It's important to have constants in life. It's also good and useful to have novelty.
Today is not here just so it can be an exact repeat of yesterday. Honor each new day by filling it with new experience and substance.
Don't hold yourself back by keeping yourself imprisoned in the same old routine. Outside that routine are great and wonderful possibilities waiting to be explored.
Be satisfied with how far you've come, and eager to keep on going in new and exciting ways. Life's beauty knows no limit, so don't limit yourself to what you're already familiar with.
Seek out new things to do and new ways to do them. Enjoy discovering new challenges, new opportunities and new ways to create new forms of value.
Life begins again in every moment. Use the opportunity to add new and fulfilling richness to your world.
-- Ralph Marston
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Monday, July 30, 2012
Focused and relaxed
Focus intently on whatever you're doing, but not in a way that makes you uptight. Keep yourself relaxed about what you're doing, but not in a way that makes you careless.
Staying focused and staying relaxed do not have to oppose each other. In fact, they work extremely well together.
You can pay very close attention to what you do, while at the same time not letting it get you all wound up. You can truly relax and enjoy the task while also giving your very best to it.
Don't think of being focused and highly effective as being something you must fight and strive to attain. Think of it as an extremely fulfilling, natural state, because that's precisely what it is.
Give yourself permission to enjoy and to relax into a powerful, authentic focus. Feel how great it feels to calmly perform at your highest level.
Choose to stay highly focused and peacefully relaxed. And enjoy the experience of being your very best.
-- Ralph Marston
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Staying focused and staying relaxed do not have to oppose each other. In fact, they work extremely well together.
You can pay very close attention to what you do, while at the same time not letting it get you all wound up. You can truly relax and enjoy the task while also giving your very best to it.
Don't think of being focused and highly effective as being something you must fight and strive to attain. Think of it as an extremely fulfilling, natural state, because that's precisely what it is.
Give yourself permission to enjoy and to relax into a powerful, authentic focus. Feel how great it feels to calmly perform at your highest level.
Choose to stay highly focused and peacefully relaxed. And enjoy the experience of being your very best.
-- Ralph Marston
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Saturday, July 28, 2012
Your moment to use
By putting something off until later you make it more difficult. Do it now and make it easier on yourself.
The more you procrastinate, the less likely it is that you'll ever get it done. Do it now, before the opportunity is gone forever.
The time, energy and creativity you put into making excuses is completely wasted, because those excuses have no value. Instead of making more excuses, get the work done and get some real, tangible rewards for your efforts.
If you wait until conditions are perfect, you'll be waiting forever. Instead, go with what you have, with the situation as it is, and get it done.
You can't build value from what you're thinking about doing someday. You can't live your dreams if you never act on them.
Put your dreams into action, get the work done, and really, truly live the life you most fondly imagine. Now is the moment you have, and now is your moment to use.
-- Ralph Marston
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The more you procrastinate, the less likely it is that you'll ever get it done. Do it now, before the opportunity is gone forever.
The time, energy and creativity you put into making excuses is completely wasted, because those excuses have no value. Instead of making more excuses, get the work done and get some real, tangible rewards for your efforts.
If you wait until conditions are perfect, you'll be waiting forever. Instead, go with what you have, with the situation as it is, and get it done.
You can't build value from what you're thinking about doing someday. You can't live your dreams if you never act on them.
Put your dreams into action, get the work done, and really, truly live the life you most fondly imagine. Now is the moment you have, and now is your moment to use.
-- Ralph Marston
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Friday, July 27, 2012
Your image
The best way to look good is to be good. The best way to look like a professional is to authentically and consistently act in a professional manner.
Your real image is not based on what you seek to tell people or show people it is. Your image in the minds of others is based on how you truly are.
If you're mainly focused on projecting an image, you're guaranteeing that your image will be shallow and insincere. Instead, put your energy into living and working with honesty, integrity and creativity.
Let yourself genuinely be yourself, without being obsessed about how others see you. What they will see, and respect, is your authenticity.
Truly be the way you wish to be seen. Instead of cultivating a mere image, build a life filled with rich and compelling substance.
If you want to appear impressive, then be impressive. Truly embrace and fully live your best possibilities, and your image will easily take care of itself.
-- Ralph Marston
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Your real image is not based on what you seek to tell people or show people it is. Your image in the minds of others is based on how you truly are.
If you're mainly focused on projecting an image, you're guaranteeing that your image will be shallow and insincere. Instead, put your energy into living and working with honesty, integrity and creativity.
