Just beyond impossible

When it seems like everything is breaking down, the time is ripe for a real breakthrough. In turmoil there is great opportunity.

When the only choice is to find a new way forward, you're in a great position to find that way. When you have nothing left to fall back on, you'll figure out how to move ahead.

What seems impossible is impossible only from your current perspective. Just beyond impossible is the chance to jump up to a higher level.

Imagine what you could accomplish if you were ten times as effective as you are right now. When circumstances are compelling enough, you are completely capable of making such a leap.

What challenges you, improves you. Whatever challenges you to the extreme can push you into a breakthrough.

Are you ready to move beyond impossible? Make your reasons meaningful enough, so that you have no other choice, and you will.

-- Ralph Marston

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Riches without end

Do you want to really feel good? Then feel thankful.

Do you wish to make a great impression? Then be appreciative.

Would you like to empower your actions? Then live and think and act with an ever-present sense of gratitude.

There is great wealth that already exists in your life. From that wealth you can draw the energy, the inspiration and the resources necessary to do anything.

Yet to benefit from that great wealth, you must sincerely appreciate it. When you truly realize how much you have, you also know, without a doubt, that you can achieve whatever you choose.

Every moment great and small is an opportunity to be thankful. And in thankfulness, there are riches without end.

-- Ralph Marston

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Bring your life to life

You are, now. What more could there possibly be?

Every possibility exists, and you are connected to them all. Plus, you are blessed with an innate desire to fulfill certain specific ones.

You could just sit and watch. But then you'd miss out on most of the fun.

For you are equipped and prepared to participate. As great as it is to be, it is far greater to be making a difference.

Somehow, in a way that is beautiful but defies explanation, you know. You know what you are here now to do.

Discover that purpose more fully in each moment as you find new ways to express it. Remember who you are and what you have, as you continue to bring your life to life.

-- Ralph Marston

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Go back

Sometimes the best way to move forward is to go back. Go back, into the experience of your life, and remind yourself why.

Go back and remember why you're where you are, why you're doing whatever you're doing. Go back and remember what truly matters to you.

In your mind, go back to a time and a place when life felt positively magical. Realize that the magical feeling is still very much a part of you.

See that now, too, is magical. Understand that your best possibilities are with you even now.

Go back and appreciate all the good things you have ever had. From a deep and profound sense of gratitude, know that in this very time is the potential for more joy than ever before.

Go back, and see that all the goodness that ever was, still is. Now, carry all that goodness with you as you continue to move positively forward.

-- Ralph Marston

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Let joy be you

Instead of arguing against it, let the joy come. Instead of being held back by what you perceive as being wrong, let the joy come.

There is nothing to feel guilty or wistful about. Just let the joy come.

In this moment are plenty of opportunities for joy. And the thing is, joy does not even need opportunity.

Whether it is reasonable or not, let joy come and let joy be. It is perfectly fine to feel and it is perfectly beautiful to experience.

Though there are all kinds of problems, there are more places than ever for joy to abide. Let go of the worries, let go of the inhibitions, and let joy flow.

Joy demands no conditions, so don't put any of your own conditions on it. Let joy be now, and let joy be you.

-- Ralph Marston

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Achievement and resentment

Achievement creates, and resentment destroys. Which kind of world would you prefer to live in -- a world of achievement or a world of resentment?

It is easy to be resentful of someone who has accomplished more than you. But what purpose does that resentment serve?

Instead of giving in to resentment, you can transform its energy into something that will actually do you some good. You can transform it into positive inspiration and driving ambition.

A thousand days spent in resentment will just make you old and dejected. A thousand days spent on achievement will create a rich and fulfilling life.

You were born to achieve and you have a strong desire to achieve. You're fully capable of following that desire, and of creating great and wonderful achievements for your world.

If you feel the urge to be resentful, stop. Think about it, think about your own best interest, and choose achievement instead.

-- Ralph Marston

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Make yourself a promise

What promise can you make to yourself today? What promise can you make to yourself, and keep?

You have made, and will continue to make, all sorts of commitments to others. If those commitments are to have any value, you must also be committed to yourself.

It's not the least bit selfish to be committed to yourself. Because being your absolute best, is what enables you to be of service to others.

Right now, you know of many ways in which you can strengthen and improve your value to yourself, and your value to life. Pick one of those ways, right now, and make a promise to yourself to follow through.

No matter how far you've already come, there is always some new and fulfilling ground to cover. Choose a fresh, challenging path, and commit to making your way along it.

Make yourself a promise. And give to all of life your own unique gift of achievement.

