296 - Are you thinking big enough?

Yesterday, @Daniel Abrahams posted a short but memorable post about the signs everyone had reminding them to turn off their computers before midnight 12.31.1999.

To me, it was a great reminder, and analogy of how we don't think big enough.

Computer programmers in the 60s-70s didn't think the programs would last until the turn of the century. They weren't thinking big enough.

I'm sure there was a time when Jeff Bezos, Sir Richard Branson and, Elon Musk sat in wonder at the idea of going into space.

Yet, they are all shooting for Mars and it's clear to us now that they may easily reach the moon.

Far fetched, we say. It's that fear of change, the unknown, and failure that holds most of us back.

Not so for pioneers. They know how to think big.

When I was in college, a hundred years ago, one of my classmates quit after the first year to go learn about computer programming. To be exact, it was 1974.

We all thought he was crazy. Why would anyone do that?

There's no future in it, our small, limited brains said.

He went on to work somewhere in the Pentagon at a level so deep we never heard from him again.

He was a big thinker.

When we sit down to write goals, we often find ourselves blocked from thinking big enough.

We think we are looking at Mount Everest when it's really the foothills of the Blueridge Mountains.

THINK BIGGER! PLAN BIGGER! Then break it down, step by step.

Remember the goal is never the goal. It's the resting point of the next leg of the journey.

For whatever it is you want to accomplish, the most important thing you can do is write it down.

Write it down. Study it. Break it down and make it happen.

But, before you begin, make sure you are thinking big enough.

Are you thinking big enough?

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