Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast.

Today's reading was edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox, published in 1905.

There's not much difference between the person who is succeeding and the other who isn't. Between the person who is

taking big strides onward and the other who is doing only fairly well. One has discovered

themselves and the other has not. One knows they can do things, and the other is not sure. We are more

capable than we think we are. We don't expect as much of ourselves as we should. We too

frequently judge ourselves by what we are, instead of what we may become by adding

just a little more energy and thought to our efforts.

The rate at which your capacity for doing things can be developed is wonderful.

You can do but a little today, but by doing that little and doing it with

snap and energy, you are a stronger person tomorrow. You can do more. In the next day a new

idea is evolved in your mind. You begin to think, and thinking is what makes the woman and man,

not thinking alone, but thinking and putting those thoughts into action.

The dreamer thinks, but doesn't accomplish anything because they don't act.

Get a person sufficiently aroused to know that they can do something,

and the idea sets them on fire with enthusiasm,

and marks an epoch in their life.

An emergency comes up,

and the person is surprised that they did so well. They at last have

found themselves, for doing better than you expect is to find oneself. It isn't so very hard to do.

There's not so much to find at first, but what you do find grows

with amazing rapidity. The possibility is there. All it needs is to be brought out into

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