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Have/ going for you is and idiomatic expression from the early ‘60.

If you have something going for you, or if something has something going for it, there are certain advantages that will make the end result successful:

  • They've got a happy marriage, great careers, wonderful kids - in fact they've got everything going for them.

Usage as evidenced by Google Books is most often correct with only a few instances of the use of the reflexive pronoun.

I’d avoid using the reflexive pronoun even though the meaning is clear, so we could say that its usage is non standard.

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