A common problem we often face is to ask the right questions. When you are developing something, you want to know if you are really going where you want to go.

Here are some examples of people asking the wrong questions:

  • what do I have to do to increase my cash flow?
  • why I don't get more service requests? 
  • how can I make more sales of this product?
  • how will I stop being invisible?
  • how can I have more visitors to this site?
  • how we can have more users?
  • why there isn't more volunteers joining this movement?
  • why I can't get more votes?
  • what do I have to do in order to have my work more appreciated?

Those questions can be valid as conversation starters but the thing is they have the divergence problem. They make people to be out of focus. They will not only make conversations to get off topic, they will make efforts and resources to be off topic.

What makes those questions to be the wrong ones to pay attention at, is to ask them without attending this one:

Am I thinking big?

Like... really? 

Okay, this is a more explicit version:

Am I thinking big enough?

Not asking that question will almost guarantee smaller results. Everything made without answering that one, with abundant peace of mind, will only dilute efforts and results.

If things were already not okay when those questions appeared, then smaller can't be good. 

You don't want that. Nobody needs you pursuing that.

What you want is a "bigger by design" version of your efforts.

That means you want to be small, efficient and fast but always thinking big. That way you will be making things that won't be designed to compromise greatness. Things that aren't designed in ways that forbids them to be great.

Then, if it's that important, how do you know when you are thinking big?

You know you are thinking big when your activities make others to be better.

If you are not offering something that is bigger than you, then you are restricting your possibilities too much. 

If whatever you do is incompatible to that, then you need to start all over and redesign it.

You need to do it that way because you need attention. The natural barrier is that, life's default is that nobody will care about what you are doing and is not going to be easier to get the benefit of the doubt.

But the good news is that you can take what you are really good at and do something about it. Never think that nobody is needing the valuable things you can do. There is more money, energy and people than ever in the Earth's history.

Please be cool by making someone better.