“The Wright brother flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.”  ~ Charles Kettering

Innovators break through barriers. They eat impossibility for breakfast and live a life of limitless possibilities throughout the rest of the day. To say something can’t be done to an innovator is like speaking a foreign language they have never heard before…it doesn’t make sense. There is nothing that frustrates an innovator as much as limited thinking and limited believers. It’s not that innovators are smarter than anyone else, it’s just that they always believe there is a way. They don’t give up when most other people give up. They don’t relent when others slow down. They don’t stop believing when others abandon their hope. Therefore, the innovators are the ones who are crazy enough to keep going and as a result they are the ones who change history.

Too many people and organizations are not operating as innovators, they are operating as outovators. That is not even a word…but I am declaring it is now. Outovators get out of the land of possibilities and dwell in the land of impossibilities. They are always figuring out why things can’t be done, rather than figuring out how it can be done. They love mediocrity and the path of least resistance. They turn at the first sign of obstacles. When outovators are in control the status-quo becomes the goal.

If the Wright brothers gave up because of obstacles who knows where we would be now. But they didn’t. They kept pushing on failure after failure until the impossible became possible. Innovators have a hard time giving up.

So what are you an innovator or an outovator? Do you truly believe there is a way to accomplish your dreams and goals? Do you push through impossibilities with a tenacious faith? Or do you tend to give up way too quickly when there is resistance?

Let me give you some encouragement…you were created to be an innovator so don’t sell yourself short. Break out of outovation and break into innovation. Believe the impossible is just a challenge to find the possible.