Daniel Burrus, leading technology forecaster and strategist, thinks you are thinking too small.
No really, as he wrote at the Huffington Post, “However “big” you’re thinking right now, it’s probably too small.”
What does it mean to think big? It means “a dream that takes you farther than where you are today. ” And while that may seem vague to some of us, Burrus isn’t willing to tell us what success should mean to you. But what he is telling you to do is to “take your definition of success and raise the bar on it.”
Because “when you are thinking big, in reality you’re thinking small. There’s always a bigger big.”
So look for it. “Ask yourself, “What is even bigger than what I’m thinking, because that’s what I really want to do?” That’s how you raise the bar far higher on yourself.” And then, once you begin to see the big that is bigger than you thought, you begin to strategize. “Once you have the vision and ask the “What Would It Take” question, the path to get there becomes clear,” Burrus writes.
Through these questions, Burrus has dreamt of and then grown a worldwide platform for his book Flash Foresight. But it doesn’t end with books – “I’ve started six innovative companies, from experimental aircraft to smart phone and tablet apps, all without investors. Three were leaders in the U.S. in the first year.”
How much bigger can you get!?
You won’t know until you ask.
“So think big, and then realize you just thought small. Before doing your big thing, look at what is the bigger thing, and do that instead. When you do, you’ll find that your future will be far more amazing than your past, and even more amazing than you thought it would be.”
(read more at HuffPost)