Chad Schapiro: DREAM BIG

I want to encourage you not to limit your vision in any way. Let it be as big as it is. Dave Liniger, the CEO of RE/MAX, the country's largest real estate company said, "Always dream big dreams. Big dreams attract big people." General Wesley Clark recently said, "It doesn't take any more energy to create a big dream than it does to create a little one." My experience is that one of the few differences between the superachievers and the rest of the world is that the superachievers simply dream bigger. John F. Kennedy dreamed of putting a man on the moon. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of a country free of prejudice and injustice. Bill Gates dreams of a world in which every home has a computer that is connected to the Internet. Buckminster Fuller dreamed of a world where everybody had access to electrical power.


These high achievers see the world from a whole different perspective — as a place where amazing things can happen, where billions of lives can be improved, where new technology can change the way we live, and where the world's resources can be leveraged for the greatest possible mutual gain. They believe anything is possible, and they believe they have an integral part in creating it.

HOW DO YOU AND I DO SOMETHING BIG??

You accept yourself for the person you are, with good points and bad points, with strengths and weaknesses, and with the normal problems of a human being. When you develop the ability on a conscious level to stand back and look at yourself honestly, and to admit to others that you may not be perfect but you’re all you’ve got, you start to enjoy a heightened sense of self-acceptance.

Do An Inventory of Your Accomplishments
A valuable exercise for developing higher levels of self-acceptance involves doing an inventory of yourself. In doing this inventory, your job is to maximize the positive and minimize the negative. Think of your unique talents and abilities. Think of your core skills, the things that you do exceptionally well that account for your success in your profession and in your personal life right now. List all of them and take nothing for granted. You are an amazing person and now is the time go focus on those incredible parts that make you you.

Think About Your Future
Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind.

We are doing incredible life changing things and you are a GIGANTIC PART OF THAT!! DREAM BIG!!