#12 – Think BIG!

I’ve learned this from my mom.  She’s a tiny person but she always thinks big.  If she gets an idea in her head, she doesn’t do baby steps to the top, she takes a giant leap right up there.   There have been so many times since I started my business that out of the blue, she’ll look at me and say, “something big is going to happen.”  She’s not psychic or anything and not really sure what that “something big” is but she just believes it.  Maybe that’s the power of suggestion as they say.  If you think it will happen, there’s a better chance it will.

But the ironic thing is, she’s been right many times so when she says something like that, it kind of gets me excited wondering what is coming.

I’ve had big plans for my business for a long time and right from the start, I went right to the top.  In fact, it was maybe about 5-6 months after I started when I decided to send a set of Pencil Bugs and matching bookmarks to guess who?  Yep, Bill Gates!  I knew there wasn’t much of a chance that he would even receive them but I thought, why not?   IF he happened to actually get them and IF he thought I was a pretty good young entrepreneur and IF he just happened to use one of my Pencil Bugs on a pen to sign something in the media, what better attention could I get than to have Bill Gates using a very cool pencil topper?

Well, it’s been almost three years and I have never heard anything from him or even received a form letter but that’s okay.  One reporter wrote about it in a newspaper article and a customer of mine actually had a friend of Gates so you just never know who knows who and what could happen.

If SpongeBob can have toys, cartoons, books, and a movie, then Pencil Bugs can too.

So whatever you do in life, THINK BIG!  You might surprise yourself.