Do something about it

Are you frustrated and burned out? What are you going to do about it?

Is there something you really want to achieve? What are you going to do about it?

Have you just become aware of an incredible opportunity? What are you going to do about it?

What are you going to do today, right this moment? What actions will you take to end your frustration, to achieve your dream, to take advantage of opportunity?

Success and achievement depend not on how much you complain, or on your ability to garner sympathy from others, but on what you do. And right now is the time to start.

Go ahead and move beyond the frustration, begin to work toward the dream, and make the most of your best possibilities. Go ahead right now and do something positive and effective about it.

-- Ralph Marston

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Tell yourself

What are you telling yourself that's holding you back? What are you telling yourself that's preventing you from being happy?

What are you telling yourself that gives you permission to be less than your very best? What are you telling yourself that gives you an excuse for not taking action.

Every moment of every day you're interpreting the world for yourself, telling yourself what it means and what to do about it. Each time you tell yourself something, you have an opportunity to make a lasting impact on your life.

So tell yourself yes. Remind yourself why you have chosen to step forward and give yourself permission to do so.

Tell yourself that you can choose a life of joy and fulfillment right now. Tell yourself that you're fully capable of whatever you decide to achieve.

Take the opportunity to tell yourself, again and again, how truly outstanding your life can be. And then thank yourself for the great advice as you enthusiastically bring it to life.

-- Ralph Marston

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Living quality

The distractions will always be there, but the opportunities of this moment won't. As compelling as those distractions might be, let them fall behind you as you act on your best possibilities right now.

The excuses for not taking action make a lot of sense, yet there is no real value in even the most reasonable, sensible excuse. Instead of being stopped by why you can't, be energized by why you must.

The quality of your life is up to you, at all times, in all situations. You have the opportunity to creatively imagine an outstanding life for yourself, and then to bring what you imagine into the reality of your world.

The excuses and distractions and setbacks and frustrations are all hopelessly insignificant when compared to your best possibilities. Stay focused on the good and positive things that mean the most to you, and you'll transcend the small bumps along the way with grace and ease.

Get caught up in the wonder and the substance of being, and the trivial distractions will have no power over you. Feel the joy that emanates from your purpose and you'll grow stronger with each passing day.

The richness of your life has no limits. Choose today, and always, to let that richness continue to unfold.

-- Ralph Marston

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Joyful life

Even when there's no good reason to enjoy life, enjoy it anyway. Discover the delightful truth that joy is its own best reason.

Truly enjoy the place where you are, and you make it even better. Find joy in the moment you're now living, and you'll multiply the treasures that the moment can bring.

You won't hurt anyone else by enjoying who you are and what you're doing. On the contrary, your own joy can bring much joy to those around you.

Instead of assuming that you must struggle, enjoy the process of moving through each challenge. When you choose to enjoy what you're doing, the effort comes more easily and with greater effectiveness.

Decide that life is a joy and you'll find all sorts of ways to reinforce and build upon that decision. The joy you seek is already yours, so let it flow freely from within you.

Give your life the power of joy right now, and always. For whatever you sincerely enjoy, you're able to easily and naturally master.

-- Ralph Marston

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Interconnected

Taking positive action in one area of your life can lead to surprising improvements in many other areas of your life. For you are one whole person, and anything you do makes a difference in everything you are.

It all matters and it all affects you. The life you experience is the sum of every thought, every word spoken, every gesture and every effort.

If you find it difficult to be positive about one particular area of your life, then be extraordinarily positive about other areas of your life. That additional positive energy will spill over into all of your world.

All the parts of your life are interconnected in ways that it's difficult to even imagine. The result is that there are always plenty of opportunities for taking positive steps.

For even when you feel completely blocked in one area, there are many other areas of your life in which you can quickly and easily make improvements. Success and achievement feel great in whatever venue they occur.

Feel genuinely positive, even if it's just about one little thing. And the energy radiates through the entirety of your world.

-- Ralph Marston

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Responsible

You cannot avoid responsibility. You can either suffer the painful consequences of ignoring it, or you can enjoy the outstanding benefits of acknowledging and accepting responsibility.

You are responsible for your life and for the world around you. When you feel the full extent of that responsibility, and connect it to your authentic purpose, you can do truly amazing things.

Why would you want to accept responsibility for circumstances that are not of your making? Because responsibility gives you the power to change things.

If something affects you, then you have the opportunity to be positively and creatively responsible for it. Even if you didn't create the situation, you can still make the very best of it.

Responsibility is not some burden that is heaped upon you. On the contrary, it is a powerful and effective tool for moving your whole world in the direction you choose.

Invest your awareness, attention, effort and commitment in the responsibility that is yours. And enjoy the dividends that come from truly making a difference in the world.

