Life Is Never As Good As It Gets

Saying life is as good as it gets is an excuse not to try and make things better. There is no limit to how great things can get!

How can we possibly know that we have reached the absolute end of the line of progress in any endeavor? It's unreasonable to say that a situation cannot improve. Even in completely ‘hopeless cases,’ and ‘impossible dreams,’ and ‘incurable illnesses,’ ‘miracles’ are happening every day.

We call these outcomes miracles, because we, in our limited wisdom had decided that what was happening in each of these situations was as good as it gets. When we are proven wrong, and it is shown that the situation can indeed get better, we declare it to be a miracle.

Saying that things cannot get any better is not logical. There is absolutely no evidence to support this belief. Many times, there is evidence to the contrary. How often have you heard of someone in the same circumstances as you, managing to do something you declared couldn’t be done.

Do you take this as encouragement that if they can do it, so can you? Or do you find excuses for why you can’t do it? Name the special circumstances or ‘luck’ that has allowed the other person to rise above the limitations you have set for yourself?

For years everyone believed it was impossible that a person could run a mile in under four minutes. In 1954 Roger Bannister broke the four-minute-mile. His success inspired Jim Landry to do the same within a couple of months. Roger Bannister refused to believe that the previous record was as good as it gets, and his achievement proved it. Jim Landry took Bannister’s triumph as inspiration to reach his own goal.

We can never claim to know for sure that bigger, better, faster, richer, happier, or healthier are not possible. By failing to strive for these goals, we are not proving that a situation is as good as it gets, we are only proving that we don’t want to make it better. Saying that something can’t be done is a convenient excuse not to try.

To break through barriers, it is also a matter of trying, not just once, but as many times as it takes to overcome whatever obstacle it is that you are facing.

If Edison had quit trying after a couple of hundred attempts to make a light bulb, he could have declared that it just wasn’t possible. However, he believed in his mission, and was determined to find the way that it could be done, even if it meant having to first find thousands of ways that it couldn’t.

Every day, when we look past the popular media stories of doom and gloom, we can gain inspiration from people who are finding ways to make things better. People who are making the world a better place by believing in themselves. They don’t accept that anything is as good as it gets, so they keep on making things better.

There is always a chance for things to improve. Where there is life, there is hope, so hang onto that hope. Keep believing that life can always get better.

No matter how good or how bad a situation seems to be right now, there is no limit to how good it can get!

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