How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life pdfdrive com

4. Dream One Size Bigger
One of the best ways to cultivate a possibility mindset is to prompt yourself to
dream one size bigger than you normally do. Let’s face it: most people dream
too small. They don’t think big enough. Henry Curtis advises, “Make your plans
as fantastic as you like, because twenty-five years from now, they will seem
mediocre. Make your plans ten times as great as you first planned, and twenty-
five years from now you will wonder why you did not make them fifty times as
great.”
If you push yourself to dream more expansively, to imagine your organization
one size bigger, to make your goals at least a step beyond what makes you
comfortable, you will be forced to grow. And it will set you up to believe in
greater possibilities.

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5. Question the Status Quo
Most people want their lives to keep improving, yet they value peace and
stability at the same time. People often forget that you can’t improve and still
stay the same. Growth means change. Change requires challenging the status
quo. If you want greater possibilities, you can’t settle for what you have now.
When you become a possibility thinker, you will face many people who will
want you to give up your dreams and embrace the status quo. Achievers refuse
to accept the status quo.
As you begin to explore greater possibilities for yourself, your organization, or
your family—and others challenge you for it—take comfort in knowing that
right now
as you read this, other possibility thinkers across the country and
around the world are thinking about curing cancer, developing new energy
sources, feeding hungry people, and improving quality of life. They are
challenging the status quo against the odds—and you should, too.

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