Let yourself genuinely be yourself, without being obsessed about how others see you. What they will see, and respect, is your authenticity.
Truly be the way you wish to be seen. Instead of cultivating a mere image, build a life filled with rich and compelling substance.
If you want to appear impressive, then be impressive. Truly embrace and fully live your best possibilities, and your image will easily take care of itself.
-- Ralph Marston
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Positive power
Your most formidable obstacle is you. If you are unwilling, or filled with doubt, you simply cannot get very far.
All the other challenges and limitations, you can find a way around. Yet when you persist in holding yourself back, nothing can move you forward.
The extremely good news is, you never have to continue holding yourself back. You can be entirely free of your most stubborn burden simply by choosing to be.
Your doubts are yours by choice, and you can choose to let them go. Your apathy, lack of ambition, and negativity are yours by choice, and you can be free of them all in an instant.
There are many difficult challenges to living a life of success and fulfillment. Yet once you get the positive power of your own authentic purpose on your side, you have what it takes to handle everything else.
Instead of being your own biggest obstacle, choose to be your own most effective advocate and facilitator of success. You have the power to choose in every moment, so choose again and again to live the richest, most meaningful life you can imagine.
-- Ralph Marston
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All the other challenges and limitations, you can find a way around. Yet when you persist in holding yourself back, nothing can move you forward.
The extremely good news is, you never have to continue holding yourself back. You can be entirely free of your most stubborn burden simply by choosing to be.
Your doubts are yours by choice, and you can choose to let them go. Your apathy, lack of ambition, and negativity are yours by choice, and you can be free of them all in an instant.
There are many difficult challenges to living a life of success and fulfillment. Yet once you get the positive power of your own authentic purpose on your side, you have what it takes to handle everything else.
Instead of being your own biggest obstacle, choose to be your own most effective advocate and facilitator of success. You have the power to choose in every moment, so choose again and again to live the richest, most meaningful life you can imagine.
-- Ralph Marston
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Easy and comfortable
If you want to be comfortable, get a good mattress, and have a good, comfortable eight hours of sleep each night. Then, with the other sixteen hours in every day, you can enthusiastically deal with the difficult challenges, knowing that soon you'll be in your comfortable bed again.
A life filled with nothing but ease and comfort is a very empty life indeed. If all you do is what's easy and comfortable, you'll miss out on all but a tiny fraction of life's richness.
The most authentically fulfilling things are not the easiest things. You know that from past experience.
The times you'll treasure most are the times when you're able to make a real and meaningful difference. To bring true, lasting value into your world you must venture away from what's easy and comfortable.
If you wish to choose success and achievement, then you must choose to be comfortable with not being comfortable some of the time. The easy things have already been done, so choose to do the difficult, complicated, challenging things that will bring great value.
In the long run, easy is not really so easy, because it leads to painful regret for the opportunities missed. Avoid saddling your future self with that regret by jumping fully into life in every waking moment.
-- Ralph Marston
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A life filled with nothing but ease and comfort is a very empty life indeed. If all you do is what's easy and comfortable, you'll miss out on all but a tiny fraction of life's richness.
The most authentically fulfilling things are not the easiest things. You know that from past experience.
The times you'll treasure most are the times when you're able to make a real and meaningful difference. To bring true, lasting value into your world you must venture away from what's easy and comfortable.
If you wish to choose success and achievement, then you must choose to be comfortable with not being comfortable some of the time. The easy things have already been done, so choose to do the difficult, complicated, challenging things that will bring great value.
In the long run, easy is not really so easy, because it leads to painful regret for the opportunities missed. Avoid saddling your future self with that regret by jumping fully into life in every waking moment.
-- Ralph Marston
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Focus on results
Progress comes when you focus on results. Progress happens when you visualize the results you desire, when you expect those results, and then work to make them happen.
Focus on results, and you can figure out how to bring them about. Focus on results, and you have a way to know, in each and every step, whether or not you're making progress.
Good intentions are nice, and sophisticated methods are impressive. What really count, though, are the end results.
Any effort you undertake will use your precious time and resources. Make sure you get the most value in return by staying focused on the results.
Don't allow yourself to remain stuck in mediocrity. Don't fool yourself into thinking you're doing great when you're really doing not much at all.
Clearly and specifically define the results you seek, measure your progress, and weigh each action, each effort, accordingly. Focus on results and you'll get the very best ones.
-- Ralph Marston
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Focus on results, and you can figure out how to bring them about. Focus on results, and you have a way to know, in each and every step, whether or not you're making progress.
