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Is your "right now" good enough? If it is, you're a fortunate person. But, unfortunately, most of us don't enjoy a current reality where we have everything we've ever desired.

A lot of us are looking for something more. It's not that our current situation is terrible. On the contrary, we appreciate what we have. It's just that we have big dreams and big plans. But unfortunately, we haven't figured out a way to turn them into realities.

Does that sound familiar?

It does for a lot of folks. So …

Getting involved in petty arguments will get you nowhere. It's a great way to stifle creativity and kill productivity. You see it happen in business meetings all the time.
One person pitches a specific approach. Someone else argues against that particular idea. Maybe a third person gets involved. An hour or more can be spent monopolizing the time of everyone in the room, and little progress is made.

Sometimes this is the way you come up with great ideas.

It's a great brainstorming tactic. You g…

Do you know anyone that went from a big dream to a big reality? You've undoubtedly heard stories about big achievers if you don't know anyone personally. Many of them had a big idea and nothing more.

There are endless stories about the biggest names in business, starting with little to no money. Then, they had to spend every waking hour working on their dream and looking for financial backers.

They eventually found success. The fact that they started with not much more than a thought didn't ma…

The next time you hear someone tell you to think big, look at it another way. Take the advice as a suggestion to think differently. Of course, two people may have different ideas about what thinking big means. Still, everyone understands having thoughts that are different from the norm.

When you think normal, typical and common thoughts, you'll create those realities. You have to think and act differently than you have in the past to create a different type of life.

You definitely don't want t…

Do you get tired of hearing people tell you that it's necessary to think big to create big results? Unfortunately, this advice seems to be everywhere. The stories of Walt Disney, Oprah Winfrey and others are offered as examples.

Those and other highly successful people started with little more than a big thought. They had an idea about what they wanted to create. In many of these examples, there are fewer resources in the beginning. Money is limited or not present at all. Nevertheless, a big id…

Do you engage in a lot of self-talk? Most of us do. It seems like our inner voice never stops talking. We can simultaneously contemplate a dozen possible results of an action we're thinking about taking. Most of the time, what our worrisome inner voice tells us will happen isn't a very pretty picture.

These are just thoughts, nothing more. Your inner thoughts are there to take care of you. They're a part of your ego. The ego part of your psyche is concerned with keeping you alive. So if you're …