Hi, this is David. Have you thought about starting a retail business? When you think about

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Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the inspirational living podcast.

Today's reading was edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas, published in 1917.

A just appreciation of your gifts is necessary for their fullest development.

You cannot improve yourself until you have found out what needs

improving. So let me just put down the common attributes of personal power, so that you can

ask yourself which you are deficient in, and which you possess in good measure. You will then be in a position to make plans

for using the gifts which will help you, as well as for developing those which you will need

if you are to force yourself forward. Here they are, not necessarily in their order of importance to you, but just a list of those

qualities which you must develop, to be sure you realize your possession of the gift of power.

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