Good intentions are nice, and sophisticated methods are impressive. What really count, though, are the end results.
Any effort you undertake will use your precious time and resources. Make sure you get the most value in return by staying focused on the results.
Don't allow yourself to remain stuck in mediocrity. Don't fool yourself into thinking you're doing great when you're really doing not much at all.
Clearly and specifically define the results you seek, measure your progress, and weigh each action, each effort, accordingly. Focus on results and you'll get the very best ones.
-- Ralph Marston
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Monday, July 23, 2012
Abundance of opportunity
There is no shortage of opportunity. The more you make use of the opportunities, the more opportunities you make.
Opportunity does not get used up, no matter how many people make use of it. When opportunity is followed and fulfilled, it expands.
Problems create opportunities. And then the solutions to those problems create even more opportunities.
A meaningful, valuable opportunity demands much of you. When you give your effort, time and commitment to the opportunity, it becomes even more valuable and meaningful.
Don't be envious or resentful when others create great achievements from the opportunities. Those achievements bring increased opportunities with them.
Move forward with the best opportunities. And as you do, you'll create even better ones.
-- Ralph Marston
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Opportunity does not get used up, no matter how many people make use of it. When opportunity is followed and fulfilled, it expands.
Problems create opportunities. And then the solutions to those problems create even more opportunities.
A meaningful, valuable opportunity demands much of you. When you give your effort, time and commitment to the opportunity, it becomes even more valuable and meaningful.
Don't be envious or resentful when others create great achievements from the opportunities. Those achievements bring increased opportunities with them.
Move forward with the best opportunities. And as you do, you'll create even better ones.
-- Ralph Marston
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Saturday, July 21, 2012
Choose to actively live
Don't find an excuse. Find a way.
Don't figure out how to put it off until later. Use your energy and intelligence and time to get it done now.
Let go of the urge to complain about how things are. Remind yourself that you can make things better, and challenge yourself in each moment to do just that.
There's no need to be dismayed at how hard it will be. Choose instead to be enthusiastic about how much of a real difference you can make.
What really matters is not what's pushing against you. What matters is how authentically committed you are to moving forward.
Connect with that commitment, connect with your positive passion, and choose to actively live life for all it's worth. You absolutely can if you will, so do.
-- Ralph Marston
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Don't figure out how to put it off until later. Use your energy and intelligence and time to get it done now.
Let go of the urge to complain about how things are. Remind yourself that you can make things better, and challenge yourself in each moment to do just that.
There's no need to be dismayed at how hard it will be. Choose instead to be enthusiastic about how much of a real difference you can make.
What really matters is not what's pushing against you. What matters is how authentically committed you are to moving forward.
Connect with that commitment, connect with your positive passion, and choose to actively live life for all it's worth. You absolutely can if you will, so do.
-- Ralph Marston
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Friday, July 20, 2012
Grow stronger
Whatever happens, you can use it as a way to grow stronger. Every day can end up making you stronger.
You can complain about it, or you can grow stronger through it. You can worry about it, or you can grow stronger instead.
Don't let it make you frustrated, or resentful or dismayed. Let it motivate you to become stronger.
Instead of feeling sorry for yourself, feel what it feels like to respond with strength and clarity of positive purpose. Call upon the strength you have, and you will have more.
You are stronger than any circumstance, stronger than any thoughtless comment made by another, and stronger than any disappointment. You can adjust, adapt, and re-commit yourself again and again to moving forward.
You are already strong and capable and experienced. Use that strength to advance life's goodness, and grow stronger and stronger with each passing day.
-- Ralph Marston
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You can complain about it, or you can grow stronger through it. You can worry about it, or you can grow stronger instead.
Don't let it make you frustrated, or resentful or dismayed. Let it motivate you to become stronger.
Instead of feeling sorry for yourself, feel what it feels like to respond with strength and clarity of positive purpose. Call upon the strength you have, and you will have more.
You are stronger than any circumstance, stronger than any thoughtless comment made by another, and stronger than any disappointment. You can adjust, adapt, and re-commit yourself again and again to moving forward.
You are already strong and capable and experienced. Use that strength to advance life's goodness, and grow stronger and stronger with each passing day.
-- Ralph Marston
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
Grand adventure
Life can be astoundingly beautiful and rich. There are possibilities that go far beyond anything you could imagine.
Today is your opportunity to live the adventure. Right now is when you can find immense fulfillment in bringing life's best possibilities into being.
An entire universe, overflowing with abundance, stretches out in all directions from where you are. You can feel and see and know, you can learn, adapt and act, and you can fulfill your deep longing to make a real difference.
