How Small is "Too Small"?

How small is "too small"?. In life, we make a lot of decisions and set goals like the kind of assets we want to own, places we want to go to, our physical appearance, the kind of relationships we want to have, what we do for fun, the type of job we want to have, our annual income, and milestones we want to achieve. Obviously while doing that, we are faced with the task of determining how much of that thing we would like to have, give, do, take, or accomplish.


 Knowing fully well that our decisions affect our future, then it's not enough to just set goals. Rather we should set goals that are challenging, that commands our thoughts, liberates our energy, inspire our hopes, goals that demands more from us, requires us to improve on ourself before they can be accomplished, goals that puts us on the edge of our comfort zone and push us towards what we want in our life.
 
   In other to achieve this, we must then ask ourselves some sincere personal questions like:
Do my goals feel creative enough?
Do they scare me?
Do they end up making me a better person at the end?
If our goals don’t feel creative, they’re probably too small and when they don't make us to think “How am I going to do that?” then they are probably too small and doesn't require much from us to achieve them and this kind of goals end up adding little or no significant improvement to our lives.

   Keeping your goals small keeps you small as well. Rathee than having small goals, set your sights just a bit higher than you think you should, and go for it! Improve on the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take. You have to decide to do more, aim for more, look for more information you need to be well prepared, put in more effort, listen more, study more, exercise more. Execute that plan with passion and enthusiasm. Decide how fast you want to go, how much you want to achieve; decide to write a better book, to score a higher grade, to give more, and to be more.

If you limit your choices only to what seem possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that Is left is a compromise. ~ Robert Fritz

   Everything you think, say, and do needs to become intentionally bigger and aligned with your purpose, and your goals. If you don't like your outcome, you have to change your response because if you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got. Do more of what is working, do less of what isn't, try new behaviors, set a bigger goal, take on a bigger task, dare to be more than you already are and stop settling for less than you want.

   You have to quit worrying what other people think and follow your heart, You have to quit worrying what challenges you'll face and prepare to overcome them, You have to quit worrying if anybody will ever believe in you and instead believe in yourself, you have to quit worrying if you are ever going to achieve that big goal and start working towards achieving it as well as believing that you can because that's what makes you a winner.

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. ~ Michelangelo

   Thoughts of failure, disease, loneliness and fear only push you into a behavior which leads you directly to fail, become ill, feel lonely and fearful. You shouldn't let fear keep you from walking around terrified of dying every moment of every day; you shouldn't let the fear of failure keep you from dreaming big dreams and setting bigger goals; you shouldn't let the fear of the unknown keep you from taking up new tasks; you shouldn't be limited to doing only things that seem possible.

   John F.Kennedy dreamed of putting a man on the moon. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of a country free of prejudice and injustice. Bill Gates dreams of a world in which every home has a computer that is connected to the Internet.

   When Monty Roberts, the author of The man who listens to horses was in high school, his teacher gave the class the assignment to write about what they wanted to do when they grow up. Monty wrote that he wanted to own his own 200-acre ranch and raise thoroughbred racehorses. His teacher gave him an F and explained that his dream was unrealistic because no boy who was living in a camper on the back of a pickup truck would ever be able to amass enough money to buy a ranch, purchase breeding stock, and pay the necessary salaries for ranch hands. When he offered Monty the chance of rewriting his paper for a higher grade, Monty told him, "You keep the F; I'm keeping my dream."
Today Monty's 154-acre flag is Up Farms in Solvang, California, raises thoroughbred racehorses and trains hundreds of horse trainers to train horses.

   Just as Bob Proctor- Self made millionaire, radio and TV personality, and success trainer once said "We come this way once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope that we get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams." So the next time you want to set a goal, write a book, seat for an exam, start a project, compete in a sport, give to charity, or simply gain/ lose weight, take a moment to sincerely ask yourself the question; how small is "too small"?.
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