-- Ralph Marston

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Beyond strife

Don't worry about what you need. Don't worry about what you want.

In this moment, be free to be you. Give the value that you long to give.

Do the things that can make a difference. Do them out of love.

You don't have a job; you have a purpose. The way to achieve is to stop fretting about achievement.

Start loving the opportunity the moment holds. Success is not something you strive for and get, but comes from how authentic you allow yourself to be.

The beauty of now fills your world with possibility. Feel the love in your heart, and you know what to do.

-- Ralph Marston

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Attachment to desires

Explore, honor and get to intimately know all the details of your desires. But don't become overly attached to them.

Allow your desires to drive you forward. However, don't allow them to define you.

You have chosen those desires and you have what it takes to reach them. Yet after you achieve them, or even if you fail to achieve them, you are still you.

Even without those desires, you are still a unique and valuable person. Whatever you desire, as important as it can be, is only one expression of who you are.

If, for some reason or other, that expression is lost or is blocked, there remain many, many more ways to express your purpose. Remember that always, you are able to move positively forward in your own way.

Follow your dreams, fulfill your desires with all your passion and energy, while at the same time being willing to let them go. And you will know true fulfillment.

-- Ralph Marston

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Feel the abundance

Go ahead, and let yourself be wonderful. It's much, much easier than you think.

Nothing has to get you down unless you choose to get you down. Stop looking for reasons to place judgments on events and realize the abundance that always is.

Go ahead, and let your beautiful purpose flow out through your words and actions. Let go of the twisted reasoning that says you must hold yourself back.

It never makes sense to be any less than you are. Richness arises out of how much you put into each moment, not from what you hide away.

Instead of wasting your energy on blocking your true self, use that energy to create and fulfill and express in ways that are wonderful. Instead of constructing and maintaining doubt, release and nourish new joy.

It's so much easier to be who you are than to try and pretend who you're not. Go ahead, feel the abundance, and let yourself live its endless possibilities.

-- Ralph Marston

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Be in motion

Do all you can, when you can, with what you have. Though it may sometimes seem that you're not getting much accomplished, the only alternative is to get nothing accomplished.

To make progress you must be actively making an effort. With each effort, at the very least you gain experience, exposure, knowledge and competence.

To find what you're looking for, you must be looking. To come across a great opportunity, you must be in motion.

By all means, go ahead and dream big, wonderful and meaningful dreams. Then let those dreams motivate you to get up and get busy making them real.

Circumstances may indeed push against you, but they cannot hold you back. Always, there is something you can do, some move you can make, some new approach you can follow.

Jump into life, get yourself in motion, and make a positive difference every chance you get. Persist, keep yourself moving, and you'll absolutely get where you wish to go.

-- Ralph Marston

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Give yourself the best

Your life has a purpose. Your life has great value.

You deserve to more fully discover and delight in that value with each passing day. You deserve to express that purpose again and again in new ways with every dawning moment.

Of course there are problems and pains and frustrations and annoyances and inconveniences and discomforts. But all those things, even added together, cannot come close to being as powerful and compelling as the unique value of your life.

Take a moment to put everything in perspective. The possibilities and opportunities will always far outweigh the difficulties.

There is a whole big wonderful universe that's yours to explore and experience. There are ideas, relationships, feelings, achievements and joys just waiting for you to know them.

Today, give yourself what you deserve. Give yourself the best life that you can imagine living.

-- Ralph Marston

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Experience the adventure

There is no reason to avoid the effort. Because once you get started, the effort will feel great.

There is no need to fear what might happen. Because whatever happens, you'll be able to successfully deal with it.

You may be nice and comfortable where you are. By all means enjoy the moment you're in, but don't become so comfortable that you keep yourself stuck there.

Spreading out in all directions is a world full of possibilities. Get up, get out there, explore, achieve, fulfill, and experience.

Put your awareness, care and attention into this now moment. Then step forward to experience the adventure of the next moment.

Feel again, right now, all the joy you've ever known. With profound gratitude and the highest of expectations, get yourself making even more joyful experiences.

-- Ralph Marston

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Think and feel

You can think and you can feel. You can reason and you can abandon all reason.

You can understand logic and you can appreciate beauty. You can find great value in a mathematical formula and also in the chorus of crickets on a summer night.

Do you understand the limitless possibilities that arise from such a potent combination? Can you feel the power that lives within your spirit?

When your thoughts and your feelings support and encourage and amplify each other, truly great things happen. When your creativity is enabled by discipline, and when your thoughts are energized by passion, nothing is out of reach.