If you choose to fill your days with doubt, hesitation, self-pity and resentment, you miss out on the greatest opportunity ever. Choose instead to push enthusiastically forward every chance you get, and to fully live the adventure.
If you expect someone else to do it all for you, you'll end up with a whole lot of terribly painful regret. Make the commitment to take full, hearty, ambitious responsibility for making your life the grand adventure you know it can be.
You're never too old or too young or too poor or too rich. Each and every moment brings fresh, new opportunities for you to add to life's magnificent substance, including the one right now.
-- Ralph Marston
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Today is your opportunity to live the adventure. Right now is when you can find immense fulfillment in bringing life's best possibilities into being.
An entire universe, overflowing with abundance, stretches out in all directions from where you are. You can feel and see and know, you can learn, adapt and act, and you can fulfill your deep longing to make a real difference.
If you choose to fill your days with doubt, hesitation, self-pity and resentment, you miss out on the greatest opportunity ever. Choose instead to push enthusiastically forward every chance you get, and to fully live the adventure.
If you expect someone else to do it all for you, you'll end up with a whole lot of terribly painful regret. Make the commitment to take full, hearty, ambitious responsibility for making your life the grand adventure you know it can be.
You're never too old or too young or too poor or too rich. Each and every moment brings fresh, new opportunities for you to add to life's magnificent substance, including the one right now.
-- Ralph Marston
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Put it all to use
Nothing is too difficult and nothing is too complicated. Nothing is out of reach, and nothing is too outrageous.
Life is what it is, and you have the immense good fortune of being here, right now, to live it. So instead of working to place judgments on it, go ahead and live it.
Sure, some tasks are highly complex, and others demand large amounts of effort and commitment. The good news is that those are precisely the kinds of things you're so very good at.
It is indeed a blessing that life can be so demanding. After all, that's what gives life so many great and fulfilling possibilities.
Step up and claim the most valuable of your own amazing possibilities. Feel those good things that resonate most with you, and joyfully bring them to life.
You have great power, purpose, and ability. Choose in this moment, and again and again, to put it all to meaningful and effective use.
-- Ralph Marston
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Life is what it is, and you have the immense good fortune of being here, right now, to live it. So instead of working to place judgments on it, go ahead and live it.
Sure, some tasks are highly complex, and others demand large amounts of effort and commitment. The good news is that those are precisely the kinds of things you're so very good at.
It is indeed a blessing that life can be so demanding. After all, that's what gives life so many great and fulfilling possibilities.
Step up and claim the most valuable of your own amazing possibilities. Feel those good things that resonate most with you, and joyfully bring them to life.
You have great power, purpose, and ability. Choose in this moment, and again and again, to put it all to meaningful and effective use.
-- Ralph Marston
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Live and fulfill
There is so very much you can do. So go ahead and do it.
Life offers an endless variety of rich and immensely fulfilling experiences. So open yourself, and step forward to experience them.
You can make an enormous difference every day. You can really, truly matter, in beautiful and positive ways, so go ahead and give your best.
Remind yourself of how silly and self-defeating it is to worry and fret and second-guess yourself. You are here today, right now, to live and to fulfill, so let it be.
It is good to be uniquely you, and to feel great about who you are and what you're doing. So do what you know is good and right and truly fulfilling.
Every yearning is a yearning to more richly live and to more completely fulfill your beautiful purpose. Give effort and commitment and life to those yearnings, today and every day, and let the goodness flow.
-- Ralph Marston
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Life offers an endless variety of rich and immensely fulfilling experiences. So open yourself, and step forward to experience them.
You can make an enormous difference every day. You can really, truly matter, in beautiful and positive ways, so go ahead and give your best.
Remind yourself of how silly and self-defeating it is to worry and fret and second-guess yourself. You are here today, right now, to live and to fulfill, so let it be.
It is good to be uniquely you, and to feel great about who you are and what you're doing. So do what you know is good and right and truly fulfilling.
Every yearning is a yearning to more richly live and to more completely fulfill your beautiful purpose. Give effort and commitment and life to those yearnings, today and every day, and let the goodness flow.
-- Ralph Marston
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Monday, July 16, 2012
As you choose to be
You don't have to let the surroundings and occurrences of your world bring you stress. You can choose to give them love and appreciation.
Instead of handing out judgments about every little frustration, annoyance and disturbance, you can exude peace and positive purpose. Instead of letting life get to you, let real, authentic joy flow forth from you.
