Imagine facing an important career decision and not knowing what to do…Would you ever consider taking a poll? Not a poll in your family or with just your closest friends and confidants, but a poll of the general American public. Imagine finding yourself in a difficult marriage relationship…Wouldn’t it be smart to find out the opinion of how the general public would respond in a similar circumstance? Maybe your child is suffering from a serious illness…Wouldn’t it be helpful to take another poll so that you could come up with the best course of action? Imagine leading your entire life by following the advice promulgated by the pollsters…Could it be that the true path to success is following the opinions circulated through polling data. Maybe the whole idea of running your life around timeless principles is off base. Maybe, instead of asking yourself, “what is right or wrong”, in any given situation, you should instead take a representative sampling of the population and make a decision based on the results. Maybe, instead of asking “what’s the wise thing to do”, you should ask, “what would most people do”? So what drives your most important decisions? How do you make important decisions? What should drive our leader’s decisions? Reflect on what would happen to our country if our leaders did what the general population wanted them to do.  

Does it seem that the media is constantly telling us what we should believe: You are dissatisfied … You are getting even more dissatisfied … You are pessimistic… You’ve lost confidence…You’ve really lost confidence…You are in favor of this or that. Good grief! 

The antidote to this nonsense is, of course, to think for yourself! Anchor your future hopes and dreams in timeless principles. Take a stand on what’s most important in your life and the difference you intend to make in your lifetime. Then set some goals to make it all happen. Then consciously begin developing the beliefs that you must believe in order to develop your full potential. You are not born with beliefs. Beliefs are learned along the way. Refuse to let this happen by accident.  Instead, deliberately insulate yourself from the residual drip, drip of mediocrity that attempts to nudge all of away from our “A-Game” and into mediocrity. Refuse to be conditioned by what other think. Live by a much higher standard. Then take action and lots of it! And when you think for yourself, remember to THINK HUGE!