One day, a tourist saw a fisherman busy fishing.
The fisherman was very skilled as he caught a lot of fish. But the tourist noticed that the fisherman had this strange behavior. If he caught a big fish, he threw it back to the lake. But if he caught a small fish, he’d put it in his container. After seeing the fisherman do this strange behavior many times, he had to ask.
He went up to the fisherman and asked, “Sir, I couldn’t help but notice something strange about what you do. Normally, we keep the big fish and throw away the small fish. But you do the opposite. You throw the big fish and keep the small fish. How come?”
The fisherman said, “Oh, that’s simple. I have a small frying pan.”
I’ve met a lot of people who are just like that fisherman.
They’re stuck with an eight-inch mindset.
Friend, God wants to bless us with abundance. He wants to bless us with growth, promotions, favor, and increase. But we throw all these away because we think we don’t deserve that abundance. Somehow, we think we’re stuck with that eight-inch frying pan.
Instead of throwing out the fish, throw out the frying pan of your small thinking, small vision and small self-worth—and start expanding your thinking.
Once upon a time, I was just like that fisherman.
I saw myself as poor. I told everyone I was poor. I couldn’t wear the clothes I’m wearing now. I insisted on wearing the crummiest shirts. I couldn’t hang out with rich and successful people because I felt unworthy and uncomfortable in their presence.
Opportunities to earn money and grow my money were all around me, but I kept saying no because I didn’t feel worthy of becoming rich. But one day, when I was 30 years old, I threw away my eight-inch mindset. I threw away my small thinking, small believing, and small dreaming.
I began to dream big.
Today, I don’t have an eight-inch mindset. I have an eight-kilometer mindset. Yes, my frying pan is so big, if God has a whale of a blessing for me, I’d receive it.
Many years ago, I remember writing on my dream book that, one day, I would donate one million pesos to the ministry. When I wrote it down, I laughed. The figure was impossible. How could a poor guy like me do that?
But today, I do this regularly. The impossible happened.
Ditch your small frying pan now and enlarge your mindset!
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