How to Think Bigger: Aim Higher, Get More Motivated, and Accomplish Big Things

by Martin Meadows

watching or reading news. People who surround you have a much stronger impact on your behavior, including whether you’re ambitious or avoid any challenges. Fortunately, we can choose what examples we allow in our lives. The first and most easily accessible source of the right examples is books. Many successful people (Peter Diamandis, Tony Robbins, and Tim Ferriss, to name a few4)

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People who discourage you from setting big goals decrease your motivation more effectively than empowering people increase it. If you have ever shared a big goal with someone and she told you, “Get real, you’ll never achieve it,” you probably understand how much more

British billionaire Richard Branson, when asked about his secret of productivity, gave a surprisingly simple answer: “Work out.7” It’s his physical wellness that keeps his brain sharp and his body ready to constantly travel all over the world, build new industry-changing businesses

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1. Things and people who surround you influence how ambitious you are. Reading books and surrounding yourself with other ambitious people are two of the most effective ways to light a fire in your belly. 2. Negative stimuli are more powerful at discouraging you than words of encouragement are at motivating you. Consequently, it’s crucial to avoid or eliminate from your life people whose behaviors and opinions put you down. 3. Physical wellness is one of the keys of people who think big. If you don’t have enough energy, you won’t have enough motivation to put your plans into action. Demand from yourself the best – both physically and mentally. 4. A sense of urgency is necessary if you want to act on your goals now instead of “someday.” Successful people don’t have time for small thinking because they want to make the most out of their time on

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