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Hello and welcome back to the Elevated Edit Podcast.

I'm your host, Blakely Ramsey.

I hope you are all having an amazing 2025 so far.

Based on the interaction that I'm seeing on Threads, I feel like everyone started their new year on January 6th instead of starting it last Wednesday, which is totally understandable.

And if y'all are not on Threads, you need to get over there.

It is such a fun platform to part of and it's super engaging.

It's basically Twitter before Twitter became Twitter.

So I'll let y'all read in between the lines on that one.

It's just good energy.

I feel like everyone over there is in a good mood and very encouraging and uplifting.

And this episode is not sponsored by Threads.

It's just a really good app.

But over the last couple of days, I've had some time to reflect on 2024.

And when I was in 2024, I kind of felt like it was a year of things falling apart.

Like, I did not hit a lot of my revenue goals that I wanted to, and I didn't have a lot of the outward success and outward, like, goal hitting that I normally do.

And I told myself, okay, well this just wasn't your year to accomplish a lot.

But you, you know, worked through some things and kind of built a foundation.

But when I actually sat down and looked at my 2024, I realized that I had a huge year.

And yes, it didn't look that way necessarily externally, but I accidentally had a quantum leap year.

And before you were like, oh my gosh, this is so woo.

Like, she's done lost her mind.

This is not woo.

It's actually very biological, very scientific, and it's something that I have been reading about, like I said over the last year, and I had an accidental quantum leap year and my life completely changed and completely shifted.

And so in 2025, I want to have an intentional quantum leap year and I want to completely change my life again.

But instead of just kind of doing it nilly willy and not knowing what direction I'm going in or how exactly I'm going to get there, what exactly I'm doing.

I am wanting to take what I learned in 2024 and turn it into something really positive and encouraging in 2025.

And it just happened to coincide with something that my business coach wanted me to do.

And she wanted me to start a series on Instagram, some sort of series that will help me stay consistent every week on Instagram.

And originally I was like, okay, I' a episode every single day of 2025.

And she was like, remember, we're focusing on consistency in 2025.

So it's going to be a twice weekly series on a quantum leap year and what that looks like.

And when I started it yesterday, so the first part of the series is out, I realized that I am really good at podcasting because I can talk for 30 minutes about one thing, but I'm not necessarily good at fine tuning the little details and making it something that is 90 seconds, which is what I'm aiming for.

So.

And I know that people respond to content differently.

And so I was, when I was creating those scripts for.

For the Quantum Leap Year series on Instagram, I was like, what if somebody wants a little bit more?

And so that is what this podcast episode is about, is kind of to explain what the Instagram series is, what that looks like, where the idea came from, and what you can hope to get out of it.

If you choose to follow along, you definitely don't have to.

But if you are in a season where you are wanting to make a huge jump in life and not have to force yourself and hustle really hard and work all the time and get, you know, create imbalance in your life, then this series will be great for you.

And it's something that we can do together.

We can build a community around something that I think at least is very encouraging and very positive.

And briefly, I'm going to share my experience because y'all have probably heard about it enough.

And if this is the first time you're tuning in, go back and listen to some of the other episodes.

The last couple of weeks, I've definitely talked about things that I went through in 2024 and what my journey in 2024 looked like.

But now I am shifting and kind of moving forward to 2025.

So at the start of 2024, I knew something needed to change, but I wasn't exactly sure what it was.

I didn't have all the answers.

I certainly didn't have a perfect plan.

And that is how it became an accidental quantum leap year is I was just kind of running forward.

And I would like hit a wall, and then I would pivot and I would run again, and then I would hit a wall and pivot.

And I had absolutely no clue what I was doing, no clue where I was going.

I just followed.

I followed the Quantum Leap Year blueprint that I'm about to tell y'all about.

And it's very simple.

It's not anything overwhelming.

It's honestly common sense.

I just turned it into a blueprint that my brain could tangibly understand.

But in 2024, I was just kind of fumbling around and I accidentally changed my life.

I accidentally aligned myself with the opportunities that I wanted and the people that I wanted.

And so I'm wanting to take what I learned from 2024, where it was just like an accidental.

I have no clue what I'm doing, and I just happen to figure it out.

And I know that you can probably relate to that where there are situations that you're just going for it, and then you look up and you go, oh, wow, how did I accomplish all this?

Because I l had no clue what I was doing.

And I think there's a joy and a fun in that.

But I'm also really looking forward to being very intentional about my focus in 2025, now that I have developed focus through everything I went through in 2024.

