A Testimony to To Kicking Out Small Minding Thinking

Note from Kimanzi: This is a guest post from Jared Latigo who is a designer, father, husband, writer and speaker. He writes at JaredLatigo.com and tweets about business, passion and design at @JaredLatigo. He also really likes sandwiches If you would like to guest post on this blog, email a post to kimanzi@talesofwork.com

A recent post by Kimanzi himself revealed to me something that I was doing without even noticing it. And its been giving me some incredible results. I wanted to share one of those results with you and a few more tip to help you get rid of small-minded thinking.

A Few Notes To Start With

The premise behind this is that small-minded thinking will disable you from achieving the unthinkable. If we’re so locked into the mindset that we’re too small to contend with the big dogs, we’ll always be that way. Kimanzi points out in his video that one of his favorite quotes by Brendon Burchard is “Never let your small business keep you small-minded.” – Click to Tweet

He also refers to a time recently when he was thinking small-minded and letting that get in the way of his success. While I think it’s important to be semi-realistic, sometimes even that can hurt us.

From Where I Sit

I’m a huge minded thinker. I always have been. I believe in many of the things Seth Godin talks about in terms of the industrial revolution being over…he just beat me to the marketing of those ideas. So with that in mind, I’ve set out to gain traction as quickly as I can to get my ideas heard.

That involves thinking huge.

When I first started blogging just a couple of months ago, I did so because of Michael Hyatt. He’s a leadership professional and has recently published the book called Platform. This book talks about getting your business noticed and what it really takes to succeed in today’s market.

So what does this have to do with my story? Everything.

I set out on this journey and I don’t plan on turning back. My #1 goal at this point was to get a blog post published on MichaelHyatt.com. You have to understand that this guy has incredible readership well over the 300,000 mark each month and a social network follower base around 150K. So getting published on his blog is a big deal.

But I made it.

My first post will be published there at the end of November.

How Did I Do This?

I started with my ultimate goal. I started huge. I told myself that it could be done and it would be done. I didn’t let small-minded thinking take over but instead let larger than life thinking take control.

And really, it was easy. We just have to be intentional about it.

In fact, most things are easy when we’re intentional about them. It might take some practice. We may have a few train wrecks along the way…but ultimately, we’ll achieve what we need to if we put in the time and effort.

That’s the power of the American dream, right? So here’s a few steps to help you out.

Pray.
Forget boundaries.
 Get rid of the realistic.
 Set your ultimate goal and when you achieve that, set a bigger one.
Don’t get discouraged even if it takes you 200 times.
Pray some more.
Work really hard. There are no shortcuts.
Have perseverance. Remember to forget boundaries.

This honestly goes against pretty much everything in our society though. So that is probably your biggest task. Breaking the boundaries of your mindset is going to take some work. You’ll hear the negative voices in your head talking you out of it…but don’t give in. I tell you, don’t give in.

So there you have it.

Goal #1 accomplished. My next one is still under wraps to everyone except for me and my wife. But it will be achieved hopefully sooner rather than later. Get rid of small-minded thinking and you’ll succeed at whatever you want to.

Question: What goals have you set in the past that you met? Any that you are still working on? How about your mindset…does that need some serious work?

P.S. Dan Black will be moderating the comments while I’m away, thank you Dan!