START WHERE YOU ARE

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 for 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 what he will do with the things he has’’. Each of us has an ability to begin to create what we need from something that is already here.
Everyone tends to 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 other had.
Epicurus said, ‘’Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for’’. Henri 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. Everyone who has arrived had to begin where they were.
The truth is, you can’t know what you can do until you try. The most important catalyst to reaching your dream is starting right where you are. Edward Hail said, ‘’I cannot do everything , but I can still do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do’’.
No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope or fear;
But grateful, take the good I find,
The best of now and here
(John Greenleaf Whittier)