If your thoughts stray too far from your purpose, you can feel your way back. If your feelings keep you stuck in one place, you can think your way out.

You are one, and yet you can think as well as feel. Continue to more fully experience the wholeness of that miraculous contradiction, and you'll know that it is no contradiction at all.

-- Ralph Marston

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Triumph

Do more than just getting by. Make the choice to triumph, over adversity, over the circumstances, over your perceived limitations.

Choose to triumph and you are already on the way. You are no longer making excuses, and no longer using the troubles as reasons for avoiding action.

Live the life you know, deep inside, that you were born to live. Feel your purpose as it illuminates the rich possibilities in this very moment.

You have so very much to give. As you sincerely give of yourself, you make your world, and all of life, more beautiful and more valuable.

Step beyond the fear that you might lose something. Go forward with the confidence of knowing that there is value to be gained from every experience.

What value do you wish to gain, what new expression of your unique purpose do you wish to create right now? Go ahead and run with it, for this is your moment to triumph.

-- Ralph Marston

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While it's here

It doesn't do much good when you appreciate the value of a moment only after that moment has passed. By that time, it's really too late.

Instead, see the value of each moment while it is here. Live and experience that value while you still can.

The biggest regrets are for opportunities missed, for the things you could have done but didn't. Choose to deal in action rather than in regret.

Take the opportunity presented by each moment as the moment arrives. Dive into the richness before it fades away.

Life is filled with great abundance. But the abundance can't be saved for later unless you live it now.

Live it now, and make the most of it while it's here. And then, though the moment will soon pass, you'll always have its value.

-- Ralph Marston

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What you will do

Forget about what you can't do. Focus on what you will do.

Dream big dreams and make workable plans that will get you there. Then put those plans into action and do what you will do.

Allow the beauty and richness of your dreams to expand your concept of what you are willing to do. This is your life and you deserve to give yourself the very best.

Intensely feel the accomplishment in your imagination. Let that incomparable feeling of satisfaction push you forward.

Focus on what you will do and you'll discover that it is more than enough. You have within you the capacity, the ability and the drive to reach whatever dreams are meaningful to you.

Every day is an opportunity for richness and fulfillment. Feel what you will do, and why, and make today the best one yet.

-- Ralph Marston

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Act your way there

How do you want to feel today? You can create whatever feeling you choose, with your actions.

Your feelings are not imposed on you from the outside. They occur because you exercise strategies to make them occur.

Yes, some of those strategies may include the way you choose to respond to events beyond your control. Yet it is the response, the chosen response within you, that creates the feeling, not the outside situation.

So how exactly do you wish to feel today? Then act like it.

The actions you take will create the feelings you seek. If you want to feel happy, and empowered, and fulfilled, then go through the physical motions of being happy, empowered and fulfilled.

It really is as simple as that. When you act like it, you are.

-- Ralph Marston

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Wealth of experience

You've been building value within you all your life. It is the priceless value of experience, and every bit of it is still with you.

Today you have more than you've ever had. Think of all the good and useful things you can do with that wealth of experience.

From every victory, from every defeat, that experience grows wiser and more valuable. And now, in this moment, you can utilize the value of your lifelong experience to create even more value.

Your perspective is unique, and from that perspective you can build a richness of living that is perfectly suited to you. What's more, you can share that richness with those around you to make it even more fulfilling.

What a great opportunity you have. And you do indeed have it, wherever you are and whatever you've been through.

Feel, appreciate and explore your living and growing wealth of experience. You are worth far more than you can ever imagine, so imagine the very best and bring it to life.

-- Ralph Marston

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Today's treasures

Life comes to you in great abundance. There's no need to gulp it.

Lovingly taste each moment as it comes. Take care not to hurry past the richness that is already here.

Tomorrow's treasures can wait until tomorrow. Live today's treasures while they are here.

Give yourself time to absorb the goodness of now in all its bounty. Give yourself time to live with meaning, instead of just rushing through.

There is more than enough available to you already. Instead of striving toward what's next, make the most of what's now.

It is all here, now. Live the abundance in your own special way.

-- Ralph Marston

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No day is wasted

Living with purpose and clear focus helps you to understand the value of being meaningfully focused. And aimlessly wandering with no clear focus can also help you to appreciate the power of a positive purpose.

Either way, life leads you surely, steadily toward your purpose. Whether you experience the pain of losing touch with that purpose, or the joy of living in harmony with it, you grow in understanding and appreciation.

No day, no experience, no encounter is really wasted. Through the ups and downs, in the good times and in times of despair, you feel more intensely the longing to express who you truly are.

