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You Are Probably Not Thinking Big Enough (How to Think Differently to Unlock Your True Potential)
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Step Outside Of Yourself
You can only change your mindset if you consistently care about your thought process. Start thinking big about your tasks and imagine how they can influence your world.
You should start thinking big without reservations or hesitation. You can only contribute more, learn more, become more and stretch yourself and your own abilities beyond their current limitations if you give yourself permission to think beyond the obvious.
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Be Curious
Don’t take things on face value, investigate their workings, assume nothing and question everything.
Start the curious habit of questioning everyday things and methods to get answers to questions you mostly ignore. Maintain an open mind and be willing to learn, unlearn and relearn.
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Start Shifting Your Perspective
Exercise your creativity by stimulating your brain with new things and not limiting your thoughts. Different skills, cultures and ideas can change your thought patterns for the better.
Give yourself time to consider the possibilities and to move in that direction.
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Barriers To Thinking And Acting Big
Thinking big requires stretching your imagination and expanding your personal potential, and that takes time and effort that will pay off throughout your life.
Fight against self-deprecation, procrastination, overanalyzing, making excuses and perfectionism.
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Your Obstacles Will Guide You
If you have something significant to share with the rest of the world, prepare to face criticisms, because people judge what they don’t understand.
Remember that you are not seeking approval. And the lack of it shouldn’t stop you from thinking and acting bigger to get closer to your life’s calling.
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"But What If I Fail?"
Fear can constrict you and coil you into a ball of small thoughts, decisions and actions. Fear of failure is universal and inevitable, but you don’t have to let it define you.
The more new situations you expose yourself to, the more opportunities you have to discover unknown aptitudes and the better you are able to tackle big challenges.
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Don’t Give Up
No matter how many mistakes you make, or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of those not trying.
You don’t always need the perfect plan. Sometimes you just need to give it a try, let go, and see what happens.
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From Small To Big Thinking
Great discoveries often evolve from small hunches, maturing and connecting to other ideas over time.
A single thought can also grow over time into a powerful habit of thinking big, and eventually, take over our minds and propel us to achieve our dreams.
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The Danger Of Tradition
Society conditions us to think small, to simplify and to expect less and demand less from life.
Mindlessly following tradition leaves our world open to be controlled by others or stagnation.
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Develop The Habit Of Thinking Big
... by trial and error and consistently analyzing things related to big ideas, until you've practiced enough your brain can easily establish unusual correlati...
Think Like a Child
The key to shifting your perspective and developing the habit of thinking big involves stepping outside of yourself and into another persona — essentially becoming someone who will help you see things bigger, better and more creatively.
You must also think from the perspective of having no limitations or fears and ask big questions persistently until the right answer comes to mind.
Barriers To Thinking Big
- Limiting habits: procrastination, immediatism, negative thinking, making excuses, solving insignificant problems, over-analyzing, perfectionism.
- People criticize and judge the unknown and big ideas are often so.
- Fears of failure and the unknown restrict us to small thoughts, decisions, and actions.
- Lack of time turns us into small thinkers and immediatists.
- Lack of incentives robs you of the motivation to stretch yourself emotionally or physically.
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Beliefs As Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
What you believe influences the way you interpret events, how you feel, and how you behave. And much of the time, those beliefs turn into self-fulfilling prophecies.
Give Up Self-Limiting Beliefs
- If you believe you're too socially awkward to make friends, ask yourself "What would I be doing if I were socially savvy?" Then, use a skill called, 'acting as if.' Act as if you were a socially savvy person.
- That doesn't mean you need to be a phony. Instead, behave in a way that brings out another side of your personality.
Challenging Your Beliefs Takes Time
It's likely that everyone has a few self-limiting beliefs.
To discover yours, spend some time thinking about your potential and assessing the assumptions you make about yourself that keep you from living your dreams.
It's likely that your beliefs, rather than your lack of ability, could be the biggest hurdle.
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Small Thinking And Big Thinking
Companies, teams and individual achievers are sharply focused on achieving goals. But this focus on completion often limits the scope of the results and stifles innovation.
There is a ...
Create Specified Time For Thinking
Set aside time to tackle a problem and then use the entire time. Don't head for the door after the first good idea, as there may be bigger and better ideas to come.
Encourage Outside Learning
Bring facilitation techniques to encourage participation.
By giving team members time and resources to grow, learn, and explore you get a better quality and wider brainstorming.