The Power Of Doing It Now

The reports say that all is to turn around in 2010. Why then, and not now?

I've always wondered how this works and how so many fall for this ambiguous and defeatist idea. Why not now; why not on our own steam?

When "the economy" is some outside force that we all hope and pray to, as if it was a ruthless god of an ungracious nature, we have placed our fortunes into an unknown force. Likewise, we have admitted that our own efforts have nothing to do with creating our own future.

Time and time again, I see business people and entrepreneurs doing nothing about obvious problems that could be resolved in the moment, simply because they entered the day and the equation with an apathetic resolve of futility.

On the other hand, I have found that some are taking action now, looking for the opening, finding the creases within the problems and creating new solutions, and thus determining their own future and possibly even blazing a new trail for others.

Thomas Edison did not go to lighting school to develop the light bulb. The Wright Brothers did not take flight lessons in college. In fact, they never went to college like those who created the AIG and Enron mess.

Innovators have never looked to the economy or the way things are, nor did they listen to the bad news of how things could not be. They saw opportunity; they had a vision of what could be and then created it.

That takes courage and a high belief and faith in your own abilities and ideas. These are the people that will not only survive this economy, but will in fact be the architects of the new economy. And of course, they will be in front of the others enjoying most of the success that is to be.

Your revenue and your future are not determined by Washington, Congress or the man on the moon. Congressional committees could have never invented the light bulb, the airplane nor the solution to your future success.

Best, Edwin Dearborn