In the video, we watch this week, “Think Big,” Taylor Richards, the owner of Taylor’s Boats, tells the story of how he learned to think big. In his account, he went from the first time he was invited to participate in one national event where they will present the top 100 boat dealers in America, all the way to win a respectable position among all his competitors.
He decided to participate with not much ambition to get a decent position among the about five to seven thousand dealers countrywide. He was comfortable if he and his company could make the top 100. However, when the moment arrived, his business ended up number 11, and he could not believe that was possible. The next year he was expecting a better position since they know how they were better than he estimated. To his surprise, they ended up number 6 nationwide.
Then he advises, “…do not underestimate yourself. You can do it, you can accomplish the goals and dreams that you set, and if you involve the Lord, you can do the impossible, you can do amazing things you can go you can do great things. Just like it says in good to excellent, it’s a whole lot more fun to do great things than to be good. Or to be mediocre. And it’s no harder to be great than to be good.
So I challenge you, pursue your goals and dreams. Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do it. And involve the Lord, you can do great things. And it’s fun.” So he repeats the same challenge, “…go for it, pursue your dreams. Pursue your goals to pursue your dreams, Dream huge…” (Rollin’s Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology)
This message is in perfect harmony with Elder Dallin H Oaks, The Challenge to Become. He started quoting the Apostle Paul, saying that the Lord’s teachings and teachers were given that we may all attain “the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ,” again, aiming high.
Elder Oaks taught that the process of flying that high requires more than acquiring knowledge. While the world institutions teach us to know something, the gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to become something. The challenge to become is essential to achieve big dreams. He told us of a father that said to his child: “All that I have I desire to give you – not only my wealth but also my position and standing among men. That which I have I can easily give you, but that which I am you must obtain for yourself. You will qualify for your inheritance by learning what I have learned and by living as I have lived. I will give you the laws and principles by which I have acquired my wisdom and stature. Follow my example, mastering as I have mastered, and you will become as I am, and all that I have will be yours.”
What I take from these teachings it is not what you had learned or what you have achieved, or the money that you have accumulated in wealthiness, but what you become to be. It is not enough with my academic training or resources. What truly matters is what we become to be. We must be brave and dream big dreams, then having the Lord in our side to become. Anyone might know what to do in a specific circumstance, but that knowledge is useless if we do not become.
Like Taylor Richards, many of us underestimate our potential and ignore what the Lord has given us to become. Let us dream BIG and become what the Lord expects from us to become.
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