What would the world have lost if you had not been born?

What would the world gain now that you have been born?

 We will never know the wealth planted in you until you bring it up. There’s always something in you that we haven’t yet seen. It is necessary for you to release your ability before you die. Use the power and strength within you for the good of yourself and others. I believe there are books, songs, art works, businesses, poems, inventions, cures, and investments in you that are intended for your children and future grandchildren to benefit from and enjoy. There are skills, talents, and unique aspects of personality packaged in you for the good of the world-use them.

Don’t rob your generation of your latent ability. Many have robbed me—they’ve also robbed you. To die with your ability is the greatest harm you can do to this world.What will the world lack because you fail to live out your potential?Don’t be like batteries in a radio that is never played—the potential of the battery has been wasted. And as the popular slogan emphasizes

The wealthiest spot on this planet is not the oil fields of Iraq or Saudi Arabia. Neither is it the gold of South Africa, the diamond mines of Botswana, the uranium mines of the Soviet Union, or the silver mines of Africa. Though it may surprise you, the richest deposits on our planet lie just a few blocks from your house. They rest in your local cemetery or graveyard. Buried beneath the soil within the walls of those sacred grounds are dreams that never came to pass, songs that were never sung, books that were never written, paintings that never filled a canvas, ideas that were never shared, visions that never became reality, inventions that were never designed, plans that never went beyond the drawing board of the mind, and purposes that were never fulfilled.

You just have to decide whether you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you. It’s your choice.

Adetayo Ojo is a motivational and inspirational writer and publisher at www.ojoadetayo.blogspot.com and tweets at @AdetayoOjo.

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