It’s time to get rid of the “Nay-Sayers!”


Have you ever noticed?

The world is full of people who will tell you what you can’t do.

They tell you: “You are no good at this….”

“You are not capable of doing that….”

“You will never be as good as me…..”

And on and on….

The insults and disparaging remarks are endless.

That kind of negativity come in all shapes and sizes and I call them “put downs” and they come from those who only know one thing how to discourage enthusiasm, and eat away at hope.

They are the people who discourage you because they don’t want you besting them.

They are the people who prefer the status quo.

They don’t want to see anyone get ahead.

And they don’t want anyone to get wise to them….

And their little scams that allow them to get away with doing nothing….

And they are endemic; you find them everywhere.

I literally despise such people.

I hate people that feel sorry for themselves.

Who blame the world for not being good to them.

Who feel a sense of entitlement.

I have known them all my life.

I grew up with them, in fact.

Their modus operandi is that they don’t want to see you get ahead—especially ahead of them!

They love to take the credit for everything….

And to my mind, they diminish life.

They are always the “negativists.”

They only see what can’t be done.


And what you can’t do.

And they’ve probably been around since the beginning of time.

They are the ones who laughed at Noah!....

Who thought that leaving Africa would be a waste of time….

Who said to others, “Why build a shelter, it will never stand up to the elements.”

We all know who I am referring to.

What if Christopher Columbus listened to the nay-sayers?

What if Thomas Edison was told: “Why try all those filaments; it will never work anyway?”

What if somebody said, “Why bother, Mr. Pasteur: What’s the big deal anyway about homogenizing milk?”.

And that kind of myopia and narrowness of view has not gone away. In fact, only a few years ago, somebody said that there was an end to history….Nothing else new could happen under the sun…..

Another person at the end of the nineteenth century said that every invention that was going to be invented was already invented.

The point is that you can’t listen to anyone when it comes to charting your course.

Only you decide.

And that’s how it should be.

When people tell me “it can’t be done,” I enjoy proving them wrong.

We Internet people should know about such things.

Back in the sixties, the big Communications companies laughed at the
“black box” makers saying these things will never work!

IBM said why bother with these kids toys, the pc, the future is in the big IBM mainframes….

And you wonder how people can be so wrong….

Here’s my little motto: Most people are mostly wrong most of the time.

And whoever says there isn’t room for innovation is simply an obstacle and should be fired.

If they worked for me and thought that way, they would be gone in twenty four hours.

I like a “can-do” atmosphere.

I don’t want to hear it can’t be done because, mostly, it can.

If you have the moxie to do it.

And it’s that kind of spirit we have to find again.

The spirit that we can do anything.

I think it will come back if we can wrestle power away from the negativists and those who tell us it isn’t worth doing.

There’s plenty of us out there; all we have to do is find our courage once again.


Les Aaron