Like many of us, I learned about goal-setting early in my
career. However, it was only a few years ago that I experienced
firsthand the true power of dreaming big. It came at the hands
of someone quite small.  My daughter was seven at the time. She
loved to play catch, and I did also. The object we threw did not
matter: a tennis ball, football, or any ball for that matter. It
was the challenge of consecutive catches that mattered very much
to her.  There was always the same goal, and only one goal, when
we played catch: to break the existing records for consecutive
catches.  I remember one day when my focused little daughter
said, "Dad, let's try for 100 in a row." Since our best at that
point was 50, I politely chuckled and said, "Sure, honey." And
guess what, after a few attempts, we did it.  So, the next day
she said, "Dad let's go for 300 in a row." Well, my daughter was
learning about thinking big, but I still had a lot to learn. I
thought to myself, "Gee, we just hit 100. Why not try 125 or
maybe 150 in