Are you tired of seeing and hearing about people who are doing extraordinary things while you continue to sit at the same desk answering the same questions and going home to watch the same televisions shows? They’re the ones with all the amazing stories; full of life where everything seems to be awesome. Meanwhile, you get more bitter, frustrated and cynical. What you need is a shot of big thinking. Big thinking is exactly what that – big thoughts or ideas, that seem outrageous and crazy. They’re the type of ideas that you currently preclude with the words, ‘if only’. Those two words have to be the saddest words in the English language when combined together, so lets never use them again.

Right now your thinking is small or medium at best. The thoughts are mostly about how to get out of your current situation, how you just need one thing to make it all better and it’s not even a big thing. Yet you don’t seem to take the action because it’s too much work or so minor that you’ll get to it later, or you don’t believe it will actually help. Then there’s the daydreaming, those thoughts that swirl around your head as you sit at your desk counting down the minutes until you go home. This isn’t the existence you were dreaming of as a young kid, but hope, much like your teen acne has mostly faded.

Lets bring the hope rushing back with some big thinking. Since the small and medium things seem tough to do, let’s jump right to the big things and do them first. You might think that’s crazy, but as humans we are more likely to do things, which we deem to have low negative and immediate consequences. And because these big thoughts seem so outrageous we are not as attached to their outcome, and thus more likely to do them. For instance, a big thought would be to get an interview with your favorite author or celebrity, getting hired as a back up dancer for Lady Gaga or exhibiting your photographs in New York.

Make a list of your most outrageous desires, things that you have no idea how to make occur, stuff you are so afraid to do that you actually aren’t scared because you don’t think it will ever happen. This list must be authentic to you and won’t work if it’s just silly stuff. Take the list and pick the 3^rd one and do it right now. Start making some calls, search Google and send some emails. If you’re honest and authentic in your queries you’ll be surprised at the results. If nothing occurs no harm no foul, simply take the 1^st one your list next week and do the same thing.

What will happen is you’ll get more progress on these big thoughts than you do on your small and medium ones and the momentum and exhilaration you experience while working on hitting grand slams will make the singles and doubles easier to achieve. Big thinking will open your world to more possibilities, in doing so improve the quality of your life.

Live Extraordinary!

James