Why Not Think Big?

10 Feb 2010 @ 10:24 PM

“As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
~Donald Trump, Real Estate Mogul~

Throughout my life I have been astonished by how small-minded most people become. They live in a world where something constantly is created out of seeming nothingness. Ideas nesting in a mind often whisper for actualization. Yet they remain blind and deaf to their hidden purpose in life.

It is tragic that all but a very few of us discard these divine whispering voices as delusional or totally unrealistic.

For example, let’s say I ask someone if they want to get rich. With a faint, whimsical, resigned-to-doom smile some will say, “Yeah, I’d like that.” Others will answer with false altruism, “Nah. Rich people are selfish and many of them are unhappy despite their wealth.” Still others will fall back on the standard refrain, “Rich people are lucky and fortunate. They get all the breaks and are usually born with a silver spoon. I am doomed to mediocrity. I gave up on being rich a long time ago.”

All of the above are guilty of small-mindedness which is, if left unchecked, a fatal disease of the soul. We all have 24 hours in a day and a chance to change our attitude and thrive. Our chances to think and act big are as infinite as the universe.

No matter how old, young, rich, poor, advantaged, disadvantaged, educated, ignorant, despised, loved, dysfunctional, functional, handsome, wretched, beautiful, homely, lucky or unlucky we believe we are is truly a matter of choice and consciousness.

No other human being – even one with a pistol pointing at our head and telling us to reveal all or die – can strip us of our dignity without our consent.

Recently, I was watching a video presentation by one of my mentors, Bob Proctor of “The Secret” fame. He suggested that he was humble, poor and shipwrecked in his early life.

Then one day he wrote down his ultimate goal in one, all-encompassing statement, put it in his breast pocket, looked at it throughout the day, and never went to sleep without expressing gratitude to his Maker.

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Thereafter, he added the most essential element which has led to his multimillion-dollar income for close 45 consecutive years. That element is living as if. It is not enough to want to be rich and successful; you’ve got to feel it in your bones. You need to hang around with eagle accomplishers and leave those complaining human turkeys to wallow in their desert of dry tears.

The honest truth is that your life is not predicated on approval of others; it is predicated on dreaming and doing on a massive scale.

If you are uninspired in what you do, then you are probably thinking small and feeling insignificant.

Instead, why not latch onto ideas and people in your life that fuel unbridled passion? If you want to do more, you will have to become more.

As another one of my mentors, the late Jim Rohn, has said: “Don’t aspire to be a millionaire simply because of the money and fame you can accumulate. Instead aspire for the good life because of the excitement of the journey and the personal growth you must experience to get where you want to go.”

False humility is often nothing but a cover up for failure. The truly humble are usually on top of the economic heap and don’t make you feel small because of their stature. The falsely humble use God, government, community, family, friends, circumstances, genetic deficiencies and a host of other lame excuses so that they can unashamedly and justifiably dwell in a sea of underachievement.

Why not choose to become big and truly humble as a result? Make the best of time allotted to you. Count your blessings and determine to find a solution to your adversities.

Spare us all any lame excuses inherent in the settling for far less than you deserve.

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Last Edit: 19 Feb 2010 @ 06:56 AM

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