“Five, Four, Three, Two, One, at the buzzer… Score!!” These words have probably been uttered in hundreds of languages by millions of children over the course of centuries. It’s the back yard triumph in which you envision yourself in the big game, with the fate of history resting on your shoulders, the enemy of time winding down, and finding a way to prevail in the most dramatic fashion. As we grow older we lose that. We lose that sense of vision, the big dream, the imagination. We get sucked into a world that we learn to be reality and get stuck in it without ever figuring out how to expand it. The way to build your reality into something larger is by continuing to think, talk, and act big.
Why can’t we take the same attitude we had at age seven, and apply it to our lives today? Why don’t we dream of landing the large account, or handing in the Pulitzer Prize winning column seconds before the deadline, or performing a successful organ transplant to save a life? That mentality can be applied to any field and could be the difference between stagnation and rapid advancement. This past weekend, a group of young women reassured me that thinking big isn’t just about a pipe dream you have growing up in your driveway. Watching the U.S. Women’s Soccer team defeat Brazil on Sunday (which by the way was a 10 on the goose bump scale) was a great reminder that larger, seemingly unrealistic levels can be achieved with focus and belief.
Here is a link to a great article about the team’s triumph on Sunday. http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6756058/a-summer-fairy-tale
