Trust Thyself

Perhaps the greatest essay ever written by a human being is “Self-'Reliance,” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The essay is a battle cry for the individual to listen to his or her internal genius, to swim upstream, to stand apart from the crowd, to take personal initiative in spite of fear and to go forth into productive work.

Emerson said, "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense. Else, tomorrow as stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another, trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."

Obviously, we need to enter into an alliance with other people, to seek the counsel of others, because the key word to all success and achievement is "thinking." All humans are not willing to think and none of us need their counsel and should not listen to it Think independently and find other independent thinkers for correction and synergy. Then take action.

To think and act are blessed freedoms that God has given to every individual, and what time to be alive. World political and economic freedoms are breaking out around the globe. There are troubles like those in the Middle East, but this is not the Big Picture.

Consider what is happening around the world in terms of wealth creation. The Internet has created more millionaire in the last ten years than the in the last fifty combined. Look at all the advances in computer and communication technology.

Think about this a bit, and you will realize that the world is about to enter the age of wealth, not leave it. The bears of the future cannot conceive it. I am bullish.

Big corporations are downsizing and laying off employees at a record pace,but thousands of small businesses are springing up all over the world and employing people at a rate at two-and-one-half times that of the layoffs. We must find a need, trust our intuition about filling it and take the personal intuitive of action. Create a want!

Oh yes there will be problems, setbacks and reversals. There have always have been. There will be abuses of freedom. There is and always was. It will take work to keep our heads on straight. It always did. There will be tyrants, dictators, and cheats. There always are.

What's new here? So what? The Big Picture is bright. Every true human being regardless of race, sex, or social status is a cause, a county, and an age.