A Tough Economy Fuels Hope
Friday, 03. 27. 2009 – Category: T2 Communications
With all the doom and gloom reported in today’s news, it is easy to assume that there is not much hope for any businesses expanding, growing or otherwise making a profit. Rumor at the water cooler is that unless you can treat a heart attack, or work for the unemployment office, your job is in jeopardy. While I will admit that the economy is in a desperate state and we all still wait, holding our breath that it will not get any worse; if we look hard enough there is a light at the end of the tunnel, an occasional glimpse of good news. Hope.
CornerWorld acquires Woodland Wireless. This is not a bailout, an incentive plan, or stimulus package. Two companies doing fine on their own, combine to utilize more ideas, to serve the customer better, and yes to make a better profit. It is exciting to hear about a company growing. It is invigorating to brainstorm ideas that may or may not happen, to dream of possibilities. It takes the edge off the reality of economic struggles. Two companies and many minds have combined. The internet networking of one, and the cellular technologies of the other. And that gives us hope.
Whoever said in the 1980s that computers will never catch on forgot for a moment that Americans are a people of advancement; that we long to discover the undiscovered. Look what happened during the depression, even in hard economic times we still managed to invent tea bags, photocopiers, and build the Empire State Building. There is always hope.
Other companies also have histories of success during tough economic times. Burger King, General Electric, FedEx, CNN, Bill Gates, Jim Henson and others have taken a chance in a hurting economy and come out on top. And who wouldn’t want to be the next Bill Gates? But it doesn’t have to be on a scale so grand. Most of us couldn’t handle the pressure of that much success, but it would be nice not to have to worry about paying the heat bill.
What can we do? Perhaps you have already done it. Check in your craft room, in your garage, and on your computer for those ideas that you have always thought were nothing, that you always thought, “Maybe someday when I have more time.” Now is the time. Find that piece you welding that you thought might help those who are disabled. Find those notes you typed, tweak them, and send them off to a publisher. Make dozens of those hair bows and sell them at a community bazaar. And if you haven’t had that idea nagging in the back of your mind, brainstorm a new one. Get with your friends and neighbors and use your “gripe session” for something productive. It may be something as simple as a tea bag, but it can change the way people think and give us hope.
So let’s get doing what we do. Let’s use hope to fuel our economy, to overcome the uncertainties. There are many things still waiting to be discovered. Who knows, we may even have a success story that will beat grandpa’s old tale of “walking to school barefoot, uphill both ways.”
Tags: hope, innovation, merger, recession, success