You are perfectly capable of being ever peaceful, even though you may not always be in peaceful surroundings. You are easily and naturally able to be continually positive, regardless of what may come your way.
The quality of your life in every moment is your decision. Peace is not a place or even an external condition, but a choice of how you are.
Let go of conflicting thoughts about how life is supposed to be. Live life simply and purely as you choose to be.
Enjoy the immense richness that is always within you, and around you, and extending infinitely out from you. Choose love, peace, joy and positive purpose in every moment, and feel how outstandingly good it is to give life your very best.
-- Ralph Marston
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Instead of handing out judgments about every little frustration, annoyance and disturbance, you can exude peace and positive purpose. Instead of letting life get to you, let real, authentic joy flow forth from you.
You are perfectly capable of being ever peaceful, even though you may not always be in peaceful surroundings. You are easily and naturally able to be continually positive, regardless of what may come your way.
The quality of your life in every moment is your decision. Peace is not a place or even an external condition, but a choice of how you are.
Let go of conflicting thoughts about how life is supposed to be. Live life simply and purely as you choose to be.
Enjoy the immense richness that is always within you, and around you, and extending infinitely out from you. Choose love, peace, joy and positive purpose in every moment, and feel how outstandingly good it is to give life your very best.
-- Ralph Marston
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Saturday, July 14, 2012
Whatever you can imagine
You are not your problems. You are not the world's problems.
You are not your possessions. You are not your job title, your social standing, your credit score or your bank balance.
You are a unique and beautiful spirit, immersed in a universe that's overflowing with abundance. You are a bundle of magnificent possibilities, with the desire and the skills to fulfill those possibilities.
You are able to enjoy beauty and to give love. You can create joy where it has not existed before and spread that joy far and wide.
You can brilliantly and successfully adapt and thrive in an endless variety of situations. You can focus your awareness and your efforts to bring into reality whatever you envision.
You are the wonderful and amazing person who can rise above all the pettiness and succeed no matter what. You are whatever you can imagine, so always, always, imagine the very best.
-- Ralph Marston
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You are not your possessions. You are not your job title, your social standing, your credit score or your bank balance.
You are a unique and beautiful spirit, immersed in a universe that's overflowing with abundance. You are a bundle of magnificent possibilities, with the desire and the skills to fulfill those possibilities.
You are able to enjoy beauty and to give love. You can create joy where it has not existed before and spread that joy far and wide.
You can brilliantly and successfully adapt and thrive in an endless variety of situations. You can focus your awareness and your efforts to bring into reality whatever you envision.
You are the wonderful and amazing person who can rise above all the pettiness and succeed no matter what. You are whatever you can imagine, so always, always, imagine the very best.
-- Ralph Marston
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Friday, July 13, 2012
Simply get it done
What you must do is a blessing. For it enables you to make a difference, to have an impact and to express your significance.
Do not fight against what you must do, or run from it, or put it off until later. Simply, and joyfully, and thankfully, get it done.
Find great fulfillment in every moment by giving your worthwhile efforts to the moment. Embrace every opportunity to make a positive contribution to the magnificent flow of life.
Don't worry that there's not enough time or that you're missing out on something else. This is life, right here and now, as it is, and you have the outstanding privilege of experiencing it.
Experience it to the fullest, by putting all of your focus and your enthusiasm into doing what must now be done. Feel the matchless joy of authentic being.
Each task is a powerful opportunity to add to the richness of your life. Give yourself to the effort, whatever it is, and give yourself more and more fulfillment.
-- Ralph Marston
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Do not fight against what you must do, or run from it, or put it off until later. Simply, and joyfully, and thankfully, get it done.
Find great fulfillment in every moment by giving your worthwhile efforts to the moment. Embrace every opportunity to make a positive contribution to the magnificent flow of life.
Don't worry that there's not enough time or that you're missing out on something else. This is life, right here and now, as it is, and you have the outstanding privilege of experiencing it.
Experience it to the fullest, by putting all of your focus and your enthusiasm into doing what must now be done. Feel the matchless joy of authentic being.
Each task is a powerful opportunity to add to the richness of your life. Give yourself to the effort, whatever it is, and give yourself more and more fulfillment.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright (c) 2012 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 4,500 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
In motion
When you're on a roll, keep going. When you're in a slump, get going.
Get in motion and stay in motion. The possibilities are far more powerful and more numerous when you're taking action.
If you're just sitting around doing nothing, you won't be too thrilled with whatever happens to come your way, if anything. When you get up and get moving, you can go any place and experience anything you choose.
