This message is the first of a four-part series I am calling "Four Steps to Greatness." I believe within each one of us separately, and all of us corporately, there is the God-given potential for greatness.

Over three decades ago Newsweek magazine ran an article entitled "Advice to a (bored) Young Man." It is good counsel for all of us, man or woman, young or old:

Died, aged twenty; buried, age sixty; the sad epitaph of too many Americans. Mummification sets in on too many young men at an age when they should be ripping the world wide open. For example: Many people reading this page are doing so with the aid of bifocals. Inventor? B. Franklin, age 79.

The presses that printed this page were powered by electricity. One of the first harnessers? B. Franklin, age 40.

Some are reading this …