Thinking Small

06/22/2009

Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.
Hafiz

In The Power of Small: Why Little Things Make All the Difference (New York: Broadway Books, 2009), Linda Kaplan Thaler offers advice on making small talk, going the extra inch, and taking baby steps. In her chapter, "Make It Big by Thinking Small," she offers these little nuggets of wisdom....

See the glass as half empty. Look around and see what's not working, what cries out for a solution. Take three items you use on a routine basis and ask yourself what small change would improve them.

Be four again. Ask small questions. Don't be afraid to ask why, and, more importantly, why not. If you admire someone's success, be nosy about how he or she achieved it, instead of envious. Ask the specific steps they took and how they reached their goals.

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