I just finished a book, The Think Big Manifesto by Michael Port. He writes of the disease that millions of people each year fall victim to: A disease that cripples careers, destroys relationships, and undermines health and happiness of the entire world. Mr. Port maintains it is the disease responsible for poverty, crime, war, natural disasters (that's a stretch for me), and our economic ills (and vice-versa for me). It's called small thinking. 

I want to share with you some of the things that encouraged me to think in hopes that you will take the time to do the same. Share with me some of your answers to the ones that speak to you.

Think about what you stand for?

Why do you really do what you do?

"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." Who is your greatest enemy? You?

Control is an illusion. When we seek to control, it's because we fear the unknown, the out of control. What we fear is reality, because ultimately it can never be controlled.

What are your greatest strengths? Greatest weaknesses? How are they related? (Great interview question by the way).

To promise in comfort is not to promise.

To listen is to lead.

To be free, is to be bound by something bigger than yourself.

When we are truly following our heart, we need to trust that the dots will connect.

"If you live every day as if it were your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." Steve Jobs

There is truly more in the book but this is enough for now to get you thinking.

For me, I would re-name his thinking small to the Goliath syndrome. When David met Goliath everyone around him was thinking small. Not David, he reminded them when comparing this 9 foot, modern-day Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets, giant to God, he was nothing but a grasshopper compared to a box car.

I like that.

rb