Go small with your goals. Seventy five percent of people make at least one resolution a year, but a new survey found that respondents would rather kick off their goals gradually than jump in head first. Almost half of those surveyed also said they'd rather concentrate on long term goals, with twenty seven percent saying they wanted to focus on short term ones. So, Steve, you're a motivational speaker, you motivate people all the time. What do you think should people continue to make big resolutions at the first of the year or should they go small with their goals?
I disagree with that one thousand percent. I don't understand. There's no winning in small. There's no winning in small. I mean, look, what they're trying to say is but everything they're saying is preparing you for failure. It's assuming that ain't no need of you thinking big because you ain't gonna get big. That right, there is a negative connotation to me. You know, remember this, aim for the moon. In case you miss, you'll still be amongst the stars. But if you aiming for the fire hydrant and you miss, you down in the damn dirt. See, that's the problem with people passing out advice to people. I'm just against small thinking because it costs you no more to think big than it does to think small. If you say Volkswagon and Rose Royce, it don't take no more energy.
It's Volkswagon is Rose Royce.
Man, y'all, don't let people convince you to take the small approach, because then all you can ever get is small results. I'm just not a proponent of now. What they're trying to say is, don't disappoint yourself. Go to it and you don't get iteation because it's just so high. Back to me, I don't. I just don't like you manage your expectations. See now, look, either you don't be a person of faith or you ain't.
Give people advice though how to think big and how to not be not to hold themselves back with that type of thinking.
If you've never.
Okay, here's set that kind of goal for yourself.
You know what I mean.
Here's here's a deal. Here's something I learned, and I taught this to myself. It is impossible to think an impossible thought.
That's not possible.
It is possible to think an impossible thought.
Well, okay, okay, then how did you think it? Though?
If it's impossible, how did you think it? And that's what you've got to incorporate into your thinking. Man, it is impossible to think about you tell somebody man, I had this crazy idea.
Man, I don't see how.
I know you don't see how, but I'm telling you I saw it. And that's how imagination is given to you. And what we don't realize as people is that our imagination is given to us by God. God places what he has for you in your imagination. Albert Einstein once said, imagination is everything. It's the preview to life's coming attractions. That's just a fact. So what God does is he places the life he has for.
You in your imagination.
The problem we have is we tell our imagination to the wrong people, because if you want to kill a big dream, tell it to a small minded person.
And all of us have done that.
God has shown us something incredible in our imagination. We took it to our friends and loved ones and they shot it down. I don't see how you gonna do that. Well, I know you don't see it because God didn't show it to you. He showed it to me. And I'm gonna trust on that fact right there. If I thought small, there's no way I get here today. All you got to do is start thinking big. Does a book I recommend to everybody by David Schwartz David Schultz, The Magic of Thinking Big. Go buy that book. It's all written off. All self help books have written off concepts of the Bible. Anyway, A man is as he thinks. If you think you're small, you're fit to be small.
I love it all right, Thank you. You are a motivational speaker. Good morning. This is Shirley Strawberry and Tims. The season for happiness and love and giving and family, Happy Holidays from the Steve Harvey Morning Show