Beginning to Dream

Michael Hyatt wrote an article describing his journey of taking a struggling company from an “ash heap” to a place of success. He acknowledges his natural bent to think too small. He says, “Through the years, I had learned that if you think about strategy (the “how”) too early, it will actually inhibit your vision (the “what”) and block you from thinking as big as you need to think.”… “The problem is that people get stuck on the how. They don’t see how they could accomplish more, so they throttle back their vision, convinced that they must be “realistic.” Taking Hyatt’s advice, to dream big we need to discipline ourselves to focus more on the “what” instead of the “how.” The level of discipline to do so varies from person to person depending on their personality type. As an example, I have to be very disciplined because I am a strategic thinker. I have to resist the temptation to jump prematurely to strategy. People with personalities different from mine find it easier to focus on the “what” and avoid jumping to the “how.”