“He’s worth the whole damn bunch put together.” He’s the first to volunteer and last to quit. He’s the equivalent of fifty fleeted ships packed tight with heaving, hoeing, rowing seamen.

Ninety-nine have some sort of excuse. The Hundredth has no excuse.

Where do you rank among the hundred?

No. 64 is a cheater.

No. 10 is a liar.

No. 44 is a thief.

All three want to be The Hundredth but they can’t.

The Hundredth has imagination without dreaming; the secret of material success.

The Hundredth makes his colleagues proud to know him and his parents proud to have raised him.

Everywhere he goes people notice him. He’s the one whose armor shines bright. He is the American version of the Templar knight.

Girls see him and blush. Boys see him and want to be him. Employers offer him work because they know he’s a sure shot on their return. The envious envy him. He’s everything they will never be. Even the very rich envy him as they know he cannot be bought.

When The Hundredth sees something wrong he goes on and fixes it. And when a thing is to be done he goes and does it. And when something needs to be said he goes on and says it.

The Hundredth man picks up 10 lbs only to set it down and pick up 20 lbs.

The Hundredth man wears his countries colors proudly.

He loves to compete but doesn’t mind losing. He secretly enjoys seeing others win.

He is the power of 10 summed up into one.

He is the missing X.

He will not bend to evil or greed.

Do you know The Hundredth man? If not, don’t be ashamed, he is in short supply.

FDR is now dancing on top his gravestone. A magnificent thought considering almost 100 years ago he was diagnosed with poliomyelitis, known better as polio, at the age of 39.

Once more humanity triumphs with news of the eradication of the wild poliovirus type 3. The historic achievement was recently announced on World Polio Day. Two out of three wild poliovirus strains have now been eradicated according to the World Health Organization.

This is what happens when humans decide to work together on a global scale. Collaboratively, we have done to type 2 and 3 poliovirus what Napoleon would do to his enemies: completely destroy them.

The final stalk begins. Poliovirus type 1, said to be present only in Afghanistan and Pakistan, is the last of the three poliovirus strains. This too shall soon be eradicated. 

Human desire paired with knowledge, innovation and a well funded worldwide network of scientists have done today what many thought impossible. Indication that there is hope for a polio-free world. Exciting news for the whole of mankind.

FDR is now dancing on top his gravestone. A magnificent thought considering almost 100 years ago he was diagnosed with poliomyelitis, known better as polio, at the age of 39.

Once more humanity triumphs with news of the eradication of the wild poliovirus type 3. The historic achievement was recently announced on World Polio Day. Two out of three wild poliovirus strains have now been eradicated according to the World Health Organization.

This is what happens when humans decide to work together on a global scale. Collaboratively, we have done to type 2 and 3 poliovirus what Napoleon would do to his enemies: completely destroy them.

The final stalk begins. Poliovirus type 1, said to be present only in Afghanistan and Pakistan, is the last of the three poliovirus strains, and, it too, will soon be eradicated. 

Human desire paired with knowledge, innovation and a well funded worldwide network of scientists have done today what many thought would be impossible. Indication that there is hope for a polio-free world. Exciting news for the whole of mankind.

For the first time in history an all-women spacewalk occurred. On 18 October 2019 American NASA flight engineers Christina Koch and Jessica Meir of Expedition 61 worked side by side for 7 hours and 17 minutes replacing a failed battery charge-discharge unit with a new one.

Sitting at home streaming curiously on NASA’s YouTube channel is Suzy Someday, an 8 year old girl from Nowheresville, USA. She is in awe as her hero’s do their work. She is now, for her first time, witnessing what can be accomplished when little American girls dream. One dreamer born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and the other in Caribou, Maine. Both dreamers once like Suzy.

Suzy’s mother, who is preparing the family dinner catches sight of her little girl and secretly takes a quick snap to send to her loving husband working hard on the Amazon factory floor. Both parents, doing what many parents have been doing for years, sacrificing day and night so their children have a better life than they did.

Growing up Suzy will encounter failure, but forever there to help her overcome will be those images of her hero’s. A constant reminder of what it means to dream big, sacrifice often, and never give up.

In school her classmates will be preparing for homecoming, chasing puppy love on the weekends and daydreaming about popularity. All useless thoughts to Suzy.

Suzy is focused on her dream of one day becoming an astronaut, very much the same as Christina Koch and Jessica Meir once were.

It is endless goals and hours of work for Suzy. All in the name of furthering women’s influence and our exploration of space.

A much improved human race is on the rise. At the head are women like Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, and eventually Suzy Someday from Nowheresville. The notion that women belong only at home is for small brained people who are mouselike in thought.

Young girls of 10 or 11, who are looking to one day make a name and want to push along the social standing status of women need not look to politics but rather to space. Space work requires patience, enthusiasm and devotion. All three are highly developed naturally among women. The future work for women is space work.

“Keep at it!” said Edison to Ford when Ford sketched up his idea for an engine on back of a napkin.

If life were easy what would be the point? It is the daily struggle; the idea of challenging ourselves to do, to overcome and to achieve that keeps us. The very best ingredients of our character come from our willingness to do. We learn to be patient, to keep steady and that through our will to do we find a way.

