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| DEMONSTRATE GODLY CHARACTER IN LEADERSHIP |
MOST of us are like wild land—undeveloped.
We show signs of real wealth, but it is lying underneath the roots and stumps and refuse that need to be cleared away to make the soil usable. Here is a voice with marvelous timbre, but no training. They write across it, "Unusable, undeveloped."Here is a face with a smile that has wrapped up in it a fortune, but the mind back of it is untrained, unfit, unready. We write across it, "Unavailable." What we need is hard work, not work on impulse, but on principle. We need to drive ourselves until we have developed the rich resources within us.
The time to do it is now. Begin today to clean up that rich bottom land in your nature, and get it into production at once. Make everything swing into line now to the one great objective of your life.
Determine your future; settle what you are going to do and then make every day pay tribute.
Form habits of study, habits of industry. Learn to save the moments; the hours will take care of themselves.
Form the habit of concentration, downright hard thinking. Drive your mind. Become an absolute slave-driver over your own faculties. They are your slaves, your servants. Make them work. Make them study. Make them develop. Kill laziness and that droning habit of dreaming. Transform it into vital energy. Set the dynamo of a tremendous purpose loose inside of you.
Indecision and wastefulness of ability and time must be destroyed.
Fight for time.It is the most valuable asset you have.
Cut every corner. Save every moment.
Be exact with yourself.
