Thinking Big

I'm going to make a statement that I would bet you agree with. Here's the statement: Great spirit has always encountered violent opposition from small thinkers.

During the past 25 years I have had the opportunity to personally interview and study thousands successful men and women. Through my experiences I have learned what winners have that others don't. Winners are creative, imaginative, and they don't give up when others oppose their ideas. They are people how have learned to swim upstream, against the current of popular opinion.

If you are a reader of this Blog, you are one of those winners. You are taking steps to learn how to better apply the principles of success. You are a person who knows and finds a better way to do things.

You are a person who has the answer to a perplexing problem that has plagued others for far too long, and you're one who has often been rejected by others in powerful positions. It's a feeling that is shared by successful people in virtually every endeavor.

It isn't easy to go where none have gone before. The frustration of breaking new ground, of making something happen that has never happened before is sometimes too much to handle, even for the strongest people. Sometimes the frustration is simply too great and those who would have been winners, had they stayed the course, gave up too soon.

My advice on the subject is to power through. Ignore the naysayers! Excuse them for being small thinkers. Consider for a minute where we would be as a society without big thinkers. Without new concepts and new ways of doing things, we'd probably still be lighting our houses with candles. We'd probably be riding on horses and in carriages for transportation.

Negative people can always find a reason why an idea won't work. When you experience opposition from those who think small, take comfort in the knowledge that great success is something that is achieved by a very small minority. Those who always follow the opinion of the masses never achieve greatness in anything they do, but they do find great joy in trying to discredit your good ideas.

I find it curious that the negative and small thinking people, who because of their lack of trust, attempt to stop the big thinking people from making their great accomplishments. That's why surging ahead when you meet up with negative and small thinking people is so important.

Remember this: Your ideas are as good as anyone else's, but ideas are just dust under a rug, unless you mine and develop them for all they are worth, by surging ahead.