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Okay, now I know I claim to be the “Professor of Positivity and Possibility,” and the title of this post doesn’t appear to fall in line with my message. I promise it will by the time we’re done! 😉
Over the past few weeks, I have discussed tapping into your inner genius — being silent and still through meditation or prayer, to listen to our intuition, higher conscious, or divine spirit as it speaks to us. The obvious benefit of performing this type of exercise is to tap into higher levels of consciousness, where our true creativity and innovative self resides. When we can tap into this resource, we can create our own destiny. In other words, anything is possible.
Now, I know there are those who are naysayers, who say that there are just some things that are not possible. Yes, I agree that I could come up with some seemingly outrageous idea, and point out that it’s not possible. For example, I could say that it is not possible for me, at my current age and personal history, to become the starting quarterback for the Green Bay Packers tomorrow. Most people would agree, but can I prove, without any doubt, that this is not possible? Is it for certain?
It’s time for a little fun with you today. Here are some quotes from some famous “naysayers,” who vocalized beliefs rooted in doubt about future developments or progress. It’s easy now to point out how flawed these statements and beliefs are. However, who can really blame them for believing and saying what they did? If I were to go back in time and tell someone in the 1920s it is now possible to wirelessly transmit movies or music to a device called a television or a onto a telephone that is rectangular and flat and has no cord through something called the internet, they would have a hard time wrapping their mind around how that would even be possible. If I were able to go back in time to show a smart phone to someone in the 1960s, it would absolutely blow their mind!
Thank goodness we have been blessed by those who have tapped into their creative genius within, and thank goodness they didn’t listen to these people, and what they had to say:
“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” ~Western Union internal memo, 1876
“Everything that can be invented has been invented.” ~Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
“Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.” ~Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929
“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” ~Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” ~Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
If you can dream it, it is possible…It really is. Now excuse me as I check my email on my “useless” phone. 🙂
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