibility, or these least action pathways. #01:06:31-7# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: So one of my ‘least action pathways’ Alan and I were bantering about it on this recording, as I was explaining, I am an automatic ‘no’ and he is an automatic ‘yes’ so you say, ‘Alan do you want to?’ and before you have even got what it is, it’s like, ‘ok, yes right.’ And I am like, ‘whatever it is, no I don’t think so.’ So recognising my own least action pathway, and I am always looking at this, because we all want to do things, I want it my way, you know, not your way, my way. So when a suggestion comes to me from one of our associates, I have to then say to myself, I know I have that least action pathway. No, and then I know that this idea came to me for a reason, so maybe I won’t accept that idea exactly .. the way it was presented. But I always open myself to the possibility of it, as how can I use that idea? How can I satisfy what this person wants to contribute? and satisfy myself at the same time. So I think if anything, it’s that along the way. Then it’s again, it comes back to that distinction, success to mastery, where you can get caught up in your past base successes, not realising that they too can be a limit, and always be open to ‘well wait a minute let me listen to this from not knowing. Let me listen to this idea from not knowing, let me go beyond my No, and open to what is the possibility being presented. #01:08:41-7# Neil: Ok and how much does gut feeling influence your decisions in your business? #01:08:46-7# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: Well gut feeling, in do you quantum think and make a distinction, between and you know this is the method of quantum thinking. What I call the ‘art of distinguishing’ that is one of the principles. A new world view of learning, which is to bring something into your awareness, in the present moment, that it transforms your relationship to it. Past/present and future that is how transformation works. So, it’s not like collecting information and trying to remember it and then you know, apply it later, there are many things in life skills that we need that for, but this is different when you are in a creative entrepreneurial creation. So the art of distinguishing is very important, for leaders today and entrepreneurs because this is what gives you, a greater access to that which you are trying to accomplish. So I make a distinction between instance, intuition and intellect. Whereas intellect we know is using that mental thinking part of us, that you know where we use reason, which is important, they are all important. Intuition where sometimes people use intuition and gut right? What’s the gut? I look at the gut more like instinct, but it can be both instinct and intuition. So I think most successful people use what you would say gut to a great extent, but you have to use all three, because that is when you can really ground what you are doing. #01:10:49-1# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: So you can get a gut feeling on something, and then that guides you I would call instinct. Intuition is actually tuning into information that comes to you, that is not obvious, that is not an obvious cause and effect. Intuition, tuning it into what in science it’s called non-local mind, the mind that is not local to you, so you are getting information, you are pulling it in, from the surrounding quantum field. That’s intuition, and that can come in many forms, it can come as words in your head, it can come in a feeling in your body, it can come as just an outright knowing that’s how I have mine usually. It can come in many ways and intuition can be something happens in the outer world. You know a little girl comes up to you, passing by on the street and says one sentence, and you think, ‘oh that was meant for me, to pull in that message.’ And then instinct is where it’s just bam, you know. You are feeling it like I know I should invest over here, and then you use the other, the intellect, the intuition to ground that instinct, but I think instinct is a very important guiding what you are calling gut, a very very important guiding force because we are multi-dimensional beings. So there are distinctions in us, you know mind, body, spirit however you want it to distinguish, but they are all inter-connected, and what we could say the mind, body intelligence, that is a very important intelligence, so when you get that gut, that is something to pay attention to. #01:12:49-1# Neil: Wow, what an answer, that’s fantastic. Dianne, life is made of constant change whether we like it or not, and some would say the only constant is change. How do you try to keep up with change? #01:13:05-1# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: Well this is what I have been talking about really the whole time, is that when you realise that the nature of life is change, energy influx, that means it is always shifting and changing, informed by intelligence, where we get to focus the energy of it. It’s not an issue, that’s how I deal with it. I don’t consider change an issue, I consider it of ‘oh great, I get to make a conscious choice of how I want to deal with it.’ So in quantum thinking we say, obviously we are in this time of a great transition for humanity and the earth and things coming together in many ways. Great and terrific and terrifying at the same time, there are three ways you can be with the changes. The first way is you can stick your head in the sand and think ‘oh well hopefully things will go back to the way they were.’ Which is obviously not a thinking person’s way, and that probably won’t happen. The second way you can deal with the changes is that you can watch the changes as they are coming and adapt to them. Which is ok, that is a rational way of dealing with it, and the third way is you can know that we are in a time of change and become a force yourself, in the way the change goes, become a force in the direction. And that is really what I like to think that we are all as entrepreneurs here to do, is that we are bringing who we are, our gifts, our talents, our passion. To become a force in creating the world collectively, how we want it to be, and doing that through what we do individually. #01:15:19-7# Neil: And what is your favourite book on entrepreneurialism, business, personal development, leadership or motivation? And can you tell us why you have chosen it? #01:15:31-9# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: Well I want to choose the book I have not read yet, the power of broke by Damon John, because I have listened to his show, I knew you were going to ask that question Neil. And it’s so hard to pick a book and I look at some of the business books that I have on my shelf and I think, ‘you know I should really throw those out.’ And they are not that old because things change so quickly, so I am going to pick the future, the book I have not read yet. #01:16:05-7# Neil: Well you are the only person who has picked a book they have not read. #01:16:10-5# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: The power of broke, I know that’s turning in, I know I like that thought. #01:16:14-1# Neil: Yeh but you mentioned think and grow rich earlier, which is obviously a classic, which many people talk about. But there must be some books that you have read in the past that just stand out in your mind or some of the thinking in there has just affected you in some way or other and you still apply it. Has it not? # #01:16:31-9# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: Well, let me think, I like a lot of the what is considered the prosperity books. And these all-time prosperity thinkers, but there is one that I love, by Catherine Ponder. She has a lot of books that I can’t think of the name of the one that I probably have sitting on my table right now, that I just find her writing, it’s said so simply, you know like going into these principles. The principles of mind and consciousness. But she writes it in such an inspiring way, and then she gives the story you know, examples of you know, this woman was broke and then she thought this. And then you know, you have to be careful about some of these things, because this is where people start to call this, ‘thought creates reality’ wooh wooh and it’s la la land, and they don’t know what they are talking about, you know mostly because we are still victimised I would say. It’s a good culture, they buy the industrial world view, and they are thinking where we have like a limited container for thinking, and a lot of people who are not yet familiar with in the past 100 years, how the cutting edge science has discovered over and over again, that the mind to mind, and mind to matter influences in connections are real. And so because we don’t learn that, we have not yet, I am saying it’s changing now, in conventional educational system where we study what? The physical, the brain, the connection of the brain, the connections maybe in the brain, but we are not learning these natural faculties of mind, like what we are talking about here. #01:18:47-7# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: And the power of thought, so when I say you have to be careful because thought creates reality, is not a cause and effect dynamic. It’s not like push on this and that moves. It’s not mechanical. So it’s not like, ‘oh I had an intention but it did not work, therefore this whole body of knowledge is you know, false.’ It does not work that way, you have to understand that a dynamic of mind works like a field effect, and it works like planting a seed. You plant a seed of a tree and then you start to see the sapling grow, so you have an idea, you have an intent. It starts to grow and then you have to take the action, of nourishing that idea. So that seed, that is going to bring about opportunities, that intent is going to bring up opportunities. So one is you have to be focused on what opportunities, so one is you have to be focused on what opportunities are coming your way because if you are not, you could miss it, you know? #01:20:06-5# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: Somebody comes to you and they say, you know I really need someone to come and speak in my company on marketing online in 2016 and it was not in your plan so you are ignoring it. Not realising that that was a function of your intent, you attracted that in, you connected that in. And then you have to nurture these opportunities, so I do love those books because they are inspiring, and they get right in a very simple way to the heart of the matter. #01:20:49-4# Neil: Ok, thank you Dianne. Everyone, when you have a busy life, listening to audio books is a great way to expand your knowledge in the time when you may be doing other things, such as driving or when you are at the gym. We have a special offer for you of a free audio book of your choosing, to choose your free audio book, go to www.freeaudiobookoffer.com. As long as you have not already signed up, then you will qualify, Dianne what I would like to do now is just speculate about a few things in the future. So, what one thing would you do with your business if you knew that you could not fail? #01:21:26-6# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: I would have quantum think distinctions be part of apple watch, and I would create an entertaining television series, that totally expands the world view of everyone but in an entertaining way. Actually I am thinking about working on that right now, but something like a high-bred reality show but anyway, that is what I would do. #01:22:06-3# Neil: Ok, and what skill if you were excellent at it, would help you the most to double your business? #01:22:11-7# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: To double my business? If I were excellent at it? Marketing. #01:22:19-6# Neil: Ok. And #01:22:28-3# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: In a word. #01:22:28-3# Neil: Ok, it’s the shortest answer you have given me. In five years from now, if a well-known business publication was publishing an article on your business, after talking to your customers and suppliers, what would you like it to say? #01:22:46-0# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: I would like it to say that my business is a perfect illustration of quantum thinking. And it has been a great catalyst for people around the world and companies around the world to be successful. #01:23:21-5# Neil: Ok, we are now at the part of the show where you share three golden nuggets with us so, Dianne, what is your favourite quote and how have you applied it? #01:23:34-2# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: One of my favourite quotes is from Henry Ford, the American Industrialist, who bought about automobiles to the world. He said, ‘if you think you can, or if you think you can’t, you are probably right.’ And that really says it all, right? And that is in a concise nutshell the power of thinking, and the power of choice that we have. How to see what we are capable of, and what we want, and to see it happening or not, and that is the power of thought. So obviously, you know my business is based on that. #01:24:34Neil: Ok, so that is how you have applied it then in your business, I suppose that is true yeh? So do you have any favourite online resources that you can share with us? #01:24:40-2# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: Let’s well I, you mean resources like apps and things like that? #01:24:56-5# Neil: Websites, anything you use, I mean it could be something as generic as google or it could be something obscure that nobody has heard before, or anything in between. #0 #01:25:13-4# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: I like, there are so many things I like. Well right now I like Instagram. I would give you an app that I love. It’s called Over, and it’s an app for creating your own graphics, and that’s what I use to create my graphics with because I am not a graphic designer, but I do like beauty and art, and I have been a photographic artist, in one of my past lives and my current life. So I love this little programme, over because it just gives you the opportunity to use your own photos, they give you access to other photos, and to use typography and it’s very flexible in a tiny little app, I think it only cost £399. OVER. #01:26:16-1# Neil: Ok, thank you for that, and what is your best advice to other entrepreneurs? #01:26:24-1# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: My best advice is to live fully dimensionally, that is to look at all aspects of what makes a business successful, and it always really begins with what you really want and what you are passionate about. And to be able to distinguish what it is, your talents and gifts and what you are here to give to the world, and when you start there, and then you start to look at every aspect of the business, from creating the vision for it, the mission, the values, that part of it, that people used to think of as soft, that very very important to the administration of it, to the financial aspect obviously without that working, nothing works, and to really have fun with it, that’s my best advice is to see it fully dimensionally as a whole, think of yourself. Even if you are a solopreneur, I do this with my clients to see yourself as the enterprise right? The Neil Ball enterprise, and then you start to look at all the aspects that make up your business in your life, so that you can live an integrated fully dimensional life. And to most of all advice is remember to enjoy it, and it’s not just a memory, it’s like you know what, I could have fun with this, even when you know you are under pressure to get something done and you have timelines and all these other things and people waiting for you, or you are waiting for a somebody to outsource to finish up something to you. Or you need an idea and it’s not coming to you immediately. It’s all part of it, and it’s all for us to hear be enjoying that which we do. #0 #01:28:28-5# Neil: Thank you. Everyone if you did not manage to get a note of Dianne’s favourite resource, or her favourite books then you can find the links on Dianne’s show notes page. Just go to theentrepreneurway.com or search for Dianne or Dianne Collins in the search box. Dianne is there anything else that you would like to add about your business? #01:28:47-4# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: Well I would like to say I really am excited about our upcoming new online streaming programme, because it’s going to be something like a quantum think community, where you can learn to quantum think immediately, we were producing these audios, the quantum think audio coach we call it, the ten-chord distinctions. We were actually I produced it originally as an audio streaming but it was way ahead of it’s time, people were still on dial up and we never marketed it. And now years later everyone thinks it’s so relevant, so we produced it afterwards as a cd, which we are not going to be doing anymore, and you can actually get it on Amazon right now quantum think audio coach as a cd, but on the website that we are producing for it, it’s going to have a lot of different supplementary materials to it and Alan and I are going to be doing once a month the live Q & A coaching teleconference call for anyone who has that product. And we will be doing a live coaching programme using those audios for coaches and consultants, so no matter what business you are in, we will be doing that so I am really excited about that Neil, and again just so that you can stay up to date with it, please do go to DianneCollins.com sign up for the newsletter, and read the article that you will get the link to. You can’t get there from here, get excited about that for your own business and then I will be in touch with you that way, or you can come to my Facebook fan page, for do you quantum think? and I can be in touch with you that way too, but to sign up for the newsletter is of course much better and I will inform you as these things unfold. #01:31:00-Neil: Thank you Dianne. #01:31:02-2# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: Thank you for letting me share that. #01:31:02-2# Neil: Dianne you have absolutely delivered so much value to us tonight it has been absolutely fantastic. So thank you very much, you have certainly given everybody a lot to think about, and I love your thinking, and just this whole idea of quantum thinking it’s just awesome, so thank you for sharing that with us and thank you for coming on the show. #01:31:26-2# Dianne Collins Co-founder of QuantumThink: Oh my pleasure, thank you so much. #01:31:28-2# Neil: You are welcome. 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