THE ACT OF THINKING BIG. (From a growing lady)
Thinking big May sound delusional but that’s the only way we can succeed in the chaos of life. Just like we believe in God and so it actively pushes us to pray and talk to him and seek his face, that’s how it is when we think big. When we think big we are giving ourselves a chance to experience more because we believe we can achieve more. We see an empty environment and think that it’s not empty. It’s a way of telling ourselves that I believe in you, that’s how we are able to seek more in ourselves.
Thinking big is not daydreaming or imagining a beautiful future, it’s a mental practice that allows us to take active control over our own life. Learning how to think big can shift us from being prisoners of our mind to finding freedom in our thoughts.
“The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief” David J. Schwartz
I don’t know about you but I’ve always seen myself as such a success. Even if everything is falling apart in my life, I’ll always say to myself. “Precious you are going to be the most successful woman anyone around you knows, you are a success, successful in your career, your businesses and all your relationships”. I am fully aware that I don’t know how I’ll get there but that can’t stop me from being that lady you’ll know that owns a Bentley and a Maybach.
Life has a way of sucking out people’s joy. When we look around us we see how the circumstances we are subjected to have a way of affecting our way of thinking. For example if you are finding it difficult to finish a difficult work out, suddenly the future of a banging body you see, you no longer see yourself achieving it. If you are having it difficult in your workplace and maybe your boss tells you, you are not good enough or that you are lazy and unreliable so you start feeling unreliable and suddenly you feel stuck and don’t know if you would ever be as successful as you wish you would be.
Or maybe you’ve always wanted to remain in a city and all your dreams were centred in that city, all of a sudden everything you felt could work out or you would be able to manoeuvre suddenly starts working against you so you feel the need to move. If you are like me that writes down everything I dream to do or be, everything starts to look blurry so you suddenly feel stuck and you feel like your life can’t be meaningful because you are unable to make a decision or about to experience a change.
Your dreams would happen but you have to also understand that life happens and change is constant. Because your life ambitions and dreams are centred around a city and you feel the need move doesn’t stop your dreams from happening. Your dreams shouldn’t stop you from experiencing life. The world is big. Your dreams aren’t meant to limit you. They are there just like energy drinks to boost your strength.
Dreams aren’t meant to be understood. As a Christian, I am thought to always dream big. How can I believe in a God I don’t see, pray to him and see things work out exactly as I have asked and I am not able to apply that belief to my life? My Reverend would always say, “dream big and if the dreams don’t scare you, you are not dreaming enough”.
Our dreams are meant to push us. But to be Honest most of the time I feel stuck, unfulfilled and lost. Like I said In the beginning, life circumstances can be draining. Sometimes we have the smallest dreams and it seems like we are stuck, we are not doing the best we can, we don’t have the right amount of resources, we don’t feel smart enough. We have to remember that a lot of the most successful people in the world weren’t all that perfect. Everyone that has a success story went through a lot to get there. Most times we forget that we are in our book at the moment. This is the journey to a new era. This is the story to pile up your novel when you become a Billionaire.
Yes, I know it’s difficult to remember that when life is flipping us like pancakes in a hot pan. However, we have to remember that that’s where thinking big comes in. When we remember our dreams, all the things we desire to have or do, all the countries we haven’t visited, we would have more reasons to live and More reasons to experience life. That’s the power of dreaming big. It may seem ridiculous from the beginning but it reminds you of the things you have to live for. It reminds you of the pleasures you have ahead in a memory that would soon be experienced.
There is no said way or standard to achieving your dreams. Don’t assume that because you aren’t working out like you used to or like you want to automatically means you can’t achieve your body goals. What if your body already exercises from your daily activities enough and isn’t in the right frame for the kind of exercise you desire. Always give yourself time. Don’t think because you wrote down that you’ll own a mansion in a specific part of Abuja for example and all of a sudden you feel like moving away would prevent that.
I believe that our dreams are like a glimpse of our future that God shows to us. I had a conversation with my friend some weeks ago and we spoke about deja vu. I mean how do you explain that we have experiences where we see ourselves go through an event that seems familiar. There is no explaining it but it’s either we’ve lived our life’s before, or we are having a glimpse of the future.
See your dreams as visions. People complain about how God doesn’t show them anything yet when they have thoughts they start finding things to contradict these them. Your thoughts just don’t happen for a reason. The more you contradicting your dreams, the more you never become them. You have to learn to accept these things and even deliberately add to them.
What I do now is I call myself names and I call my friends names. I have this friend that actively says things like “I’ll be a senator don’t worry” “when I become senator”. I automatically know one of his dreams is to be a senator and I do these things where I help him manifest it. I saved his name starting with Sen… and every time I spoke to him I call him “my able senator” and he calls me Richest. Sounds ridiculous but I love it.
Life might seem so small now but always remember that the world is really big, Earth is really big, the universe is really big. Your small community doesn’t define you. Your job doesn’t define you. Anyone can move to a new country and suddenly own a different identity. Just dream big.
Write down your dreams and when you feel like you are lost and confused, read them aloud. Remind yourself of your dreams. Write them down. It’s ok to also adjust your dreams. If you wanted a dog and suddenly you prefer cats, adjust it. It’s ok.
This is coming from a girl who is also on a growing and glowing journey.
