Open The Doors To Your Dreams

“Big doors swing on small hinges” - W. Clement Stone

Have you ever really thought about the size difference of doors and the hinges that hold and move them?  A large solid core wooden door can weigh 70lbs, held up and moved by hinges that a weigh a small fraction of that. Many hinges are able to hold and move up to 200lbs..even more if there’s multiple hinges (No I’m not a carpenter, I researched this CLICK HERE).  What can we learn from hinges?

Small changes can have great results.  Are there some metaphorical doors that have yet to swing open to you?  Have you been relentlessly slamming against them with a battering ram and still nothing seems to budge?  Hinges can move massive doors because they’ve been built from strong material, attached to supports, well placed in accordance to their tasks and do what they do best, swing doors. Think about the door you want to open, what are two or three small changes you could make to help open that door? 

It could be as simple as: writing your blogs in chunks instead of one at a time, setting intentions for your weeks and meetings before they start, reaching out to two people a week in the area you want to work in to foster relationships, spending 60mins a week learning about the pains of your ideal client, making sure you join Facebook groups where you can add value and show knowledge or even writing down your life mission statement and reading it every morning.  These are all small changes, that if placed accordingly, supported by the strength of your vision and focused on the task at hand could lead to massive doors being opened for you.

Nothing needs to be forced open when the approach is right.  Figure out what door it is you want to walk through, appraise it, measure the width, height and weight of it, determine what hinges you have in stock and start adhering them.  You may need to make some tweaks, some may need to be placed higher, others may need to be oiled up and some may actually be too big causing the door to be stuck ajar and too narrow to walk through.  The point is, it’s a hell of a lot easier to open a door with hinges then slamming it with a battering ram.