Being selfish is often conflated with looking inwards, looking after number one, keeping yourself small.

Yet looking inwards is often the only place to start.

Everything great starts small. An idea, a seed, a business.

Then you nourish it. You give it what it needs to grow.

Only by starting small and focused can you enable it to grow. 

An oak tree takes 150 years to mature. Yet none of us would consider the acorn selfish.

Starting small and staying focused is a different kind of selfishness. The good kind.