WHAT HAVE YOU IN YOURSELF?

WHAT HAVE YOU IN YOURSELF?

It is what you are, what you have in you that counts

It is the undeveloped resources in your mind

In your spirit, in that inward man that counts

It is the developing of the writer, the thinker,

The teacher, the inventor, the leader, the business

Manager that is hidden deep in you that is important

I venture that every one of you

Young men and women who read

This have in you one of these abilities

There may be an untrained voice

Untrained musical abilities lying hidden

Under the careless thoughtless exterior

Let us go down with a flashlight

And look over the untouched treasures

That are stored away inside

That have never been touched

Never been used

Then let us bring the thing up that we find

And make it worth while

Give it a commercial value

For remember that everything that goes

Toward making you a success is inside of you

The thing that makes opportunities

That makes money

That saves money

That creates new things

That brings together

Things that others have created

But were unable to utilize

Is inside of you

Find it and make it work

It is going to require a boss who is utterly

Heartless to rule over you

The boss is inside of you

There is a slave driver in there

Whom you must bring out

Put the whip in his hand

And tell him to go to it

And make you a success

There is something in you

That can take these dreams of yours

And make blue prints of them

And then can change the blue prints

Into buildings

It is there

That ability is there

No one else can train it

No one else can develop it

Someone else may set it on fire

But you can quench the fire

By refusing to act.

Remember that you must

Use the suggestions that come

You must rise up and put the thing over

You must drive yourself

For no one else can do it

Put yourself on a mental diet

Not a diet of idle dreams

Nor idle fancies

But a diet of real mental work

Be mentally awake and diligent

Put your best into every day

Make up your day

Of saved moments and hours

You are out to win

You are out to conquer

You can do it

It would be different

If this ability were in someone else

And you were trying to awaken it

It is all in you and you are going to put it over.

Culled from E.W. Kenyon

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