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I'm reading MJ's fantastic book and it's getting me excited to take the next step. But I still need some help to get there.

Here's the deal -- I am, by most people's standards, a "successful" internet entrepreneur. I haven't had a boss since 1988, I earn enough from my businesses to lead a comfortable life, spend lots of time with my family, have no major debt to speak of and I spend my days more or less as I like.

But I feel as if I've hit a plateau, and MJ is helping me understand why: I've always just thought "big enough" and never beyond that. There are people who look at a new idea and say "I'm gonna make $100K a month from that". Me? I look at it and say "I'm gonna make $5K a month from that". And we both are usually right in our judgements.

I feel that changing though, and MJ's book is part of it. But I want to keep the momentum going. So, my question:

How does one transform himself from a small thinker to a big thinker?
 
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Gopfoph vjot gusan ot e xupfisgam gostv tviq!
 
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Fup'v vjopl "O'n cusif", vjopl "jux madlz en O?!" Eddiqv cioph e movvmi cusif et cioph UL cideati gsun cusifun tqsopht iydovinipv. Gsun jisi up zua'si upmz vetl ot vu liiq mogi iydovoph us tevotgzoph. Zuas tvsahhmi ot uwis. Hsux og zua xepv us gudat up tevotgzoph zuas cetod janep piift (et qsuqutif cz V.S.)...

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Vjip vu hsux tqosovaemmz...

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