I receive personal emails from the Universe a couple of times a week. I know, cool huh!
They are usually somewhere between two lines to a paragraph and they share some universal wisdom about life, love, health or wealth. They always seem to be spot on for what I need to hear at that moment or to be reminded of. I love them and I often ponder them for several minutes after reading the email.
To be honest, I actually receive the emails from Mike Dooley at www.tut.com – The Universe Talks. Mike has put together an awesome website and one of the features is the ability to sign up and get these little pearls of wisdom throughout the week.
Having a belief that everything is always divinely guided, I find these notes from the Universe fun and thought-provoking.
The other day, I was sitting at my desk noticing all the big plans that I have for my life and my business swirling around in my head. I had recently gotten home from holidays so was just starting to get clear again on moving forward and reaffirming the things that I want to create in my life. There were all sorts of things flying around: me speaking in front of 1000 people, working with more coaching clients, finding true love, being abundantly healthy and fit in time for summer and many others. At that point my computer chimes to signify the arrival of an email and there was my note from the Universe.
“Thinking big and acting small is the same as thinking small”.
Boom!
That one had to have some divine intervention going on!
I sat there and stared and this single line for about 5 minutes. It honestly felt like this message had been perfectly scripted for me and me only. It was the EXACT message that I needed to be reminded of in that moment.
I forgot to mention that while I was noticing all these big plans in my head, the little doubtful voice was whispering in my ear about whether or not I could actually achieve what I wanted to. There was some fear around my business goals and in one moment I was thinking big and in the next moment, was quickly diminishing the actions I could take so that I would feel safer. I was making the things I wanted smaller without even realising it.
“Thinking big and acting small is the same as thinking small”.
So many of us have wild and exciting dreams and big visions for our life, yet often that is all that they ever are, dreams and visions. It is easy to convince ourselves of why we do or don’t get what we want but the reality of it is that we don’t take big action to support our big thinking.
The distinction really is this, so often, big action isn’t what is required in that moment. All that is required in that moment is SOME action, ANY action, A SINGLE action. Just do something!! ACT!!!
The power of action, with repetition, will create momentum and once there is momentum the action becomes so much easier. It gathers speed and energy and then the actions start to take care of themselves because we are aligned with the vision. That is when big action is born.
Big action is doing the same task that is required over and over again. If you wanted to learn Chinese, big action is committing to an hour a day, six days a week to learning the language. Action is doing that hour today. Action is doing that hour tomorrow. Action is doing that hour the day after.
Big action is all those hours combined. Big action is commitment.
“Thinking big and acting small, is the same as thinking small”.
We belittle our dreams and our inspiration by simply not consistently acting in a way that will ensure they can come to fruition. Fear is so often not our friend: it is the main reason those splendid visions of our life remain a vision instead of a reality. Impatience is also not our friend. In today’s world, if it doesn’t happen fast and we don’t get immediate results we so often stop and give up.
This is not a fault of our big-thinking, this is a fault of our big action or lack thereof.
No matter how much thinking we do, no matter how big that thinking is, if the actions we take aren’t consistent and focused we really are thinking small.
Thank you Universe, a perfectly timed reminder as always.