So let's define the concept of a Quantum Leap year to get started.

A Quantum Leap year is not magic.

It is not instant success.

It is not a lack of effort.

It is about small aligned actions that create massive, disproportionate results.

So there is a book, I actually just started it, so I don't want to quote it too much, but another podcast that I listened to, she had just finished the book and that's what inspired me to read it.

And the book is 10x is easier than 2x.

So essentially it is easier for you to make a massive leap instead of just a step to the next step, if that makes any sense.

So to get from level one to level two, essentially you just need to work harder.

You need to put in more hours, you need to, you know, develop whatever it is that you need to do.

It's.

It's more of a more effort and more time involved.

But to get from 1x to 10x, you have to look at things differently and you really have to narrow your focus and narrow your time and you have to get really, really serious about things in your life.

And for me, that looked like not scrolling so much on social media, that looked like taking action even when things weren't perfect.

That looked like.

That's definitely been my big one.

It's definitely something that I struggle with.

Even creat that series yesterday, I mean, I literally cringed when I hit post because it's not what I envisioned it to be.

But I know that if I don't get started and just put things out there, I'll just keep delaying it forever, and then I'll never put out the bad content to create the good content.

But that is what a quantum leap year is.

You are changing things fundamentally about yourself.

So instead of changing just your output or just the time spent, you are fundamentally changing things within yourself so that you can make that quantum leap, so that you can get in the right rooms, you can get around the right people, you can read the right books, you can find the right podcast.

You can align yourself with that success that you are looking for.

And this is not about luck or manifestation without effort.

I don't really love the word manifestation.

I because I feel like mainstream thinks that you just think about what you want and then it'll come to you.

And for me, I feel like visualization works better where, like, if I get super clear on what I want, I can align myself with it.

And I just.

I don't really connect to manifestation.

If you do, I like Hoorah.

I love that for you.

It's just not something that I align with because fundamentally, for me, it just seems a little lazy, a little lack of effort.

And what this series about is about intentional growth through practical steps.

So here is what makes a quantum leap year different than a regular one.

You've got small, consistent actions that lead to massive growth.

So you're not having to work super hard.

You're not having to hustle and burn the midnight oil or whatever that phrase is.

You are taking small, consistent actions that lead to massive growth.

And I think that this is the hardest part for some people.

It is for me at times, because I do want to see instant changes.

I want to see instant growth.

I want to see instant revenue.

And to be disciplined enough to take small, consistent actions to lead to that massive growth can be very difficult.

And that's where this is simple but not easy.

You've got discomfort and uncertainty, which are necessary for change.

I don't know about y'all, but I feel like I have been in discomfort and uncertainty for the last six months at this point.

And I have committed to another really intense season of discomfort and uncertainty, essentially doing things that I don't necessarily want to do, that I don't feel comfortable doing that are way out of my comfort zone.

But I know in order to get to the next level, I have to put myself through those things.

I need exposure.

I need to make the fear not necessarily go away, because I don't think it ever will, but just expose myself to what I'm so fearful of and make it smaller and make it less impactful so that way I can be like, you know what?

I still feel like an imposter.

I'm still showing up, even though I don't necessarily want to.

And I don't feel super comfortable and great about this.

But each time I show up for myself and I stay disciplined, it kind of gives me like a little.

A tiny bit more confidence.

And that builds over time.

And then another characteristic of a Quantum Leap year is alignment that amplifies effort.

So you are not having to work as hard because you were aligning with what you want.

So you are aligning with the right people that are going to make things easier.

You are not aligning yourself with, oh, I've got to read 75 books.

You're aligning yourself with the one book that is going to create clarity.

You are aligning yourself with the one idea, the one person, whatever it is, that is going to make the leap easier for you through your Quantum Leap year, you're going to align yourself with that.

And it's.

It can look effortless to other people.

It's a lot of internal work that you have to do.

But this is where you see those big, massive shifts without having to really burn yourself out at the end of the day.

And I have experienced my fair share of burnout.

And I will tell y'all that growing in an aligned way versus growing in an effort, effortful in a way that requires a lot of effort.

I promise that I know grammar.

It's just sometimes when I get to rambling, words just come out.

And then I'm like, I'm pretty freaking sure that I made that up.

But that's the difference between a regular year and a Quantum Leap year is it's just more aligned.

It's.

There's more ease, there's more flow.

And you, at least in my experience, you are not having to waste your time as much doing things and chasing things that aren't actually going to get you where you are going.

