Comments on: Think Big, Act Small

By: Sonia Simone

Sonia Simone — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:22:43 +0000

What this brings out for me is that epic and huge are worth doing, and small and tiny and personal and intimate are worth doing, and they may dance together in all kinds of ways. It's medium and regular and ordinary and usual that need a long, cold look to see if they're worth doing. They have to (IMO) serve something either epic or tiny or both. Love the paradoxes in this, fun to play around with. Sonia Simones last blog post..Obey Me or Fail

By: David Cain

David Cain — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:14:37 +0000

I'm also a new subscriber after reading this post and the original Epic Shit post. Good blog, this one. I didn't always understand that Mother Teresa quote: "We can do no great things, only small things with great love." I thought she meant it was the only the small, intimate actions that matter. But now I see that life is nothing but small intimate things. We can't 'do' projects, we can only do their steps, tend to their details. David Cains last blog post..Protect Your Dreams From Contamination

By: Stephen - Rat Race Trap

Stephen - Rat Race Trap — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:39:14 +0000

I subscribed. You nailed it with think big take small steps. But you only have to take small steps if you can't figure out how to take a big step. So sometimes you actually can "Think Big. Act Big." Stephen - Rat Race Traps last blog post..How to be Successful by Taking Responsibility

By: Bill Riddell

Bill Riddell — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:44:05 +0000

Great stuff Charlie, I agree completely. Dream big and keep taking small steps till you reach your dream. I am a dreamer, I have a lot of major life goals. However over the past few years I have been tranisitioning to someone who makes those dreams come true. From those major goals for my life I break things down, I have goals for the year, plot out the major steps to achieve a few life goals at a time and begin making progress on them. I just watched a great interview with Alain Robert, the human spiderman who climbs the worlds biggest skyscrapers without any safety devices. Although Alain could not crystalize his process that well a fellow climber commented that it was simply to focus on each hand and foot hold, don't look down and don't look to far ahead until your reach the top - just keep slowly climbing up. Huge achievements do not come easily, its typically a successions of smaller steps taken to get there. The epic thinking is the inspiration, getting it done requires perspiration. Without it epic thinking is really just mental masturbation. Bill Riddells last blog post..My Ultimate Goals Revealed

By: Joely Black

Joely Black — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:20:27 +0000

I had assumed in your last post that your "epic" and "audacious" was entirely relative. After all, when I had depression it was audacious and epic just to get out of bed in the morning. Epic need not be huge in absolute terms, but huge in the context of its surroundings. It may well be quite small in fact. I've been meaning to write my own post about acting audaciously, which I see as having the courage to do something that you might not expect to do. To step beyond the bounds of the average in whatever small way that might mean. Joely Blacks last blog post..A lesson in dealing with anger