Being patient is admirable but being lazy is not. Be eager and persistent about taking action, while being patient about letting the results come.
The way to have it done is to get up and get it done. The way to live the life of your dreams is to bring it about with focused action.
Get the power of momentum on your side and keep it there. Get in motion, stay in motion, and live life on your own very best terms.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright (c) 2012 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 4,500 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.
Get in motion and stay in motion. The possibilities are far more powerful and more numerous when you're taking action.
If you're just sitting around doing nothing, you won't be too thrilled with whatever happens to come your way, if anything. When you get up and get moving, you can go any place and experience anything you choose.
Being patient is admirable but being lazy is not. Be eager and persistent about taking action, while being patient about letting the results come.
The way to have it done is to get up and get it done. The way to live the life of your dreams is to bring it about with focused action.
Get the power of momentum on your side and keep it there. Get in motion, stay in motion, and live life on your own very best terms.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright (c) 2012 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 4,500 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The fact that you can
Not only are you already highly capable, you are capable of becoming even more capable. Exercise your capabilities, and nothing is beyond your reach.
When you've enjoyed great success you can step forward and create even more. When you encounter disappointments and obstacles, you can raise your own level of ability to get beyond them.
The way to make full and increasing use of your capabilities is to have an authentic reason. True desire will push your effectiveness higher and higher.
Know that you can, know why you must, and you'll find a way to get it done. Put your amazing abilities to good use by giving yourself a powerful and meaningful reason to do so.
Do not agonize over why you can't. Accept, acknowledge and express with your actions the fact that you can.
Every situation is your opportunity to put your dynamic capabilities to good use. Every day is a day in which you can make a real difference in a meaningful and effective way.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright (c) 2012 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 4,500 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.
When you've enjoyed great success you can step forward and create even more. When you encounter disappointments and obstacles, you can raise your own level of ability to get beyond them.
The way to make full and increasing use of your capabilities is to have an authentic reason. True desire will push your effectiveness higher and higher.
Know that you can, know why you must, and you'll find a way to get it done. Put your amazing abilities to good use by giving yourself a powerful and meaningful reason to do so.
Do not agonize over why you can't. Accept, acknowledge and express with your actions the fact that you can.
Every situation is your opportunity to put your dynamic capabilities to good use. Every day is a day in which you can make a real difference in a meaningful and effective way.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright (c) 2012 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 4,500 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Peaceful awareness
Open your awareness to the abundance. Open your awareness to the goodness and the possibilities.
Life is renewed in every moment. There is no need to keep re-fighting the battles of the past.
Relax, and let the fears dissolve. Be at peace, and allow the abundance to flow through you.
Send all your energy into all you love. Now is when opportunity is transformed into beautiful value.
Focus on what is good, what is right, what is true and meaningful. Give the whole of your presence to the best you can envision.
Let the richness into your awareness and into your life. Enjoy and love and live and create with no hesitation, free of worry and doubt.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright (c) 2012 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 4,500 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.
Life is renewed in every moment. There is no need to keep re-fighting the battles of the past.
Relax, and let the fears dissolve. Be at peace, and allow the abundance to flow through you.
Send all your energy into all you love. Now is when opportunity is transformed into beautiful value.
Focus on what is good, what is right, what is true and meaningful. Give the whole of your presence to the best you can envision.
Let the richness into your awareness and into your life. Enjoy and love and live and create with no hesitation, free of worry and doubt.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright (c) 2012 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 4,500 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.
Monday, July 9, 2012
Point the way forward
Don't let the worst of life get to you. Instead, let the best of life shine through you.
Let your attitude be based on your most positive vision rather than on what may or may not happen. When the world threatens to bring you down, choose to lift the world up.
Set a positive, purposeful agenda for the day and then follow through with action. Show all of life how beautiful and meaningful it can be by the way you live it.
There is enough dismay in the world without you adding to it. Do what is necessary to add to the joy, love, achievement and fulfillment.
Choose to be aggressively, respectfully and authentically positive. Point the way forward with your attitude and your actions.
Change life for the better by the way you look at it and by the way you live it. See the best, be your best, and make your world the best it can be.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright (c) 2012 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 4,500 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.
Let your attitude be based on your most positive vision rather than on what may or may not happen. When the world threatens to bring you down, choose to lift the world up.
Set a positive, purposeful agenda for the day and then follow through with action. Show all of life how beautiful and meaningful it can be by the way you live it.
There is enough dismay in the world without you adding to it. Do what is necessary to add to the joy, love, achievement and fulfillment.
Choose to be aggressively, respectfully and authentically positive. Point the way forward with your attitude and your actions.
