What do you mean, no?

I am the kind of a person that finds it a challenge when someone says there isn't a way to do something.  Or, you can't change things, it's always been this way.

I am not talking about outright disobedience.  I just can't stand it when people keep bringing the past forward as an example of how it cannot be done today!  Those statements (perhaps rooted in fact) are the very thing that motivate me.  I have always said that I may not be the visionary, but I can be the legs to that vision. Give me a great idea and I will find a way to get it done!

Think of salmon spawning.  Look at the rivers they go up.  Sometimes abundant with water, a mere trickle or perhaps a raging waterfall, whatever the obstacle, they find a way to move upstream when all the odds seems incredibly stacked against them. Some make it, some don't.  The most tenacious achieve their goal. Tenacity is the key to their success!

In our world it takes both tenacity and other like minded people to join together (I am not above batting my eyelids to get the men on board).  :-)  Ordinary people who see a worthwhile project and say, "I like that idea, I will join with you to get this done"!  Look around you in any sized community and you will find hundreds of examples where volunteers banded together to create a project that everyone can enjoy.  It's a beautiful thing!

So, the next time you hear someone say, it can't be done......say to them, "What do you mean , no?" and then show then how to do it!

GermanG