DMA Portland: Think Small!

Thinking small will change your life.

Let me explain.

Many of us have grand, elaborate visions. We have big dreams that we visualize. We want to change the world. We want to write bestsellers. We want to be super heroes. We want to end world hunger. We want to make millions.

We make all sorts of plans to take big actions.

Often those big actions never happen.

The big mistake is thinking that small action steps won’t make a difference.

It won’t matter if I miss the gym today.

Eating one doughnut won’t make me fat today.

One phone call won’t make me successful.

Spending $50 won’t affect my debt.

One lie won’t really make a difference in my relationship.

Not writing a page of my book today won’t harm.

Yet it’s those tiny action steps compounded over time that are the difference between success and failure. Those tiny things that you do when no one is watching has tremendous impact.

It’s not the big things you do once in a while, it’s the small things you do consistently that make the difference.

It might not seem to make a difference in the moment. But it is the series of moments that lead to the fulfillment of your destiny.. or not. The more consistent action you take, the luckier you might seem to get. Luck favors those that are consistent.

Rather than waiting to do your entire master plan, or take the massive action.

Think small.

That’s right. Think small.

The key is to take ONE action step in the direction of your dreams no matter how small it is.The first step in front of you is the best action step you can take. The power to your dreams is in the first step. The first step is often the hardest step to take, but the most powerful. And many of us do not take it.

Throw away your elaborate plans.

One small action step in the direction of your dreams is more powerful than any BEST big plan with no action. The first step may not be the most sexy or glamorous – picking up the phone, going to the gym, running one mile, sending an email, cleaning your desk, saying “I’m sorry.”

But it is the first step, which leads to the next step, and the momentum builds and you’ve taken 1,000 steps before you know it. In the fulfillment of your vision there aren’t 10,000 steps, there’s just ONE step… one step over and over and over again.

Many people sit around and wait. Waiting for the perfect sign, the perfect person, the perfect moment, the perfect tarot card… waiting is a waste of precious now. Waiting will get you no where unless waiting is the necessary step in front of you now. All the time you are waiting you could be taking action and moving towards manifesting your vision.

Stop waiting for stars to align. Stop waiting to do it perfectly. Stop waiting until you know everything you think you need to know. Stop waiting until you have healed yourself completely and become like Buddha.

Simply, start where you are, exactly as you are. Take the small action in front of you now and before you know it, you will be living the dream that you were dreaming about. And the dream will no longer be a dream but reality.

Size does matter.

Think small.

Act now.

-Kute Blackson

DMA Portland: Quote of the Day!

“See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.”

– Eckhart Tolle, German born best-selling author.

DMA Portland: Quote of the Day!

“According to A Course in Miracles, there are only two basic emotions: one is fear, the other is love. You may fear the disapproval of others. Take that risk and you’ll discover that you receive more approval when you don’t seek it than when you do. You may fear the unknown. Take that risk as well. Wander in there, asking yourself, “What is the worst thing that can happen if this doesn’t work out?” The truth is that you will just move beyond it. You’re not going to starve to death or be tortured if it doesn’t work out… Fear knocked at the door. Love answered and no one was there.”

 

– Wayne Dyer, page 29 from his book “10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace.” Dyer is a popular American self-help advocate, author and lecturer.

DMA Portland: Quote of the Day!

Change happens one day, one moment, one step at a time. It’s 10,000 small steps that add up to a big leap.

The good news is that all you need to do right now is take one step. The tough news is that there’s a BUNCH of these small steps that you need to take to make the transformation you are dreaming about a reality.

Sorry.

It’s not the best news in the world, but what’s rad is that all you need to do is focus on the next step. Not the third step, or the 100th step, just the next one.

Life is all about just putting one foot in front of the other and taking that step. That step is what it’s all about it. The NEXT one. I’m all about just doing the next step.
Mastin Kipp

DMA Portland: Quote of the Day!

“See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.”

– Eckhart Tolle, German born best-selling author.

DMA Portland: You Are in Control

I recently attended an event hosted by Goldman Sachs celebrating small businesses and entrepreneurs. The event consisted of a panel of successful business people who dished out some great advice for business – which I found totally applicable to life.  If you treated your life and your growth as an investment, just like you would a business, imagine the internal (and consequently external) success you would have.

Here are the top tips they shared along with my suggestions on how you translate this advice to the business of YOU.

1. Immerse yourself in learning. This is pretty obvious – the more you learn new things, the more equipped you are to let go and outgrow old patterns, beliefs and behaviors that aren’t serving you.
2. Work on your business instead of in it. When working on yourself, remember to be in a place of neutral observation and see yourself with some perspective instead of intense judgment. When you are too “in it”, meaning you are indulging in your story, it is impossible to get the altitude you need to create the shifts you want.
3. There will be adversity – you may do everything perfect and it has nothing to do with you. How we learn is through challenge and contrast.  Nobody gets the greatest cards all the time but we can do the greatest things with any hand we are dealt.  You are always doing the best you can and don’t take things personally!
4. Get pumped up but not delusional. It is awesome to get excited about your life and dreams. Just avoid traveling to fantasyland by placing unrealistic expectations on others or jumping to conclusions before you have information. And don’t buy into the number one delusion of them all: that anyone or anything outside of you can fulfill you.
5. How you will be judged is how you respond to adversity. The Uni-verse doesn’t judge you but on some level we could say that we’re “evaluated” on how well we are learning our life lessons by the way we respond to them.  The more we respond with acceptance and a willingness to choose love over fear, the more we attract what is more in alignment with who we truly are and what we truly want.
6. Listen to advice and implement it so your business grows.  It’s one thing to gather a lot of advice and guidance; it’s another thing to implement it. Awareness isn’t enough – integration is when major growth happens.
7. Don’t do it all on your own. Knowing when and whom to ask for help is critical for your success and over all well-being. No one does it alone.
8. Have a sense of optimism. Anything in the future we are making up so when you look ahead, make it good. Worry and pessimism is the imagination used poorly. Expect andTRUST that everything is and will happen for your Highest Good.

You are the COO (the chief operating officer) of your life.  You cannot control what happens, but you have total dominion over how you respond to what happens.

Christine Hassler

 

DMA Portland: Quote of the Day!

e waiting for you. All you have to do is walk up and declare yourself in. No need for permission. You just need courage to say, “Include me”. Providing you have the energy to pull it off you can do what you like. And the Universal Law, being impartial, will be only too delighted to deliver.”

– Stuart Wilde, is a British writer best known for his works on metaphysics and consciousness.

“It is through solving problems correctly that we grow spiritually.  We are never given a burden unless we have the capacity to overcome it.  If a great problem is set before you, this merely indicates that you have the great inner strength to solve a great problem.  There is never really anything to be discouraged about, because difficulties are opportunities for inner growth, and the greater the difficulty the greater the opportunity for growth.”

– Peace Pilgrim