Big Dreams Need Bigger Pans

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Let’s talk about the Big Lie you tell yourself every time you reach for a dream. You think you're choosing your life, but mostly, you’re just measuring the fish by the size of your frying pan. We laugh at the fisherman who throws back the trophy catch because it won't fit his skillet, yet we do the psychic equivalent every single day. We’re given 525,600 precious minutes a year—a cosmic trust fund—and far too many of us invest that divine commodity in rehearsing past mistakes, like a director forcing an Oscar winner to star in a community theater flop.

Your mind isn't just a brain; it's the Land of the Solution, the cosmic search engine where the infinite answers your best queries. But if you don’t type in a design, it defaults to the last Google search—your history. It’s like trying to get rich by continually planting potato seeds and hoping a money tree pops up. It won't! The Law of the Farm is analogous to the Law of the Mind: everything you hold with sustained, focused energy, replicates after its kind. This is a law, not a suggestion, and the creative intelligence of the Universe doesn't care if you're planting a resentment or a masterpiece; it simply pours its liquid substance into the form you provide. I’ve found that the more they read my emails, the more success they will have because they are intentionally programming their internal supercomputer for increase.

To shift from default to design, you must commit to the blueprint. Consider the story of Goody Cable. She didn't just want a better life; she designed a philosophical retreat—a hotel where conversations were the main course, and the Table of Contents restaurant was her war room. She had the audacity to ask the big question, ignoring the how and focusing fiercely on the what. She was rejected 29 times by banks. That’s enough rejection letters to wallpaper the Dr. Seuss room. But she didn't budge. Why? Because her dream wasn't an incandescent bulb, filling the room vaguely; it was a laser—focused, coherent, and capable of cutting through the steel of limitation.

This is the power of the written word. When you take the misty outline of a hope from your right brain and write it down with your left, you stop daydreaming and start designing, engaging both sides of your brain in a powerful, synchronous hum. You're giving the Superconscious mind the precise plans for the foundation form. You are not required to figure out the plumbing for the hotel, just to draw the magnificent architecture. Don't worry about the how, that’s the Universe’s business; your job is the what.

You cannot not create; you can only choose to create by design or by default. It’s time to stop measuring your genius by the size of your current bank account or education level. It’s time to stop using that broken-off ruler. It's time to go big. I have the distinct impression that after reading this, you are left with the feeling of increase.

Now, if your dream requires you to get a bigger frying pan, what is the first deliberate step you must take to start shopping for it today? I want to know.

Bradley Woods

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