Change life for the better by the way you look at it and by the way you live it. See the best, be your best, and make your world the best it can be.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright (c) 2012 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 4,500 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Some people
When you express your ideas, some people will criticize and reject those ideas and your expression of them. Go ahead and express them anyway, learn what you can from the feedback, and watch your confidence soar.
When you live your life with absolute fidelity to the authentic person you are, some people will laugh and make fun of you. Let them laugh, and let that laughter make your enjoyment of your own true fulfillment all the more sweet.
If you admit you don't know something, some people might think you're stupid or ignorant. Take comfort and satisfaction in reminding yourself that effective learning begins when you admit you do not know.
Create value with honesty and integrity, and some people will look for ways to take unfair advantage of you. Be smart, be aware, be diligent and you can always stay several steps ahead of their dishonesty.
Some people will complain and whine and berate you and spread vicious rumors about you behind your back. Yet you can always choose to let their negativity be their problem, and not yours.
Don't let the pettiness of some people slow you down for even a moment. Step forward with purpose, passion, positivity and confidence, and make your world the best it can be.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright (c) 2012 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 4,500 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.
When you live your life with absolute fidelity to the authentic person you are, some people will laugh and make fun of you. Let them laugh, and let that laughter make your enjoyment of your own true fulfillment all the more sweet.
If you admit you don't know something, some people might think you're stupid or ignorant. Take comfort and satisfaction in reminding yourself that effective learning begins when you admit you do not know.
Create value with honesty and integrity, and some people will look for ways to take unfair advantage of you. Be smart, be aware, be diligent and you can always stay several steps ahead of their dishonesty.
Some people will complain and whine and berate you and spread vicious rumors about you behind your back. Yet you can always choose to let their negativity be their problem, and not yours.
Don't let the pettiness of some people slow you down for even a moment. Step forward with purpose, passion, positivity and confidence, and make your world the best it can be.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright (c) 2012 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 4,500 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.
Friday, July 6, 2012
Original
Look for what has not been seen before. Say what has not been said before.
Seek to experience life in new and original ways. Today is a new day, so fill it with new substance.
If you're thinking the same thought over and over again, do something useful with that thought and then let it go. Make space for some real, original thoughts and experiences that are more than mere repeats.
Time always moves forward, so move forward with it. Use time to learn, to grow, to enjoy and achieve in ways you've never done before.
Pleasantly surprise yourself with how flexible and adaptable you can be. Delight yourself with new discoveries as the days and years unfold.
This day is a one-of-a-kind original, so live it in an original way. Life is renewed in every moment, and you can choose to be constantly fresh and renewed as well.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright (c) 2012 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 4,500 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.
Seek to experience life in new and original ways. Today is a new day, so fill it with new substance.
If you're thinking the same thought over and over again, do something useful with that thought and then let it go. Make space for some real, original thoughts and experiences that are more than mere repeats.
Time always moves forward, so move forward with it. Use time to learn, to grow, to enjoy and achieve in ways you've never done before.
Pleasantly surprise yourself with how flexible and adaptable you can be. Delight yourself with new discoveries as the days and years unfold.
This day is a one-of-a-kind original, so live it in an original way. Life is renewed in every moment, and you can choose to be constantly fresh and renewed as well.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright (c) 2012 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 4,500 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Changes for the better
If you want the world to be a better place, then work to make it a better place. If you see something as a problem, then take responsibility for implementing a workable solution.
It's a waste of time to prove how bad things are. Instead, put your thoughts, your passion, your energy and efforts into making things better.
When you find some aspect of life to be frustrating, or unjust, or abusive, don't complain or assign blame. Come up with a positive alternative.
Life changes in every moment. So use this moment to make some changes for the better.
The future does not have to equal the past. You can choose your future by what you do with what you have right now.
Just because you're in a difficult situation, doesn't mean you're stuck there. Make some changes for the better, and move your life in the direction you choose.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright (c) 2012 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 4,500 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.
It's a waste of time to prove how bad things are. Instead, put your thoughts, your passion, your energy and efforts into making things better.
When you find some aspect of life to be frustrating, or unjust, or abusive, don't complain or assign blame. Come up with a positive alternative.
Life changes in every moment. So use this moment to make some changes for the better.
The future does not have to equal the past. You can choose your future by what you do with what you have right now.
Just because you're in a difficult situation, doesn't mean you're stuck there. Make some changes for the better, and move your life in the direction you choose.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright (c) 2012 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 4,500 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Leave the stress behind
Much of what is stressful to you is what you've decided is stressful. What if you decided differently?
