Yoda from Star Wars had all the best lines, and often they were stunning coaching questions to really make you think. This got Craig thinking about size and assumptions…

How often do you make assumptions based on size? For example do you see a big person and assume they eat a lot? Likewise if you saw a thin person and assume they must exercise loads?

Size plays a big part (excuse the pun) in our business lives every day. How often have you thought about speaking with someone senior to you, or a new client from a company larger than yours, and thought ‘oh I can’t chat to them, they’re too senior or too big for us as a company’?

If this has happened to you, what is the mindset you are choosing? What you think about yourself or your company will impact on who you dare to talk to and how you talk to them. How much do you believe in yourself or your company?

If you have eight people in your company would you dare win a contract with an international business? If not, why not? Size doesn’t determine success, professionalism or expertise.

Challenge yourself and think like Yoda, from Star Wars: he asked Luke Skywalker, ‘Judge me by my size do you?’ just as he raised the X wing fighter from the swamp, after the much larger Skywalker had failed.  And the reason he failed? He didn’t believe in himself and  his ability!