So let's talk about a couple of the key habits that I've learned in 2024 that I plan to keep implementing in 2025.

And then we're also going to grow together, because like I said, this is obviously my first year that I have made an intentional quantum leap.

And I'm sure there's a ton of things that I'm going to learn and I'm going to take you along with me.

Follow along on Instagram for sure, and I might make this a series, a podcast series.

Like, maybe once a month we check in on this.

I don't know, y'all can give me some feedback.

If this is something that y'all are not interested in at all, let me know.

I am definitely open to feedback.

I.

This podcast is for you.

It's not just for me.

So tell me what you want.

If this is something that y'all want me to do once a month, I certainly will.

It would be fun, I think, for us to all check in with each other a couple of times, you know, a year when it comes to this through the podcast.

And this quantum leap does not have to be business related.

I should have said that at the beginning.

But this can be a quantum leap in your personal life, in your relationships and your knowledge and your creativity, whatever it is.

I feel like, once again, I accidentally quantum leaped in several different areas of my life last year.

And I think that might have been why I struggled so much, because there was so much change.

It wasn't just my business life, it was also my personal life.

So my relationships and my hobbies and my habits and what I read and what I listened to.

And yeah, it was.

It was an interesting year for sure.

But one of the things that really helped me was daily journaling.

I have told y'all that journaling is something that has been really powerful for me for a lot of years.

It lets me get my thoughts down on paper.

Because sometimes if I, like, everybody's like, oh, you need to, like, visualize and meditate.

I'm like, okay, that's cool.

But there's, like a thousand thoughts, like, pinging up in my head.

But when I'm journaling, I can actually get things down on paper.

And sometimes I really resist journaling because I'm like, I do not have 10 minutes to freaking sit down and write a freaking journal.

Like, who has time for that?

And I have noticed that when I do take the time to journal every day, I feel so much clearer.

I feel a lot better.

And I can usually answer some of the issues that I'm going through through journaling.

Like, the answer was already there.

I just needed to get it down on paper so that I could clearly see it and clearly focus on it.

And then consistency and small actions have kept me moving forward.

So my.

I've tried to not focus on.

I have to do everything, but I need to do the things that matter really well.

So I've done daily walks, I have read 10 pages daily, I have done my journaling, I have stepped away from to do lists.

You know, I did a whole episode about this and I have really simplified my systems and I have gotten super clear on what it is that I am wanting to do and I have ruthlessly eliminated everything that doesn't align with that.

Like I said, I've, you know, had to have some hard conversations with people over the last year as far as taking things off of my plate.

Organizations that I can no longer be a part of, groups that I can no longer be a part of, activities that I can no longer commit to.

And depending on how much you have on your plate, that can be really difficult.

I was the yes girl.

So I had a lot of things that I have had to go back and just say no to.

And it would have been a lot easier to say no when I was asked.

Like it's really awkward now.

A lot of the situations that I'm having to kind of slowly back out of.

I.

There's a lot of guilt around it and so I'm still processing all that I actually had.

One of the final things that I needed to get off of my plate happened yesterday and it was a very respectful conversation, you know, well wishes all around.

But it's still very awkward.

Especially, especially when it's something that I should have done a long time ago and I was too people pleasy to do it.

But that's the kind of like double edged sword of people pleasing is you end up letting people down if you're not living in your full truth.

But anyway, that was a whole aside squirrel.

But back to consistency.

That is what helped me the most in 2024 was telling myself like, okay, all of this is going to add up to something in 2024.

I had no clue what it was going to add up to in 2025.

I don't know what the exact finish line looks like, but I have a much clearer idea and I know what I need to be doing.

But those small consistent habits every day were truly what built up.

I don't think there was anything in 2024 that I did that I was like, okay, this one thing, this one day, this one effort was everything.

You know, there was nothing that really was that impactful.

Like maybe the day the podcast launched or the day that I launched the your magnetic brand course but there were like a thousand tiny micro steps that I was just really disciplined and consistent with that led up to that moment.

And so there really was nothing.

That was just that one big change.

And I think that is also different from what mainstream will tell you, is there's going to be that one defining moment and you're going to have that one thing.

All you have to do is find your one moment and it's like, no, that's not where the success lies.

It lies in the little, boring, little boring microhabits every single day.

So the Quantum Leap blueprint is what I talked about in the series yesterday, and that is going to kind of be the catalyst moving forward with this series over the course of this year.

And like I said, I know blueprints can sound super intimidating and really scary, but this one is not.

It's very simple.

