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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  @impaul: I think you're looking at this from an angle that will make it tough to move forward.
Instead of thinking large scale, try thinking deep scale.
I.e. instead of worrying about trying to go big and reach lots of people, think about going deep and having a more powerful impact at the individual level.
Value is received by individuals one at a time, not by hordes of people en masse. The large scale effects are simply ripples.
Ultimately the solution is to follow the path with a heart. That's also the path that requires courage. If your path doesn't require courage, it's the wrong path. The path with a heart is the path you subconsciously dismiss and avoid whenever you try to take on side projects to distract yourself, and you end up stuck in your head. It's the path that's scary to look at, but when you begin moving toward it, you feel energized and alive, and all your inner resources kick into high gear. |
Great advice, thanks for the insight.
Where I've ran into challenges with "doing deep" in the past is that there is only so much I can do to help a person. I can't help someone who isn't ready to receive such help. Ultimately, it is their decision as it is their life. For example, a psychic can give someone a reading, but they can't *force* people to listen to the advice, no matter how sure they are that the advice will benefit that person.
That's kind of where I'm getting stuck working with people 1-on-1. They're only ready to go so far in their conscious growth, and then they want to pause and stay at that level for a while (like most of us), until they are ready to keep going further.
Maybe I can look at it from a different perspective though. For example, I could increase the "depth" of my Blog posts. For example, research a topic in much more depth, find ways to channel even more energy into a single topic, engage multiple media types (video, audio, diagrams etc.), instead of writing a broad variety of Blog posts on many different topics where I'm mostly just skimming the surface - even though most of my posts are over 1,000 words.
Hmmm...