Feeling stressed in certain situations, or with certain tasks, or with certain people, is not a foregone conclusion. Rather, it's a way you choose to respond.
Sure, many things in life will challenge you greatly. Yet instead of letting those challenges get to you and make you stressful, you can choose a more powerful, effective response.
Instead of seeing yourself as fighting against the challenges, you can see yourself as thriving on them, and even enjoying them. Even when people and situations are extremely difficult, you can find great fulfillment in calmly working through them.
You can let others be stressed and angry and frustrated. All the while, you can choose to be peaceful and productive.
Life's difficulties don't have to bring you down, because you have what it takes to lovingly and purposefully deal with them. Choose to respond with a positive perspective, and leave the stress behind.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright (c) 2012 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 4,500 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.
Feeling stressed in certain situations, or with certain tasks, or with certain people, is not a foregone conclusion. Rather, it's a way you choose to respond.
Sure, many things in life will challenge you greatly. Yet instead of letting those challenges get to you and make you stressful, you can choose a more powerful, effective response.
Instead of seeing yourself as fighting against the challenges, you can see yourself as thriving on them, and even enjoying them. Even when people and situations are extremely difficult, you can find great fulfillment in calmly working through them.
You can let others be stressed and angry and frustrated. All the while, you can choose to be peaceful and productive.
Life's difficulties don't have to bring you down, because you have what it takes to lovingly and purposefully deal with them. Choose to respond with a positive perspective, and leave the stress behind.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright (c) 2012 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 4,500 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Unexpected
Something unexpected will happen today, and tomorrow, and every day. You can worry about what it might be, and fight against it when it comes, or you can accept it and deal with it in a positive way.
You cannot escape from life's uncertainty, and you really wouldn't want to. Although that uncertainty can bring pain, it can also bring great joy and powerful new positive possibilities.
What you can do is choose to grow stronger with each twist and turn. What you can do is learn, adapt, create, innovate and successfully adjust to life as it changes from day to day.
Uncertainty can sometimes be very disruptive and inconvenient and challenging. Fortunately, you have the skills to meet those challenges, and to move your life forward no matter what may come.
Though you can't know for sure what will happen in the future, you can know for sure that there's always a way to make the best of it. There's always a way to remain true to your most treasured values, and to live your life according to your highest vision.
Life is not always predictable, but that's no reason to fret. Because in that unpredictability, you'll always find valuable and meaningful new positive opportunities.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright (c) 2012 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 4,500 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.
You cannot escape from life's uncertainty, and you really wouldn't want to. Although that uncertainty can bring pain, it can also bring great joy and powerful new positive possibilities.
What you can do is choose to grow stronger with each twist and turn. What you can do is learn, adapt, create, innovate and successfully adjust to life as it changes from day to day.
Uncertainty can sometimes be very disruptive and inconvenient and challenging. Fortunately, you have the skills to meet those challenges, and to move your life forward no matter what may come.
Though you can't know for sure what will happen in the future, you can know for sure that there's always a way to make the best of it. There's always a way to remain true to your most treasured values, and to live your life according to your highest vision.
Life is not always predictable, but that's no reason to fret. Because in that unpredictability, you'll always find valuable and meaningful new positive opportunities.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright (c) 2012 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 4,500 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.
Monday, July 2, 2012
Worth all the trouble
Life is a lot of trouble. And life is worth all the trouble.
The best things can often be the most difficult things. So instead of running or hiding from the difficulties, courageously work through them.
Life is filled with great and valuable opportunities. The most valuable of those opportunities are the ones that ask the most of you.
When the frustrations come, be thankful for the chance to learn from them. When the disappointments come, be grateful for the opportunity to reaffirm and recommit to what's most important.
Life's many troubles will come and go. As they do, the positive possibilities grow more numerous and magnificent.
Embrace each day along with whatever it brings. And use it to add more joy to life no matter what.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright (c) 2012 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 4,500 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.
The best things can often be the most difficult things. So instead of running or hiding from the difficulties, courageously work through them.
Life is filled with great and valuable opportunities. The most valuable of those opportunities are the ones that ask the most of you.
When the frustrations come, be thankful for the chance to learn from them. When the disappointments come, be grateful for the opportunity to reaffirm and recommit to what's most important.
Life's many troubles will come and go. As they do, the positive possibilities grow more numerous and magnificent.
Embrace each day along with whatever it brings. And use it to add more joy to life no matter what.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright (c) 2012 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 4,500 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.
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