But like I said at the beginning of this episode, just because it's simple doesn't mean that it is easy.

So step number one, clarity.

Define your boldest goal.

Ask yourself, what is one goal that really scares me but also excites me?

And write that down.

Tools to find clarity.

Once again, journaling prompts.

You can put these.

You can either do them off the top of your head or you can put it in ChatGPT.

I take journaling prompts and put it in Chat GPT all the time.

And I say, hey, can you align these with my goal of wanting to, you know, have a 10k revenue month?

Or can you align it with my goal of wanting to become a better storyteller or whatever it is?

And ChatGPT will take your idea and smooth it out, or they'll expand on it and then you can take their idea and you can expand on it even more.

So I am a huge advocate of using AI.

I think that, yeah, it's going to have its negatives for sure.

There's a lot of.

I mean, we're already seeing some of the issues come out and, you know, now they're having to implement new legislation to deal with all the AI.

I mean, it's.

We've got a wild storm ahead of us as far as AI, But I also think that there's so many benefits and I think using it in this way to really help take the thoughts in our brain and clarify them and then give us ideas to be even more creative.

I think the people that you use AI in that way are going to have an insanely clear and joyful and fruitful next couple of years.

And I certainly hope to be one of Those people on that train anyway, Journaling prompts and visualization exercises, I can help you with this as well.

This does not have to be some woo meditation.

You know, you.

You feel weird about it.

This can literally just be you setting down for two to three minutes and like visualizing what it is that your goal looks like.

If your goal is to declutter your kitchen, you can visualize what that looks like.

And getting yourself in the mindset of what your kitchen looks like already cleaned can help you figure out what you need to do to get there.

Like, I did the same way with my bathroom.

My bathroom is just so overwhelming to me.

And when I got clear on what I needed, I was like, okay, I need to order a shelf.

I need to buy three clear containers.

I need to like, I was like, it was.

I was able to get super clear because I allowed myself to visualize the end result and then I could take the action to get there.

It wasn't like this, oh, I'm going to manifest a clean bathroom.

And then I just open my eyes and expect my bathroom to be clean.

Like, no.

I visualized what the end result looks like and that allowed me to figure out what I needed to do in order to get there.

Step number two.

So step one was clarity, which is super important.

I have a lot of content and products and resources and services coming out in 2025 that are going to be focused around clarity.

I'm really excited about them.

It is something that lights me up and I can't wait to bring it to market for fully.

There's going to be resources all across the board from free, because I want things to be accessible for people who might just be starting out all the way up to really high level, high ticket services that I am crafting and working on.

And I am taking this quantum leap year blueprint and I'm implementing it in my own life, my own business.

And that is where these resources and ideas came from.

So really excited.

That's just a little teaser.

Teaser on that one.

So step number two is discipline.

Discipline is not punishment.

It is self love.

I feel like discipline's gotten a really bad rap and it can be the thing that changes everything for you.

Discipline is just what, what we need in order to get to that next level.

Discipline can be really boring.

It can be really unsexy.

It's not something true.

Discipline is usually not like the thing that you want to post on Instagram because you're showing up like, no makeup, hair in a mess, you know, every morning you're Working out, you're, you know, journaling, you're doing all the.

I'm taking courses and reading, and it's just like, oh, my goodness, am I going to do this every freaking day?

But then in, in a couple of months, you see the results and you see, see that the small consistency really added up.

And it helps your confidence.

It can obviously help your income.

All of the things.

Discipline is really the foundation for all of that.

And I'm going to go deeper into this in a later episode.

But systems are what make discipline easier.

So if you are just, like I said, manifesting and saying, okay, I want to be someone who wakes up and goes and walks 10,000 steps every morning, and you don't change the systems.

You just tell yourself that that's something that you want to do.

You're never going to get to that point.

Discipline and systems really help move you forward.

And a system can be simple.

Like, you make sure that you have clean socks and you like, I will stick my socks in the top of the shoe.

And sometimes I'll go walk in my pajamas.

Y'all see me at the smackover track looking like a ragamuffin.

But it's fine.

I'm walking, I'm disciplined, I'm consistent.

Sometimes I do forget that people that know me drive by and see me walking in my pajamas.

But it's okay.

I'm.

I'm moving my body and I'm.

I'm disciplined.

I'm showing up even when I don't really want to.

Those are usually the days that I'm in my pajamas or the days that I don't want to walk and I'm like, you know what?

I'm so cozy in these pants, so I'm just gonna leave them on.

And they're fairly cute.

