PODCAST #343:
WHY THINKING BIGGER IS SCARY BUT ABSOLUTELY LIFE-CHANGING 
Thinking bigger about what is possible in your life feels risky, but it's the most important thing you can dare to do. 

In this episode of The Confidence Podcast we're chatting about: 

How to even start thinking "bigger" and why you should do it
Why thinking bigger makes some of us freeze
5 ways to start thinking bigger


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HOW TO START THINKING BIGGER 
(AND WHY TO DO IT) 
Some quotes to get you inspired to think bigger: 
“Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.”

“Action cures fear.”
― David J. Schwartz,

“Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. Visualization adds value to everything. A big thinker always visualizes what can be done in the future. He isn't stuck with the present”
― David J. Schwartz,

“Look at things as they can be, not as they are.”
― David J. Schwartz,

“The point is this: Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others. To think big, we must use words and phrases that produce big, positive mental images.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

Starting to think bigger comes from deciding to. 
Dare to live as thing can be - with faith and optimism 
Decide that you want to be a person of significance, not simply success.

Significance comes from thinking bigger than oneself.
Book Recommendations:
The Magic of Thinking Big, by David J. Schwartz 

(1987, 6 million copies sold) > https://amzn.to/33EIVSb

Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny, by Tony Robbins > https://amzn.to/2KD95xs
WHY THINKING BIGGER MAKES US FREEZE 
Thinking bigger makes us freeze because it's

-vulnerable

-risky

-unknown

And it rises up thoughts and questions about

-our potential

-our power

-our worthiness

We freeze most frequently because we think "who am I to..."

We freeze because we are driven by comparison - either other people are more qualified and we write ourselves off, or we see other people as not having ambition and so we settle in for "good enough"

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who kn...