“Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.” James Harvey Robinson

I was having lunch with a colleague yesterday when a business acquaintance approached our table and some small chit chat ensued. It went as it invariably does:

Acquaintance: Well how’s business?

Me: Business is OK.

Acquaintance: Just OK?

Me: Yes, just OK, but it will get better.

Acquaintance: Well you know Robbie, with the economy the way it is and with people out of work they are, OK is the new GREAT!

Ummm…no, not in my world. In my world, OK is now and always will be… just OK. It is not the new GREAT.

Consider– if OK was the new GREAT:

• I’d work out at the gym everyday with a 33RPM record player strapped to my back because Sony would have never invented the Walkman which let you “wear your music” and eventually led to the iPod.
• I still wouldn’t be able to get either of my children outside to scythe the yard.
• My laptop computer would in fact be my bungalow sized computer and would in fact be very unwieldy in my chair right now.
• I’d spend twice as long in the restroom as I do now fiddling with those doggone button-fly jeans because I’d have no zipper.
• I’d have to actually talk to all these people I communicate with on a daily basis because I wouldn’t be able to text them.
• I’d probably still be sitting in traffic with a folding map on my last trip out of town because I wouldn’t have my GPS to get me outta there.
• I would be reading at night by candlelight (more…)