I mean, I don't have any super ugly pajamas that I wear out in public, but I roll out of the bed and go to the truck.

No makeup, hair's not brushed.

I do brush my teeth before I roll out.

But yeah, it's definitely.

If you ever drive by the, the track and smack over and you never know what time I'm gonna be there.

It could be 4:30 or it could be 11:30, but you might see an interesting show.

The funny thing is, is the other people that show up and are disciplined, they also sometimes come in their pajamas.

So I don't know, maybe it's a small town thing.

I don't know if people do that in the big city.

We went to Austin a couple weeks ago, and I feel like everyone that was out, like walking and working out, they were like in their Lululemon and they were very like cute and chic workout.

And I'm not to that point yet.

And then step number three kind of builds on step number two with that is consistency.

The magic isn't in doing everything at once.

It is showing up daily.

You need to implement tiny microhabits that are going to allow you to have big growth over time.

There's no way out of consistency.

You just have to show up every single day.

Even if it's not perfect, even if it is terrible, just show up consistently.

I.

One of my listeners told me that of my podcast episodes had no audio at the end.

I had no clue if you'll ever hear anything wrong.

Just like shoot me a message and be like, hey, girl, you done messed something up.

I don't know what I did.

I guess I deleted half of the audio.

But I.

Even though things weren't perfect, I'm showing up consistently.

I am sticking to my word and doing what I told myself I was going to do.

And that consistency has definitely helped build confidence.

And the podcast is already opening doors.

The doors are kind of like slowly creaking open.

There's definitely no big doors that are flinging open yet.

But I'm only five months in and yeah, consistency is already paying off.

So like I said, those automatic habits that those small consistent steps every single day, that's where you're gonna see the big growth, the big change.

So clarity, discipline, consistency.

I told y'all it was going to be common sense.

I told y'all it was going to be simple, but it's not going to be easy.

But we're going to do it together because community matters in this.

Growth is easier when you're surrounded by people who get it.

And that's why I'm doing this series on Instagram, because I want a place for everyone to come and we'll all share actionable tips and behind the scenes updates and I'll show you all my progress in real time.

And then, like I said, if the podcast, if y'all want me to continue the series on the podcast, like I said, maybe once a month.

I've got a lot of really good content lined up for the next couple of months.

I don't want to interrupt that as much and do it weekly, but I could probably do once a month if that's something that interests y'all and we can all have our quantum leap year together.

Or if you are not sure if this is going to Be your Quantum leap year.

If this is your rest year, your chill year, your I don't want to do anything except for what I already have on my agenda year, then you can just wait, watch, and you can maybe Brainstorm for your 2027 Quantum Leap Year, your 2030 Quantum Leap Year, whenever you plan to do it.

And the Instagram series will kind of be like the inspired, accountable day to day.

And then if I continue the podcast series, it'll kind of be a deeper dive into what everything looks like.

And remember that a Quantum Leap year is all about clarity, discipline, discipline and consistency.

It is not about overnight success.

We are not instant gratification people.

We are patient and consistent and disciplined.

And we have clarity in our lives.

And all of this will allow us to show up daily and have alignment with our goals.

So at some point today or tomorrow, I want you to take five to 10 minutes and reflect on what you want from 2025 and reflect on what your quantum Leap year would look like, what is your goal, what is your clarity?

And then from there, what would discipline and consistency look like for you?

What are two to three things that might not be over the top, but that you can commit to doing every single day that are going to allow you to have that quantum Leap year?

Like I said, for me, it was walking every day, it was reading every day, it was journaling every day.

Those are not pivotal, over the top things that required a ton of effort.

And you know, it was, oh, it was all this stuff, but I was disciplined and clear and consistent, even though I didn't realize that's what I was doing in 2024.

Those are the things that I did every single day.

And they made a huge impact.

So think about what those things would be look like would look like for you.

They don't have to be complicated.

Keep it simple, keep it super simple.

And that's how we're going to make big impact and have a really big Quantum Leap year.

And if you want to follow along on Instagram, it will be on my personal page at the Blakely Ramsey.

Go on there and share your big goals.

Make sure to follow and then also subscribe to the podcast because like I said, not only aside from this series, if I continue it, but I've got a lot of really good content, a lot of really good guests lined up for 2025, and it's going to be a really exciting year of growth for the elevated edit.

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And then remember that 2025 is full of possibilities for all of us and we already have everything that we need to make it our quantum leap year.

So let's freaking go for it.

I will see y'all in the next episode.

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