I’m Bigger Than You

Generally I hate it when people exaggerate. More often than not the simple truth is much more fun. But in some cases you need to stretch the the imagination just a bit. Most comedians use exaggerations to make us laugh. Sales professionals almost never give straight facts. They exaggerate in order to close the deal. We love the story of an exaggeration, especially when it comes to goods or services we have purchased. No one wants to think the new HDTV they purchases from a sweet talking big box salesman is not the top of the line (at least for the time being and at the price paid).

Imagine for a moment your goals, your dreams. Are they exaggerated enough. Have you expanded your potential horizon to the point if forces you to grow, to think outside of the box. I’m not talking about just a little bigger but substantially bigger. What if you made a thousand times the money you are planning? What if the number of people you hope to influence grew a thousand times what you are expecting.

Now what if what you are expecting, that exaggerated dream, never materialized? What if you where off significantly, instead of a thousand percent increase in funds you only hit three-hundred percent. What if you only reached five-hundred percent of the lives you were aiming for? Would these shortcomings be failures?

If you never dream big you will never hit big goals. Unfortunately the downside to reaching for Bigger and bigger goals is occasionally you miss. If the goal is big enough even a seeming failure will launch you hurtling toward your big dream at break-neck speed.