Children are the best teachers.  They show everyday how hypocritical we can be.  I caught myself preaching to my son about making excuses instead of finishing his required work for school, and the same day caught myself making the same excuse to my wife about not doing something about the ants in the kitchen.  A wise man told me once that “the only reason you are ever late is because you didn’t leave early enough” In other words it is always you.  It is never the situation that you find yourself in.  Today’s world gives you tremendous ammunition for your excuse maker to get involved.  He will encourage you to wait, to contemplate, or to stay in a holding pattern with your life until things settle down in our so called “economic crisis”.   This is self destructive to every aspect of your life, and our Country.  If you think that I am preaching to you now…you are right.

 The fact is that there are only a few things we can do to affect the situation, and none of them require us to know about all of the other challenges that face the planet.  Sitting around worrying about the ozone layer doesn’t build a new electric car.  Fighting with your neighbor about the best candidate for the Senate doesn’t feed your family.  Jeffrey Gitomer wrote: “resign yourself from being the General Manager of the universe” Now that is good advice.  Think of how much more time you’ll have to work on the things that you actually have control over, if you leave the rest of the stuff to the world to handle.  It is time for you to make the news, not to watch it happen.

 Attitudes can change a Nation and affects everyone.  When you wait for others to do things, or wait for things to happen before you do things, nothing gets done.  I met a woman once who was lamenting the fact that she wasn’t born in the time of the industrial revolution in the 1900’s.  She believed that the opportunities that the industrial giants had then, was the reason for their success.  If she were only alive then, she too would have been a giant.  Maybe so, but it was interesting that her birthday happened to be in the same year as Bill Gates.  Some would say that he too just fell into the right place at the right time.  Do you think he sees the world with the same trepidation as you? These times, as in all times, require men of action, or doers and risk takers.

 Man has always looked for the short term gain and easy way out.  It must be a nature thing.  However, there is no gain with worry about the future, there is no gain with poverty, and there is no gain with anger or any negative emotion that prevents action.  It is time to stop with the excuses, and blaming, and questions of why things are the way they are.  Holding patterns don’t help anyone…It is time to get off your bum and fly.  Then you can see the world from 10,000 ft. up, with a new perspective, one like Bill Gates.