Our Best Days Are Still Ahead

The next time you’re feeling like you are running a hundred miles an hour just to stand still, think about the spectacular accomplishments of the human race.

Every generation has had its share of pessimists and “nay sayers.” People who have said “The impossible can’t be accomplished.” Fortunately there have been people in every generation who know better. When we think about that statement, it goes against the very nature of man, because doing the impossible is what we do best.

The next time you turn on your desktop computer, your iPAC, or your iPod, think about the fact that it was just a little over 500 years ago that Columbus ventured out on his voyage of discovery to find the “new world.”

Five centuries are just a few ticks on the clock of human events. We’ve come a long way in a short time, and our learning curve is exponential. We’ve learned more in the past 50 years than in all the preceding stages of humankind.

The impossible can’t be done? How about traveling faster than the speed of sound? Or putting all of man’s knowledge in a computer chip smaller than your fingernail, or seeing the space shuttle fly to the space station, or cell phones that take pictures or a home theater. Think about all the laser surgery that is being done, the amazing transplants, and all the cures we have found for diseases once thought to be incurable.

Try explaining these facts just a hundred years ago and you would have been labeled mad or insane, as insane as your grandchildren 50 years from now when they will talk of weekend space travel, universal communication where you not only can talk to another person anywhere in the world on your cell phone but see them as well. Think about the possibility of through-the-earth transports, and even flying cars. Nothing is out of reach.

The human condition is to react to the needs of the race and grow, and in so doing, the decomposition of barriers becomes the very natural fertilizer that will enrich that growth. It’s always been that way, and you can bet it always will be. Perhaps you haven’t been watching closely enough.

The world will always have its pessimists and “nay sayers.” People who say the world is coming to the end and our best days are behind us. And in today’s turbulent world with terrorism and the wars in the Middle East, there is so much negative news that we forget about all the positive things that are happening in the world.

This is what makes the words of Napoleon Hill the author of Think and Grown Rich so important today when he said: “What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve, with a Positive Mental Attitude.”

Our world with all its mistakes and shortcoming has come a long way and we have a lot to be proud of. Our best days are still ahead of us. Believe it!