How “thinking big” is so useful as an entrepreneur

Before I really started to build my own company I read all this motivational literature about “thinking big”, and I thought it was a bit borderline BS…

It is not that I did not know about ambition or wanting (dreaming) to build big things, but I did not really understand what was meant.

Then I happened to read some books by Michael Port as I started my company and I found he really insisted on this concept. True enough when I looked at it with the eyes of an entrepreneur I understood that he meant looking at one’s creation taking into account from the onset, what shape it should have when it is big. Not limiting oneself by thinking ‘it’s just a one-man show operation at the moment and it should feel, smell and look like it, we’ll see later’.

So I worked on my vision for my company, on my niche, how I would like to grow it internationally with small consulting offices in many countries offering high-level advice. And even if it is a one-man show at the moment (and soon a two-men show) I have already taken into account this future growth in the way I organize things. My new partner’s external job title is ‘Manager South-East Asia’. Not that he’ll manage a lot yet. But because I am following my “think big” idea.

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The most amazing thing is by behaving as the head of a large consulting company, by having a “think big” approach to our website, documentation and intellectual property, people and clients do react as if we were really already a large, established company! And it just snowballs. We’re just a little kitten and they see the shape of the lion.

The way you believe in your dream shapes the way you behave and ultimately, how people react to it.

Believe big. When do you start?

Nice image by Babekha.