If you look at the stories and experiences of successful and renowned people such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson and many others like them, you will realize that to achieve big, you have got to think and dream big first.
Why Dream Big
Dreaming big is important if you want to achieve something great. If your goal is to manage your routine expenses and stay within a certain budget, you will find yourself achieving only that. If that’s now how you wish to live, want to unleash your true and full potential and want to achieve everything you set your eyes on, you need to dream big.
When you dream big and believe in those dreams, you convince your subconscious that those dreams are your reality. Your faith along with the vibration of thought brews a strong concoction that brings similar positive experiences towards you and helps you manifest all your dreams. So you see, that’s the secret to make it big in the world- dream big.
That being said, many of us find it extremely difficult to think big and believe in our big dreams. First, we dare not to dream big and if somehow dream big, we fail to place our faith in them for we are sure we won’t manifest them.This is precisely what keeps us from accomplishing our goals. But why does this happen to us and how can we prevent this?
Why We Find it Difficult to Dream Big
Whenever we push ourselves to set big goals for ourselves, we somehow end up forfeiting those goals altogether or chop them down till they become extremely small and feel realistic enough to us. For instance, I want to become a millionaire but each time I convince myself to set this goal and believe in it, a pesky, little voice inside me keeps telling me the goal is unrealistic and impossible to achieve.
I have been meaning to set this goal for a few months but every time I think of it, I let go of it because of the inner critic nesting sneakily inside me. ‘I won’t be able to achieve this goal fast’, ‘How about I replace it with something small such as making a few thousand dollars’ and other similar limiting thoughts keep me from setting a big goal.
From quite a young age, many of us are taught to set realistic ideals and beliefs for ourselves and think only within a limit because the ones around are sure that setting big goals that seem unrealistic at first will get us nowhere. For instance, when my husband shared his dreams with his friends, most of them laughed at them because they seemed too big and good to be true.
The society makes us nurture limiting beliefs based on the norms and rules they have set. If it feels something is unachievable, it imposes it on us as well. When we are surrounded by people who find it hard to think and dream big themselves and make sure to shove their feelings down our throats, it is only but natural to become poisoned by that venom.
However, this is not how it should be.You should not allow anyone to limit you and restrict you to think and live a certain way. You should be the boss of your life and if you want to dream big, you should do that without doubting your dreams. If you want to achieve anything in your life and desire to live life a certain way, start dreaming big. Here are some things you can do to encourage yourself to do that.
How to Encourage Yourself to Dream Big
Dream big, start small, work hard, stay focused and keep going forward. - Anonymous
Dreaming big may seem difficult but you can certainly do that if you pay heed to the quote above.
Firstly, think of your most genuine desire and build a goal around it. Let it grow as big as you want even if it seems unrealistic. If you aim to become a billionaire, set that goal. If you wish to have your chain of bakeries around the globe, set that goal for yourself.
Since the big goal seems unrealistic at the moment, it is likely to overwhelm you making you feel stressed. As your stress increases, you are likely to find that goal impossible and are likely to quit its pursuit. To make sure that doesn’t happen to you this time around, chop down that goal into smaller, bite-sized pieces so you have lots of more doable steps in front of you. Doing that also provides you with a step by step plan on how to achieve your goal.
Now start working on the smaller steps and keep striving towards your goal with each passing day.
Never ever stop believing in your goal or change it if you feel truly passionate about. Just stay focused at it and keep moving forward to achieve it soon.
Throughout this time, make sure to talk very kindly and positively to yourself. Feed positive ideas to your mind to rewire it to think optimistically so you never stop believing in your dream.
If you consistently practice these steps, you are quite likely to keep thinking big and achieving your goals. I haven’t yet accomplished all my big goals yet but I have at least convinced myself to set big goals and believe in them so now I am dreaming big all the time.