WHAT ARE YOUR WORTH?

WHAT ARE YOUR WORTH?

What value do you place on yourself?

Have you ever taken an inventory

Or have you just said

"Well, I know I could do it if I would

I believe I can sing better than

That person who is singing now."

Or, "I believe I could build a business."

Or, "I could be this or I could be that."

Are you going to be what you could be?

Honestly, are you worth anything

In your own estimation?

Have you set a price on yourself?

Have you set a price on your own ability

On your own time?

What is your word worth to yourself?

When you say, "I will get that lesson,"

"I will conquer that subject,"

"I will master that problem,"

Is your word worth anything?

Do you make your word come true

When you say, "I will give that up

I will put that thing over?"

What is that word worth to you?

Have you faith in your own word?

I am not asking what your word is worth outside

Pride may make you keep your word with people

But do you keep your word with yourself?

You are too valuable to barter away the finest part

Of manhood or womanhood—your word

You are worth more to yourself

Likely, than to anyone else

But by a year from now

Can you make yourself so valuable

That men will pay any price for you?

Great corporations are looking for men and women

Who can earn fifty thousand dollars a year

Set your mark—your standard—high

Then go up there

Allow no day to go by

In which you have not improved yourself

Take an inventory again and again

And see what you possess

See whether that possession is more valuable today

Than it was a year ago

Find where your ability lies

Then put all of your best into that ability

And make that ability come across and put you over

Remember that what you have hungered

And earned to do

You have the ability to do—if you will.

Culled from E.W. Kenyon

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