-- Ralph Marston

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This new moment

This new moment has already been filled with possibilities for you. Now you have the challenging and delightful task of filling it with life.

Feel the sweet coolness of the brisk wind in your face as you race forward into new and exciting territory. Watch the world change for the better as a result of your good and purposeful actions.

Look closely and see the extraordinary beauty in the most ordinary of things. Lovingly pay attention to every experience, and treasure the valuable new lessons you learn.

Reach out to others and give them your best. Create joy out of nothing and know that joy is always yours the moment you choose to live it.

Recall just a fraction of your many blessings and realize how truly wealthy you are. Know that from here, you can take positive and purposeful steps in whatever direction you choose.

This new moment is a golden opportunity that now surrounds you. Love it, live it, and make it the magnificent moment it was meant to be.

-- Ralph Marston

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Put discouragement behind you

Just as quickly and easily as you can become discouraged, you can let go of that discouragement. The only power that discouragement has, is the power you give it.

Though the challenges are great, you are greater. For you can act and learn and adapt, and act again with even more effectiveness.

If you feel yourself sinking into the false comfort of discouragement, choose instead to stand up. Boldly take a few steps forward, lovingly recall your deepest purposes and your most treasured dreams, and put that discouragement behind you.

Though there is always injustice in the world, there is always even more opportunity to make a positive difference. Though the challenges keep appearing, in each challenge is the chance to create new positive value.

You can decide how your life will be. And you have the power to make it so.

This is your moment to pick your head up, put a smile on your face, and with a quickness and determination in your step, move forward. Look toward your best possibilities, for you are here now to achieve great things.

-- Ralph Marston

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Positive beginning

Would you spend your hard-earned money buying things you didn't want or need? Of course not.

So why would you spend any of your precious and powerful thoughts on things you don't want? It makes much more sense to focus your thoughts on the positive, desirable things you would like to create and expand upon.

The thoughts with which you choose to fill your mind have a direct influence on the people, things, and events that surround your life. Every moment, with each thought, you have the opportunity to point your life in a specific direction.

The way you think about life plays a major role in the way your life unfolds. Again and again, choose those thoughts that resonate with a life that's rich, joyous and fulfilled.

You think thousands of thoughts each day. Use the opportunity of each thought to push you toward the precise life you wish to create for yourself.

Everything in your world begins with a thought. So use your thoughts to give everything a powerful, positive beginning.

-- Ralph Marston

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Have you noticed?

Have you noticed how beautiful the world is today? Have you seen some of the fresh, new opportunities that are coming to life?

Have you remembered today what a unique and wonderful blessing it is to be alive? Can you feel the richness that lives in this very moment?

Do you understand how truly fortunate you are to be you? Can you see the magnificent possibilities that are close enough to touch?

Do you realize the immense value that your thoughts and actions are able to create? Do you feel the power of your own special purpose?

This is not just any day. It is the day that you now have to work with, and a day in which you can accomplish so very much.

Open yourself to the best possibilities. This day is now yours to fulfill.

-- Ralph Marston

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Make something good

This is a great day, when you choose to make it so. You're experiencing the opportunity of a lifetime, when you decide to see it as such.

Never assume that you're stuck with the way things are. You have the ability to make a difference.

Whatever happens, you can make something good out of it. The possibilities for creating meaningful value are truly endless.

The world in which you live depends on the world you choose to see and the values you choose to express. Today presents you with a wealth of opportunities to be your best in unique and fulfilling ways.

Of course there are challenges. And it is by working through the most difficult of those challenges that you're able to make the most positive progress.

Step boldly forward and delight in the bright, shining possibilities of this day. Make it the best one yet.

-- Ralph Marston

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Anything is possible

It's difficult to even know what many of your limiting beliefs are because they are so well entrenched. Yet day after day, they hold you back and obscure your view of life's best possibilities.

To set yourself free of those limiting beliefs, crowd them out with inspiration. The more inspired you are, the more easily you'll dissolve the beliefs that hold you back.

Focus on a beautiful, wonderful, meaningful possibility. Feel how you must let go of your limiting beliefs in order to fully imagine and comprehend that possibility.

See that ultimately, the only thing that really holds you back is your belief that you cannot move forward. Once you've let that go, you free yourself to soar.

Anything is possible. And underneath all those illusions of limitation, you know it without a doubt.

Trade your limitations for inspirations. And fulfill the best that is within you.

-- Ralph Marston

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Discover your way forward

Whatever it is you choose to do, or to be, or to create, go ahead and begin. Take some initial action, and that action will quickly feed other actions.

Though you may not yet know everything that must be done, you do know of something you can do right now. So do it, and get yourself started.

