--- title: The Power of Thinking Big description: Great thinking creates great results. Mediocre thinking creates mediocre results. It's not that people want too much, it's that they want too little. image: https://globalaction.ngo/hubfs/Power%20of%20the%20mind.jpg --- [![Global Action](https://globalaction.ngo/hubfs/Global%20Action.png)](https://globalaction.ngo) - [ABOUT US](https://globalaction.ngo/about-us) - [OUR CAUSE](https://globalaction.ngo/our-cause) - [WHERE WE WORK](https://globalaction.ngo/where-we-work) - [GET INVOLVED](https://globalaction.ngo/get-involved) - [BLOG](https://globalaction.ngo/en/blog) [SIGN UP](https://globalaction.ngo/subscribe) [DONATE HERE](https://globalaction.donorsupport.co/-/XMKXPCJD) The Encourager # The Power of Thinking Big Great thinking creates great results. Mediocre thinking creates mediocre results. It's not that people want too much, it's that they want too little. [Dwaine Lee, Founder, Global Action](https://globalaction.ngo/en/blog/author/dwaine-lee-founder-global-action) Feb 10, 2023 --- Hello my friends:   As I was reading this morning I thought this would be good for all.  It is an article by Mark Victor Hansen, co-author of the wildly successful Chicken Soup For The Soul series of books.  I trust you will enjoy it and it will be a blessing to your life.    Blessings, Dwaine E. Lee Global Action   [globalaction.ngo](https://globalaction.ngo)   By Mark Victor Hansen What you can conceptualize in your mind will materialize in your life. WOW! Think about that for a minute. Whatever you focus your powerful mind and energy on, will manifest itself into physical form. This has been going on your whole LIFE and you may not have even noticed it. Have you ever been on your way to a meeting and said, "There is no way I'm going to get this deal?" Then, sure enough, you didn't get the deal. You probably thought, "See, I knew I wasn't going to get that deal." You're right, you didn't stand a chance, because you had already created a self-fulfilling prophecy and declared that there was no way you were going to succeed. You have no one to blame but yourself. Failure was pre-conceived by you, through you, and out into the Universe. It simply gave you what you asked for! Your mind is that powerful. You don't even have to speak what you are thinking in order to see it come to fruition. Think of your mind as having the Universe on speed dial. It is THAT powerful. Because your mind is such an amazing instrument, you must use it with care. Remember, great thinking creates great results. Mediocre thinking creates mediocre results. Which do you want? Artists absolutely amaze me! They start with a blank canvas – not a splatter of color on it – and they create phenomenal masterpieces with just their minds, brushes and paint. How do they do it? How do they know what to paint? Before they ever picked up a brush they had already conceived in their minds exactly what they were going to paint. It is already there. Their job is to make sure that the artistic concept is transferred from the mind to the physical form. That's what I want you to learn to do – to conceptualize your dreams, whatever they may be, and change them from mental into physical. Because – just like an artistic masterpiece waiting for the artist to create it – your dreams are waiting for you to make them into your reality. We all have a calling. We all have a purpose in life. Not all of us are meant to be artists who paint on canvases, but we all have a gift. Sometimes it is presented to us early in our lives, and other times we realize our special gifts later, when we least expect. Take Mother Teresa, for example. She heard her calling in 1947 when she was already acting in service to God as a principal of a Catholic high school. At that point, she discovered her purpose in life and decided to live in the Calcutta slums with "the poorest of the poor." She knew what she wanted to do, what she had to do, and she did it. How do YOU do this? Well, just like Mother Teresa, before you can achieve it, you have to conceive it. The word "conceive" means "to cause to begin life; to form or develop in the mind; to understand; to put in words, to express." And that is the order that your dreams will be realized in. First, you conceive an idea, your dream or goal. The first moment that you decide that this thing – this goal, this dream – is what you want, it begins to live. "You feed your dream by thinking about it, turning it over and over in your mind. As you develop the idea you begin to understand it, to know what it is that you want – the thing that wants you. Once you express it by writing it down, putting it into words, it's like pouring fuel onto a fire. You have made a request from the Universe. After that your dream takes on a life of it's own. It's not that people want too much, it's that they want too little. ### GLOBAL ACTION MAKING A DIFFERENCE This post is from *The Encourager*, a series of over 100 emails from Global Action's founder, Dwaine Lee, originally sent between 2005-2010. Dwaine Lee passed away in 2021, but we believe the words of encouragement are still relevant today. The email above was first sent in March 2006.     --- ### INSPIRING QUOTES “And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.” Philippians 4:8 “Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.” Vince Lombardi “Optimism is a happiness magnet. 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