My first house was a small frame home built in the 40’s. A small wooden box.

Two bedrooms, one small bath, a itty bitty kitchen, single living room

and an attached one car garage. Did I mention it was small?

Over the years I completely remodeled it, put in central air,

converted the one car garage to expand the living area … but also

took some advice from an architect.

He said “Make the ceilings tall.”

“How Tall?” I asked.

He said, “Sky’s the limit, you can’t have a ceiling too tall.”

So I took his advice and in my itty bitty old box house I raised the

ceiling in my slightly bigger living space to over 10′.

It made the place feel spacious.

Never forgot that.

Small walls … Tall ceilings.

It has become my analogy for having “LOFTY” goals … not necessarily  “BIG” ones.

Most of the time we are constrained by realistic limitations … and

the limitations force us to get creative … and go in a different

direction … like UPWARDS.

A little firm can have a lofty goal of being the absolute best company

in their category in their community … as opposed to simply having

more and more and more “average” stores.

You don’t have to make a hundred million dollars, win a Nobel peace prize or write a New York Times Bestseller to have larger-than-life ambitions. You can have small but LOFTY goals to change one…small… corner… of the planet.

A box without a top is the architecture of dreams.