The point to get across here is that to bring success you must do, keep doing and never give up. Try your best to get whatever it is you must get done finished. And though it is hard to free your mind from discouragement, remember always that you are the master of your destiny.

Don’t be in a hurry. Real success isn’t something made over night. It is a steady progression that is made in the way a climber scales an icy cliff. First he digs his boots into the ice. Then he swings his axe above his head. So long as he secures one boot before the next and firmly digs in with his axe, he is free from danger. It is when he tries to climb too quick that he suddenly slips and loses all that he has gained. Success may seem hard to summit at first but keep going. Sure success comes through steady steps.

Keep in good spirits. Although it may be hard to do it is actually the secret to success. Have you ever seen the jolly fellow who keeps at a positive attitude even when things never seem to go his way? Everyone wants to be around him. Everyone wants to be his friend. Everyone cheers him on. Everyone says in their mind, “He is going to be a success one day.”

Make today a day of success. If you have some obligation to be met and you are dreading it, go right away and get it over with. To be successful you’re going to have to stare the tiger in it’s eyes.

If you owe money, go and pay it. And if you cannot pay it right away do what little you can. Just do something. Get the debt off of your chest. Don’t avoid those nagging calls from the creditor. Answer them and explain to them what you can or cannot do and find out where there is a solution. Put the cards in your hand. That’s how the successful gambler keeps rich.

If your goal is to save money start now and keep at it. What was once ten dollars is soon to be one-hundred and then one-thousand. Start now and don’t stop.

If you have wanted to do something go at it and get it done. That’s what separates the successful from the unsuccessful.

What you have planned for your future may seem so far off that you don’t feel that it is attainable. Go for it anyways. It is thought that entertains life. What you do today matters tomorrow.

Stop thinking so hard on what you should do, could do, or would do and get to it.

No matter how you look at it, life is hard. Discouragement can cause us to drift through life helpless and become what many become—defeated.

Those who find themselves discouraged by the temporary eclipse of failure should remember, you will fail in life—rest assured—before you succeed.

Napoleon was short, ugly, had no friends, and stood no chance. Lincoln was poor, had little education, and grew up in a one-room cabin. And Grant, who at thirty-nine, was a poor, shoddy clerk bagging groceries in a country store. Each of these great men were able to rise above their struggles to impact all of history.

Don’t be discouraged if your life is in temporary ruin. Many successful people in history have been where you are today. Do what you can. Pick yourself up. Never give up.

There is a disease of the deciding power that is becoming widespread: No matter where we are, majority of us wish we were somewhere else.

Are you happy with where you are?

Some of us, no-matter what we choose, always wish we had chosen differently.

Some men cannot choose a wife. Not because they are afraid of becoming a husband; but because they are afraid they will miss out on ‘someone better.’

And some of us, once we choose a thing and it becomes ours, immediately regret it.

My neighbor is infected with this condition. For years he wanted a Chevrolet. In fact, he said he would never drive anything else. So after hours of hard work and saving, he bought a Chevrolet. The minute he drove it home and parked it in the garage he said to me, “I should have bought a Ford.”

Some people always think the grass is greener on the other side.

Mr. Shoulda settled in New York but wishes he had settled in Florida.

Mrs. Wishihad sent her boy to Yale but says Harvard is better.

I know employers that hire and fire people simply because they cannot settle. If they hire Johnny Someone they think they would have been better off hiring Nancy Nobody.

I even met a person once that told me that the biggest regret of her life was that she was born in Upstate New York and not California.

If you rent you wished you owned; if you have not this you wish you had that; if you own gold you wish you owned silver.

Whatever ‘it’ is, is not good enough; and whatever did not happen should have happened.

Life is what it is.

Enjoy it!

Don’t be a Wish-I-Hadn’t.

Don’t be a Wish-I-Wasn’t.

Don’t be a Wish-I-Didn’t.

Have confidence in yourself and make the best of your decisions.

It is not the believable we marvel at but the unbelievable. Take for instance the strength of an ant. How marvelously wild is it he can lift 1,000 times his weight! And the apple seed, seemingly so plain and simple, yet given time, soil and water soon sprouts, springing forth branches and leafs and eventually a basket full of more apples.

The familiar every day matters are the sturdiest amongst the unbelievable. How wheat is turned to bread, the stars are born, the sun rises and sets. More so, how the salmon fights upstream tirelessly to spawn and soon after die. The eagle, born out of an egg, soars to heights of over 10,000 feet. Man, once huddled around fire in his cave waiting on the dinosaurs to eat him. Today he tinkers with the idea of living on Mars. All of this, undeniably unbelievable.

No one can deny the unbelievable powers of love. Love makes a person do and think things thought not possible. Perhaps when Shakespeare wrote of “bounty as boundless as the sea” he was simply trying to say in layman’s terms “my love for you is unbelievable.”

The greatest of all things is life. And life is perhaps in itself the most unbelievable of all things.

If life was all believing there would be no unworked mine of wonder, no “Aha” moment, no uncorked bottle of something fantastic. Life would be boring. Start believing in the unbelievable. It is all around you.