The Mentor | #62 | Aspiration

Each month, I share 3 things I’ve read on skills, careers, and personal development.

“The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief.” — David J. Schwartz

Many people don’t think big enough. They’re anchored by the reasonable—the kind of goals that can be explained, defended, and managed. But the reasonable rarely inspire. Aspiration means aiming beyond what seems probable, beyond what others think is possible.

David Schwartz wrote in ‘The Magic of Thinking Big’ that belief sets the upper bound on achievement. Read that again: what you believe is the ceiling on what you can achieve.

If we only aspire to what feels safe, we stay small. But when we think unreasonably large, we open a different path: creating momentum and compounding possibilities.

Aspiration at its best is contagious. When you raise your own, you invite others to raise theirs. And when aspiration borders on obsession, it can reshape careers, teams, and companies. So, simple question: are you aspiring at the level of what’s reasonable—or beyond it?

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The high return activity of raising others aspirations.

High Returns

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Aspiration borders on obsession.

Obsession

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Mediocrity steals your attention.

Mediocrity