I just love when I see posts from big thinkers. Sometimes I wonder, however, if the posts are really about helping the members of the revolution think big or whether they're designed to promote a product or a service. Just thinking out loud...maybe you'll think about it too...
Think big,
Michael
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Added by Michael Port on April 21, 2010 at 9:30pm —
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Here's something a little more
inspiring.
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Added by Michael Port on January 8, 2010 at 3:30pm —
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The tragic death of three people attending a "spiritual retreat" with James Arthur Ray has made me so angry that I'm having trouble finding words to express myself. But I'm going to try because, to me, silence is acceptance---and there has been a deafening level of silence from other "teachers" in the spiritual-help "community." Though, I am not in the "spiritual-help" business, I do write business-help books, and am close enough to, and sometimes, much to my annoyance, associated with James Ray…
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Added by Michael Port on January 8, 2010 at 10:30am —
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I couldn't resist. Here's a guest blog post I authored for
GirlieGirlArmy.com on the Top Ten Reasons Why Bigger is Better.
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Added by Michael Port on May 20, 2009 at 8:17am —
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After a recent speech on Think Big Manifesto a woman slipped me a note.
It was a poem by Natasha Josephowitz.
My right hand is held
by someone who knows more
and I am learning
My left hand is held
by someone who knows less
and I am teaching
Both my hands must be held
for me to be
-end-
The future belongs to the learner. The future belongs to the leader. We must be both to create an expansive and collaborative world in which all people have the opportunity for full self-expression.
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Added by Michael Port on May 19, 2009 at 9:34am —
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Have at it. It's hot and will hit you right between the eyes.
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Added by Michael Port on April 28, 2009 at 10:03am —
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Expert from
The Think Big Manifesto by Michael Port, p. 139-145.
Our values and actions are contagious.
When we think big, it is contagious. But beware: When we, or others think small, the influence is that much more virulent. As much as we influence others, so are we are at risk of catching others’ values and actions, of coming under their influence. If we surround ourselves with small…
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Added by Michael Port on April 27, 2009 at 11:28am —
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Challenge and capacity feed on each other in a symbiosis, a cycle of exponential growth; as we begin to think big, our big thoughts blossom. So go ahead, increase discomfort. Increase candor.
As we become more comfortable with discomfort, so our capacity to do big things increases. Know that if what makes us uncomfortable seems small, it’s not the same thing as small thinking. Each challenge is our worthy opponent. As we take on bigger challenges, so the next larger challenge becomes more manag…
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Added by Michael Port on April 13, 2009 at 1:30pm —
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Scary? Why? Because the small thinking powers-that-be do not want us to think big—and they definitely do not want us to act on our big thoughts. They want us to be tame and predictable, hooked up to the IV of television and shopping, living in our comfortable-life comas. Life is so much easier that way. The citizens (that means us) are tame. The corporations and politicians do what they want. The few can control the many. Is that what you want?
Of course not. Besides, if you’re here you are alr…
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Added by Michael Port on April 2, 2009 at 2:00pm —
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Instead of thinking "when I start doing" think "I am doing" -- then big things will really start to happen for you and the others around you.
So often we think of ourselves as
planning to develop rather than thinking of ourselves as
developing... we don't feel we are worthy of the "I am doing" moment. Rather we explain ourselves away by staying in the "when I start doing" moments. It's safer. It's also self-sabotage.
To live without integrity is to purposely diminish your own cha…
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Added by Michael Port on April 1, 2009 at 9:00am —
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Michael Port
video interview (while driving - yikes!) with Lissa Barnes about
The Think Big Manifesto and The Revolution.
Here are the show notes:
00:00:00 - Leesa sings a popular song to set the mood
00:00:23 - Leesa introduces Michael Port, bestselling author and speaker
00:00:36 - Micheal starts explaining Th…
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Added by Michael Port on March 29, 2009 at 11:30am —
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Thinking Small
The power base in our country is dominated by small thinking, and those in control strive to build and perpetuate a domestic and international culture of more and more sedated citizens (read me and you). They want us to think small so that we will willingly act against our own interests and the interests of our children and generations to come. Why else would the poor be getting poorer and the rich richer? Why else would the environment be going to the dogs and war be slipping in…
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Added by Michael Port on March 25, 2009 at 10:15am —
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Our core is that part of us that can never be destroyed no matter what is done to us. We can be beaten and tortured, tormented by others. We can lose everything we own. We can lose the love of our life. But there is a part inside of each of us that cannot be taken away. It is our core and it is rich and abundant.
Nelson Mandela endured as much as any person can, and yet, after more than a quarter of a century behind bars, he emerged with…
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Added by Michael Port on March 18, 2009 at 12:30pm —
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Words have the potential to lose their meaning through overuse, like "think big." Sometimes it seems as if everyone is talking about big thinking.
ABC's
Good Morning America (GMA) has dubbed March their think BIG month. Yet note how they are talking about it, what they mean when they say it…too often it is thinking big from a consumption point of view. Today's focus, on GMA, was on the world tallest building (which happens to be in Dubai, a place of extr…
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Added by Michael Port on March 9, 2009 at 8:30am —
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Please...If you think I add value to your life/work, do drop me a recommendation at
http://mrtweet.net/michaelport. Much appreciated!
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Added by Michael Port on March 8, 2009 at 8:48am —
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The future belongs to the learner, not the learned, not the teachers who have lost their own will to learn. To know is not to know anymore.
To think big is to lead by learning, to lead by example.
If you stand for something, then it will guide everything you do, and so you will naturally set an example.
People who think small try to lead by teaching others to do things their way, thus perpetuating an inertial downward spiral of hierarchical pedagogical dogma—in other words, I’m-better-than-yo…
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Added by Michael Port on March 5, 2009 at 2:41pm —
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If your eyes went wide and thoughts of easy marketing and big promotion for your products or serviced raced through your head when you landed on this site, be careful.
That is not the point of The Think Big Revolution. Yes, you may become known for what you stand but this is a place for us to think bigger about who we are and what we offer the world. Not for you to simply post your tele-classes, produces or services.
I can tell within seconds who is here to stand in the service of others as th…
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Added by Michael Port on February 6, 2009 at 9:48am —
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Fresh Start Creative just added a whole bunch of new Think Big Revolution Paraphernalia to the Cafe Press Shop. Yard signs, posters, greeting cards, buttons, bumper stickers, bags, clocks, and more. You name it we can make it.
Paraphernalia to help you think bigger about who you are and what you offer the world.
Note: Any profits I receive from this paraphernalia goes to a charity.
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Added by Michael Port on February 6, 2009 at 9:30am —
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My great aunt Elly (my father's aunt) past away this week at 97 years young. Her passing represents the end of an era in my family. And if the following story doesn't encourage and inspire you, I don't know what will. As told by one of the family...
"Elly seemed to take on any new endeavor with the energy and enthusiasm of a teenager. As we age, many of us become fearful of change and new challenges; let this 'Elly story' inspire you:
Apparently she wasn't very good at math as a kid. So, when…
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Added by Michael Port on January 22, 2009 at 12:00pm —
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Here's an excerpt from The Think Big Manifesto. It'll be released
worldwide in May '09 but I think this section is particularly
appropriate as we move gracefully into the New Year. (It's not short
but it's worth it.) Enjoy...
Think Big Statement of Purpose for 2009
Get Comfortable with Discomfort (if the Shoe Pinches, It Fits)
When we are thinking small, we crave preordained outcomes.
We want to know what's going to happen before we begin.
Control is an illusion. The need to know how an…
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Added by Michael Port on December 31, 2008 at 12:16pm —
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