Play a Bigger Game or Get Played in Business.

✍️ By Shawn Bearman | WBN News – Global | June 16, 2025 | Subscribe to WBN, being a Contributor is Free.

Real talk—if your goals don’t scare you, they’re not big enough. If your calendar looks the same every week, you’re not growing. And if your business feels like a grind instead of a game, it’s time to burn the rulebook.

You weren’t put on this planet to check boxes and collect participation trophies. You were built to play big—to build an empire that turns heads and rewrites the rules.

Small games? They’re comfort disguised as strategy. They make you feel busy without making you powerful. Big games? They demand guts, vision, and a willingness to screw up in front of the crowd—and that’s exactly where your next level lives.

Let’s be blunt: safe doesn’t scale. Safe doesn’t shake industries. Safe doesn’t inspire your team, your customers, or your future self.

Playing big isn’t reckless—it’s deliberate. You pick a game that forces you to expand. One so damn exciting it makes you sit up straighter, think sharper, and show up like a version of yourself you didn’t know existed.

Want a real-life example? Launch that offer you’ve been holding back. Double your revenue goal and actually build the team to hit it. Make the call that scares the hell out of you but could change everything. Stop aiming for “realistic” and start chasing remarkable.

Success doesn’t come to the most talented. It comes to the bold. And bold means designing a business so big it forces you to level up or be crushed by your own ambition.

Design the game. Set the stakes high. Build the rules around your strengths. And then play like your legacy depends on it—because it does.

Big games require structure and mindset. They demand accountability, execution, and a zero-excuses policy. You’re not waiting for motivation—you’re building momentum.

Your competitors? They’re still stuck in meetings debating KPIs. You? You’re out here breaking records, setting trends, and owning the damn field.

So here’s the question you need to answer today: Are you in the game? Or are you still on the sidelines convincing yourself you’ll jump in “someday”?

Spoiler alert—someday isn’t coming.

Get on the field. Pick a game worth winning. And then play it so hard, the world has to take notice.

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