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♥ The Only Place To Start Is Where You Are ♥

Saturday, May 26, 2007

By John L.Mason, An Enemy Called Average

Start with what you have, not with what you don’t have. Opportunity is always where you are, never where you were. To get anywhere you must launch out from somewhere, or you will get nowhere. Hamilton Mabie said, “The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and education advantages, but with what he will do with the things he has.” God will always give us the ability to create what we need from something that is already here.

Each person tends to either underrate or overrate that which they do not possess. Ed Howe said, “People are always neglecting something they can do and trying to do something they can’t do.” I agree with Teddy Roosevelt when he said, “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” The only way to learn anything thoroughly is by starting at the bottom (except when learning how to swim). To be successful, do what you can.

Ken Keys Jr. said, “To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.” The truth is that many are successful because they didn’t have the advantages others had. Successful people accomplish more than others because they go ahead and do it before they are ready.

Epicurus said, “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that you now have was once among the things only hoped for.” Henry Amiel observed, “Almost everything comes from almost nothing.”

No improvement is so certain as that which proceeds from the right and timely use of what you already have. Mike Murdock said “Whatever God has already given to you will create anything else He has promised to you.” Everyone who has arrived has to begin where they were.

The truth is, you can’t know what you can do until you try. The most important thing about reaching your dream is starting right where you are. Edward hail said, “I cannot do everything, but I still do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”

“NO LONGER FORWARD NOR BEHIND
I LOOK IN HOPE OR FEAR;
BUT, GRATEFUL, BUT TAKE THE GOOD I FIND,
THE BEST OF NOW AND HERE.”
-John Greenleaf Whittier-

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