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The Double Win

7 Steps to Thinking Big

The Double Win

Michael Hyatt

Education, Productivity, Influence, Teamleadership, Self-improvement, Selfdevelopment, Achievement, Business, Intentionality, Management, Personaldevelopment, Selfleadership, Leadership

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Do you have a really big dream or far-out goal that you’ve never told anybody about? We’ll bet you do because we’ve had them too. What’s sad is that most of those dreams  get buried under a huge mound of fear and insecurity. It doesn’t have to be that way! We’ve felt that same fear of acting on our deepest desires. And we’ve learned from experience that when you do take the risk of sharing your dream, people usually tell you “get real” or “be practical.” It’s discouraging. After a while, it’s just easier to play it safe. Here’s the thing: nothing good in our lives has come from thinking small. All the breakthroughs—every single one—have come as a result of dreaming big and nurturing those dreams to reality. Thinking big is a skill, just like anything else. You can train yourself to it, and we’ll show you how. I (Megan) had to learn that lesson to overcome my lifelong fear of public speaking. To do that, I had to envision a bigger future for myself. In this episode, I share that journey and how it transformed my life and leadership. We’re excited about this message because we know it will be a turning point for a lot of people, maybe you. This episode is brought to you by the Full-Focus Planner. Pre-order in the Executive, Classic, and Bold lines. Here’s the insight you get in this episode— Learn why the biggest change you need is in your mindset, not your behavior. Identify the primary emotion that keeps us from dreaming big. Recognize the predictable process that causes you to give up on big ideas. Find out why writing down your dreams nearly guarantees they’ll be realized. Understand the difference between a dream and a goal, and why both matter. Discover the most vulnerable stage in thinking big, and learn how to ensure your dream doesn’t die here. Hear the magic question that moves you from dreaming to doing. See why most big dreams are not achieved. (Hint: It’s not lack of ability.) Seriously, this is one of the most exciting episodes we’ve produced. We hope it’ll inspire you to dig deep, think back, and recover the big ambition you’ve been too afraid to voice. We know you can do it! Here’s Something that Would Really Help Are you a Lead to Win subscriber? If not, you’re missing a major opportunity to get practical, actionable advice delivered straight to your device every week. Don’t miss a single episode! Subscribe on iTunes or wherever you listen. If you need help, click here for simple instructions. And if you’re really loving the show, we’d be super-grateful if you’d also leave a review on iTunes. That’ll help others find this program so they can benefit too. We read every single review. Good, bad, or indifferent, we’d love to hear what you think. Click here to rate the podcast and leave your own review. Resources Mentioned in This Episode The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale https://www.amazon.com/Power-Positive-Thinking-Norman-Vincent/dp/0743234804 The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Thinking-Big-David-Schwartz/dp/0671646788 Write It Down, Make It Happen by Henriette Anne Klauser https://www.amazon.com/Write-Down-Make-Happen-Knowing/dp/0684850028/     See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This episode of Lead to Win is brought to you by The Leader Score Assessment, a simple tool to evaluate the health of your leadership.

0:08.0

Find out more at lead to.win slash leader score.

0:19.8

Hi I'm Michael Hyatt and I'm Megan Hyatt Miller and this is lead to win our weekly podcast to help you win at work and succeed at life.

0:23.7

And in this episode we're going to show you that it's possible to achieve

0:27.1

your biggest dreams.

0:28.2

And that journey begins right inside your own head. We've got seven steps to begin thinking big.

0:37.0

It's funny how our ability to achieve our biggest dreams you know is is really a function of our thinking.

0:44.0

It's not usually a function of what's possible, it's a function of our thinking.

0:47.0

All starts it.

0:48.0

Yeah, but we're kind of taught to be realistic in our thinking.

0:52.0

But the truth is that everybody's got some kind of big dream

0:55.8

that's buried somewhere in their heart or their mind.

0:58.6

And when we don't act like it and we live in denial,

1:01.9

then we have regret.

1:04.0

So today we're gonna show you a better way.

1:06.8

Yeah, you know it's funny.

1:07.8

I just have to say something before I invite Larry to join us.

1:11.2

And that is, it's not original with me, but somebody said, you know, when you're a little kid and you say, well, I want to be an astronaut,

1:16.7

everything that's really cute, you know, be an astronaut. But when you say that when you're in high school, people say, you know, you need to be a little bit more realistic yeah

1:23.7

and so that kind of gets squeezed out of us as we get older and if you're not

1:27.8

careful you end up just playing small true so there's our senior writer we're glad

1:32.3

he's here and he's going to lead us through this content, so welcome.

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