The first step will enable you to see what the second step is to be. The second step will begin to establish powerful momentum.

Discover your way forward, and uncover joys that you would have never guessed were there. Learn and grow and build and create your way to whatever destination you have chosen.

No situation is ever hopeless. Because whatever the situation may be, the moment you start to take action, you change it.

Begin to act, and your world begins to change. Keep going, and your life takes on more and more of the flavor of your dreams.

-- Ralph Marston

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Abundance has no limit

As grand as any achievement may be, it is not the ultimate. Because it opens up new possibilities for even greater achievement.

That's why it makes no sense to be envious or resentful of the accomplishments of others. Those accomplishments each increase the number of opportunities available to you.

Rejoice at the success of others and you instill the power of that success within yourself. Be thankful for positive progress and you will become part of that progress.

The most successful people are those who encourage and enable others to succeed. Truly appreciate real value and you'll find new ways to create more value.

Abundance has no limit. A life that is richly lived creates much richness in the lives of those all around.

Every achievement you see, see as a beginning. Appreciate the richness that is, and you'll be creating even more.

-- Ralph Marston

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To be

Remember the things you knew before you ever knew anything. In those things you will discover who you truly are.

Pay attention to what you know without a doubt but cannot explain. Be reasonable while knowing that there is also much value beyond reason.

Find treasures in the rich world of material and sensation, and delight in them. Yet keep in mind that those treasures are mere tokens of the real treasure that is your very existence.

Be joyful for everything and for no reason at all. The joy that endures is the joy that flows freely from your desire to experience it.

Realize that you are even more beautiful than the most beautiful thing you can comprehend. Because you are able to bring all that beauty to life.

What an amazing thing it is to be. Live today in your own unique and miraculous way.

-- Ralph Marston

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Above and beyond

A little extra effort can bring your life to a much higher level. Once you've done what must be done, do a little more.

The distance you must travel to get from ordinary to outstanding is not really that far. Yet the benefits of going that extra distance are enormous.

You have something very special and original to give to life. Let the best that you are flow out from you with every effort, in every situation.

There is an abundance to which you're already connected. Do the work and put forth the commitment to fully express that abundance through the outcomes you achieve.

The opportunity to make a difference is one of life's greatest blessings. Seize that opportunity and live it with every breath you take.

Know the magnificent joy that effort can bring, and you'll always be eager for more. Go above and beyond, and you'll find it to be a truly wonderful place.

-- Ralph Marston

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Think a new thought

Think a new thought, and the whole world changes in front of your eyes. Adopt a new perspective, and you enter a new reality.

What seems to be out there is precisely your perception and interpretation of what's out there. And as such, you can truly make it whatever you choose.

At your core is a purpose that provides an endless source of energy. It is new and bright and sparkling in every moment.

Seek to know the truth of that purpose, and notice how it feels so very right. Let it be the lens through which you see all else.

Know where you are coming from, and you will know where to go. Know where to go, and you will be there.

-- Ralph Marston

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Yes, you are ready

There is no limit to the number of ways in which you can create real value. Breathe deeply, smile lovingly, and just do it.

The moment you're in is plenty. The place where you are is an ideal place from which to move forward.

Instead of punishing yourself with regret, delight yourself with the possibilities. Get busy creating and living a beautiful now.

Yes, you are ready to be your best. Let go of the doubts and let it happen.

You can create your very own future, and you are doing so even now. Take this opportunity to fill it with what you know to be good and valuable and meaningful.

There is immense beauty in you that you have not yet seen. Share it with the world and live the joy of discovery as that beauty continues to unfold.

-- Ralph Marston

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Live the miracle

Life is what you make it. Make it beautiful.

Your very best days are the days when you live with true purpose and joy. Make today one of those days.

Fill this moment with meaning. Fill this life with the pure and limitless love that flows from deep within you.

There are unique opportunities in every situation. Focus on bringing to life those possibilities that create the most value.

Allow the best that is within you to freely flow far, far beyond you. Fall in love with life all over again and again.

Feel the awesome power of purpose. And truly live the miracle that is you.

-- Ralph Marston

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Head held high

There's no reason to be dismayed by what others say or do. If they want to behave negatively, that's their problem, and not yours.

No person knows what's best for you more than you do. No person knows what you're capable of accomplishing more than you do.

Certainly other people can support and encourage you, and can be of great help to you, and you to them. See the good and the positive in those around you and connect with it.

Pay no mind to those who would drag you down with their criticism. There's no need to let someone's opinion stop you, for it's just an opinion.

You are who you are, regardless of what others think, say or do. You are unique and worthy and filled with great possibilities.

Focus your energy, your awareness and your efforts on those positive possibilities. You are here, you are capable, and with your head held high you know that the best is yet to come.

