There will always be those who complain about their luck in life. The economy is bad, that’s why I’m not doing well. This is wrong and that is wrong, but wait a minute: why are you complaining instead of doing things to make it better?

The baby boomer generation will soon transfer to millennials and other assets known as the great wealth transfer. This transfer is estimated at between 30 and 70 billion dollars in the next 20 years. This will no doubt make things better for many Millennials, Gen X, Y and Z and their children and grandchildren. Not everyone will receive large amounts of money, but many will.

Also, that generation is known to have created many things that we all use every day. The key is to find out what people want, need and want and then give it to them. For example, during the 1960s, young teenagers were learning to drive. Ford developed the Mustang. Later, when boomers were getting married and having kids, Chrysler came out with the minivan.

Not all boomers have become rich, and certainly many are struggling, so to say that our generation is the reason successive generations are not doing as well is a mistake. The economy was not created by them or any other generation but by the government. There are a lot of that generation in government, but there are also millennials and even Gen Z workers in government. If you want to blame someone else for your luck in life, good luck.

Among the many advances made by that generation, some are listed here:
1. DNA fingerprinting which allows this technology to help solve crimes as well as prove paternity or maternity.
2. The Apple computer
3. The world wide web
4. The portable dialysis machine.
5. The Flex-Foot Prosthesis
6. Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
7. The disposable cell phone
8. The Jarvik 7 implantable artificial heart

Those who created these advances were all the baby boomers who decided to do something instead of complaining about their lot in life. No one has been successful by complaining. They are successful because they had a vision to do something, made plans to implement that vision, and then carried it out. It is up to you and only you to be successful or not. The economy didn’t make you fail and neither did any other generation of people.