The beauty of this day is not in its particulars. The beauty is that you can take it all in, whatever and however it may be, and add it to the substance of your being.

Whatever comes along, be thankful for the opportunity to pass through it. Whatever is, go with it and grow with it.

Your purpose cannot help but become stronger, as each moment passes. Feel that strength, and live it more fully, more authentically, day after day.

-- Ralph Marston

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Let your world be wonderful

What dream would you now like to make into reality? What joy do you now wish to experience?

What beauty will you behold before this day is finished? What feeling would feel best to you right now?

Breathe in the sweetness of all that is good in this bright moment. Taste the possibilities that arise from endless abundance.

Though the challenges and concerns are real, so are the most magnificent of possibilities. Imagine the best of what can be, and find true delight in making it real.

Let your world be wonderful today. Let your moments be filled with life and passion and purpose.

Do you see how extraordinary this day can be? See it, live it, and it is.

-- Ralph Marston

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Persist

Sometimes what you think will work great, doesn't work at all. But that doesn't mean that nothing will work.

Sometimes you build your hopes up, only to be disappointed. But that doesn't mean that your hopes have lost their value.

On the contrary, your hopes and ideas have great value, even though they may expose you to great frustration. Though it may be over difficult and uneven terrain, they do push you forward.

Your ideas are still valid, your hopes are still justified, and your dreams are still alive. Pick yourself up, adjust your approach based on what you've learned, and make another attempt.

Feel the joy of knowing that you can persevere. Transform the power of the challenge into your own inner strength.

Grow your way forward, through the triumphs and the setbacks. Persist, and anything is within your reach.

-- Ralph Marston

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Do what matters

Do what matters, not just what is convenient. Do what is fulfilling, not just what is easy.

Just being busy will not lead you to anything of value. Instead, challenge yourself to be effective in the service of a meaningful purpose.

Any particular stretch of your time can be infinitely valuable or it can be hopelessly worthless. Which will it be right now, on this very day?

See that every moment has the potential for soaring greatness. Let your words and actions, your thoughts and deeds express that potential in your own special way.

There are many skills that must be studied and developed, and you can choose the ones you wish to acquire. The skill of living, however, need only be allowed, for it is already within you.

Live with richness, with great fulfillment and joy and substance. Do what matters, what really matters, and delight in being the unique, beautiful person you are.

-- Ralph Marston

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The most positive response

Tell yourself often that problems can be transformed into opportunities. Challenge yourself to find and to appreciate examples in the real world around you.

Then, when a difficult problem drops into your own life, you'll be ready. You'll instinctively seek out the most positive, effective and valuable response.

Imagine being able to draw real value out of every situation. Imagine it consistently, and you will begin to do it.

Though you don't know exactly what they will be, you do know that the challenges will come. So how do you prepare?

Develop and strengthen the belief that whatever may come, you can make something good out of it. Then you'll be ready to do precisely that.

Instead of being overwhelmed, be ready. When the time comes, you'll know just what to do, and more importantly, you'll do it without a second thought.

-- Ralph Marston

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Reliable focus

Staying focused is a matter of reminding yourself. Can you find a way to remind yourself, again and again, of why you're doing what you do?

Sure you can. There are plenty of ways to direct your attention back to your purpose when you feel it wandering off.

The more intensely you can feel that purpose, and the more quickly you can call up that feeling, the more successfully you'll be able to stay focused. So do yourself a favor, and practice.

Spend some quiet time, away from the distractions, and enjoy truly feeling the substance of your most treasured desires. As you do, make note of precisely how it feels, to you, to be connected in a positive way with those desires.

Feel yourself living and experiencing the richness of life that will come from the fulfillment of your desires. Make that reason, that purpose, a palpable part of who you are.

Then, when you return to the world of confusion and distraction, choose to call up those positive feelings. When you wish to improve your focus, learn to be the one who can reliably deliver it.

-- Ralph Marston

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Let yourself know

Those who achieve, do not know that they can't. Those who fail to achieve, do not realize that they can.

What do you believe you can do? What do you think you cannot do?

Whatever it is, you are right. Now imagine what would happen if you raised your expectations.

Make your dreams so compelling that you forget about what you thought you could not do. And sure enough, you'll soon find yourself doing it.

Consider each skill, each ability, and realize that those skills and abilities can grow. Look at the accomplishments you've already reached, and see the possibilities for building on them.

See the very real continuum between the value you've already created and the goals you wish to reach. Let yourself know you can, and you will.

-- Ralph Marston

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