-- Ralph Marston

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Confident expectation

In ways you can clearly see and in ways you'll never understand, your expectations become your reality. What you expect most sincerely and persistently, you experience.

All that is within you constantly works to meet the expectations you set for yourself and for your world. You will see, and hear, and touch, and taste, and learn, and achieve whatever you expect.

When those around you are filled with dismay, it is easy to expect the worst. Yet surprisingly, it is just as easy to expect the best when you simply choose to do so, and a whole lot more beneficial.

Begin each day with the confident expectation of specific achievements. At the end of the day, most of those expectations will have been met.

Expectation compels you to find a way. Expectation taps into the large and rich store of resources in your life.

Expect the best of yourself and of those around you. For you truly have the power to make those expectations real.

-- Ralph Marston

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Treasure that is already yours

Before you seek more, ask yourself this. Are you doing all you can with what you already have?

Gratitude is a powerful and undeniable way to bring more abundance into your life. By making full use of what you have, you're expressing gratitude in a sincere and effective way.

Your life already has richness that you have not yet discovered. But if you're constantly wanting more, you'll never even realize that richness is there.

This very moment is filled with joys that are waiting to be experienced. This very day is full of beauty that is waiting to be seen and appreciated.

Decide today to discover some new treasure that is already yours. Instead of striving for more, fully accept and celebrate what already is.

Abundance is all around you. See it and it is yours.

-- Ralph Marston

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Relax

One great way to maintain your focus is to let go of it for a while. To make your efforts more effective, get away from them for a little bit.

Intense focus requires energy and enthusiasm. To replenish that energy and enthusiasm, make it a habit to take a real break.

Up to a certain point, the more you work the more you'll accomplish. Eventually though, you'll reach a point of diminishing returns.

Enjoy the challenge of working with intensity. Then spend some time relaxing, away from all that work.

Be productive, be effective, be focused and committed. And then regularly sit back and truly enjoy the fruits of your efforts.

For optimum performance, keep yourself balanced. Allow your efforts and your relaxation to positively contribute to each other.

-- Ralph Marston

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The opportunity to respond

You have the opportunity to respond to whatever happens in your world. And the way you respond determines the quality of your life.

What matters most is not what happens to you. What matters most is the way you respond.

You can respond any way you choose. So choose those positive, empowering responses that will move your life forward.

It may seem in certain situations that a negative response is the only possible response, and yet that is never the case. Always, a positive response is just as possible, just as realistic, and a whole lot more beneficial.

Get clear on your purpose and know your intentions. Respond to whatever happens in a way that moves your life in the direction you have chosen to go.

For the opportunity to craft your own response to each event in life is indeed the opportunity to set the direction of your life. Remember always that you have a choice, and use that choice to add great value to your world.

-- Ralph Marston

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Release your doubts

Can you let go of your doubts? Of course you can.

How do you release those doubts? You simply stop holding on to them.

If you wish to drop an object that you are holding in your hands, you just let it go and it falls away. Visualize doing the exact same thing with each doubt, and allow them all to fall away from you under their own weight.

Every doubt you maintain requires your active participation and energy. Choose to no longer participate in keeping those doubts alive.

Instead, use the energy to grow and build and love and live and accomplish great things. Release your doubts, and stop standing in the way of your own progress.

Move positively forward without the encumbrance of doubt. And discover how amazingly effective you can naturally be.

-- Ralph Marston

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Create value

You don't need anyone else's permission or assistance to create value. All it takes is the desire to make a difference.

When you encounter a challenge, find a way through it. If your first effort doesn't do the trick, make another effort, and another, until success is yours.

You have a whole universe from which to draw energy and resources. You have a deep and compelling purpose in which you can find endless motivation.

Visualize your ideal destination and align your life in the direction of success. Define precisely what success means to you, and then state your specific intention to achieve that very success.

Many have done it many times before, and so have you. Choose again and again to achieve, and bring your special value to the world.

This is a day when opportunities abound and possibilities beckon. Joyfully and lovingly bring the best of them to life.

-- Ralph Marston

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Set yourself free

There is no outside force holding you back. You are holding you back and you are blaming it on someone or something else.

The way you are able to continue holding yourself back is by maintaining the illusion that you're a victim. Once you release that illusion, you will naturally and easily move forward.

In fact, it is easier to fulfill your best possibilities than it is to avoid them. So let go of the blame and watch the limitations drop away.

Certainly there will always be challenges, and yet it is not the challenges that hold you back. For each challenge provides you with a pathway through which you can move toward fulfillment.

It is your very nature to accomplish. Lovingly accept your destiny, and allow that accomplishment to be manifest through you.

Set yourself free to follow your purpose. Set yourself free to truly live.

-- Ralph Marston

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