Big Thoughts: What the Impossible Looks Like

Start a tennis club. Become a millionaire.

That’s how the mind of a big thinker works.

Last week a friend asked for advice about his tennis club. They need to push out better marketing and attract more members so to make their club bigger. It was a simple question mostly pertaining to marketing and running the club better.

I did some research, looking online for pre-built tools that we could use. Honestly, I wasn’t able to find any that really were up to par with what I would expect from a SaaS provider in this field (or court, in this case).

And then it happened. My eyes glazed over and those magic wheels began cranking in the deep parts of my brain. I envisioned a way to bring together available parts today, and then using that momentum to piece by piece build a top performing system from scratch that could be implemented regionally, then nationally, and would include merchandise sales and many moving parts.

This is definitely a million dollar idea, and is the evidence that I’m a Big Thinker.

Some people call us dreamers. Some people hear our big ideas and think we’re crazy or that we’re some kind of Don Quixote, slashing at windmills. But stop a moment and think about where these big ideas can take you.

For the inexperienced, it can take practice to allow your mind to wander, and to think mega big. You must abandon practicality, reason, and most logic.

Once you have a big idea, let it drive you.

Big thoughts give you a destination and a purpose.

Thinking big gives you the wonderment of what the impossible might look like if you make it possible.

You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
– Alvin Toffler

Thinking big puts your mind in the right place to take advantage of the little opportunities that come along every single day.

The trick is to not get hung up on the big thought. It’s just one possible destination, an optimum outcome.

Knowing where the optimum destination is, it’s easier to make the small decisions and moves towards that destination, and if you move in the direction of success, you’re always moving in the right direction.

For those of us who think big, we know that most of the time our big ideas will never come to fruition. But fruition isn’t the point. The confidence that doing the impossible is possible is the point, and knowing the best steps to make that happen is the point.

So what’s the successful recipe for these big thoughts?

Think Big, Start Small, and Act Now.