A willingness to make a decision on our own is admirable and praiseworthy when it works well, and when it doesn't well. . . blame is the name of the game for so many and who doesn't love to blame someone who obviously didn't follow protocall, and went off on their own, away from the norm, and away from safety. In the typical world that we see around us, very few are willing to go out on the limb of initiative. It is a lonely place to be.

In fact, the list of those initiators is worthy of note, just so we can keep the record straight. You see it is the ego, or the lizard brain as Seth Godin makes it out to be that keeps us in conformity. But, back to the list. . .

Let's see. . . Seth Godin, Abraham Lincoln, Harvey Firestone, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Franklin D Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Mark Twain, Harry S Truman, Walt Disney, Walter Chrysler, Abraham Maslow, Albert Einstein, Albert Schweitzer, Winston Churchill, Anthony Robbins, Paul McCartney, Mother Teresa, Napoleon Hill, James Cash Penney, George Bernard Shaw, Jack London, Leo Buscaglia, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Mahatma Gandhi, Harland Sanders, Henry David Thoreau, Jimmy Carter, John Wooden, Booker T Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Esther & Jerry Hicks, Carl Sewell, Charles A Lindbergh, R Buckminster Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, just to name a very few.

Seems like wonderful company to me. I'm in!