The Daily Motivator: August 2009

Monday, August 31, 2009

The reason why

You know what you must do. And yet how do you get yourself to do it?

Again and again, remind yourself why. With a strong enough reason why, you will be able to do anything at any time in any circumstance.

If you're tempted to put off a task until later, remind yourself why you truly want to get it done. Put a powerful why behind it, and you'll find a way to do it now.

Real achievement demands many consistent, focused efforts spread over long periods of time. The way to keep it up is to keep it meaningful.

Give your long-term intentions the opportunity to dispel the short-term, momentary urges. With a clear, solid purpose firmly in mind, you'll stay reliably on track.

Whatever you choose to imagine can happen for you. Constantly give your goals a sincere reason why, and you'll bring them steadily to life.

-- Ralph Marston

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Sunday, August 30, 2009

Living with richness

Feel how good it is to live this day. Feel the possibilities that have now been born.

Realize the power you have to make a difference. Think of the value that you can now create.

There is no end to the love you can give. There is no limit to the joy you can share.

Your vision, your imagination and your intentions point the way forward. Your thoughts and actions can bring the fulfillment you seek.

Open yourself to the goodness and to the opportunities that are yours right now. There is much for which to be thankful, and there are countless ways to express and fulfill your purpose.

Get busy living this day with richness and your own special meaning. Feel the unique joy of this moment, and carry it ever forward.

-- Ralph Marston

Friday, August 28, 2009

Let fear go

Fear is powerful, and yet it is fragile. Though it can stop you cold, fear can be gone in an instant when you decide you've had enough of it.

Fear is a very effective way for you to get your own attention. Then as soon as you're fully aware of a fear and what it has to say, you have no more use for it.

Let the fear advise you and prepare you, and then just let it go. It is nothing more than a thought over which you have full control.

When fear is what holds you back, there's a quick way forward. Accept the fear, feel it, learn from it, and then drop it completely from your mind.

By letting go of fear, you transform it into courage. In this way, you put the power of that fear to positive use.

Boldly step through each fear, then move on past it. And feel the strength that you've just gained.

-- Ralph Marston

Thursday, August 27, 2009

In your favor

When the doubts come, see them, feel them, laugh at them and let them go. You can do it and you know it.

Just a little positive action will get your confidence starting to roll. Go ahead and take that first small step.

A successful attitude is as close as your next thought. Imagine in detail what success means to you right now, and just as suddenly, you are on your way.

Smile at each challenge, because you see its value. Know that every setback makes the achievement more solidly yours.

Circumstances work in your favor when you think and work in your favor. Events unfold to support and fulfill your most sincere and intense expectations.

Whatever happens is another step in the right direction. For you will find a way to make it so.

-- Ralph Marston

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Positive advantage

Put your energy where it will do the most good. Put your energy into those things you can do right now to make a difference.

Worry will get you nowhere and will drain the value out of your moments. Achieving the status of victim is not an achievement worth having.

Instead, take the challenges and use them to positive advantage. With the very real power of your thoughts, bend your life's energy so that it flows ever forward.

There is enough time and there are plenty of resources for creating true greatness on your own terms. Fully feel the possibilities and bring them steadily to life.

Make thankful use of what you have when you have it. Focus what is, through your imagination, into the best of what you know can be.

See the immense value of who you are and what you have right now. Transform that value into a living expression now, and it will always be with you.

-- Ralph Marston

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Drawn closer

Even in the midst of turmoil and confusion, total, all-encompassing peace can be yours. When it seems that the world is spinning out of control, steady confidence radiates from your inner values.

When you don't know what to do, something within you does know exactly what to do. When all hope is lost, hope grows ever stronger.

There is no magic bullet that will solve all your problems. Yet by accepting and even embracing those many problems, you gain sweet control over your world.

You have been through much and you will go through much more. Each day, every moment brings something that you will eventually understand to be real, unique treasure.

Breathe deeply the empowering air of authentic experience. With the passing hours you gain more substance with which to work.

Your dreams have not been lost. They have just been more fully revealed, and have drawn closer than ever before.

-- Ralph Marston

Monday, August 24, 2009

Difficult and easy

Can you define easy? What makes one task easy and another task difficult?

What one person considers difficult another person finds to be easy. In fact, difficult and easy are largely what you define them to be.

Do you see certain accomplishments as out of reach because you assume that they're too difficult? Perhaps it's worth looking again, knowing that you have the power to decide what is difficult and what is easy.

When you take it easy, then you have the power to make it easy. When you make it easy, then you can get it done.

Though the job may be complicated and challenging and demanding, you can choose to make it easy by the way you think of it. Instead of avoiding what you assume to be difficult, you can dive right in to what you decide is easy.

Choose with your own thoughts to make it easy. And you'll choose to make it happen.

-- Ralph Marston

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Never settle for less

You can create results or you can make excuses. It's much more fun and fulfilling to create the results you have chosen to create.

The opportunities are always there. Your job is to seize them and work them into real, meaningful achievements.

Always, there are challenges. And always, there are ways to successfully move through those challenges.

Whatever you can envision, you can achieve. Sure, there are plenty of excuses for not doing so, and yet there are also plenty of ways to make it happen.

The purpose of your magnificent life is not to merely endure. There are wonderful, unique treasures that only you can create.

Fulfillment of your authentic purpose is worth every effort. Never settle for less from yourself than the absolute best you can be.

-- Ralph Marston

Friday, August 21, 2009

This new moment

The world is new in this new moment. Opportunity is fresh, and possibilities are yours to be fulfilled.

Regardless of what has already happened, today will be what you decide to make of it. Decide to fill it with meaningful treasures of your own unique design.

Don't be hindered by the disappointments of the past. In this new moment, you can choose a new, positive, purposeful direction.

Consider where you have been, what you have experienced, and all you have done. In this new moment, take the very best of who you have become and create some new, wonderful value.

You can learn, you can act, you can understand, you can love, you can appreciate, you can wonder, and you can fully live. Now is when the beauty of who you are can be expressed in a new and unique way.

This new moment is bursting with possibilities. And there is much new joy for you to know.

-- Ralph Marston

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Big dreams

Dare to dream big dreams. For those are the dreams that have the power to push your whole world forward.

Expect great and wonderful and magnificent things in your life. For what you expect, you experience.

Fulfillment is always yours to create in your own unique way. Joy is always yours to live and to give.

The only limitation on life's richness is what you choose to imagine. So imagine a life that is filled with meaning in every moment, and then allow yourself to experience it all.

Within you is a spirit that can easily overwhelm any external factor. Touch the depth of that spirit and set it free to positively transform your world right now.

Envision that you feel the best you can possibly feel in this moment, and give that vision life right now. Fully enjoy and fulfill the beautiful, unique person you are.

-- Ralph Marston

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Energy boost

If you wanted to raise your level of energy, what would you think about? What would you say, how would you act, how would you carry yourself, and what things would you focus upon?

Imagine being filled with so much positive energy that it overflows into the world around you. Think about exactly how that would make you feel.

Would you like to boost your energy level right now? You have everything necessary to do exactly that.

For in any and every moment, your energy level depends on the choices you make. The way you think and act and speak and feel all contribute to the amount of energy you have to work with.

A beautiful, genuine smile, for example, puts you at a much higher energy level than an angry scowl. Focusing on your highest vision gives you greater energy than filling your mind with worry, judgment and envy.

Your energy level is up to you, and you can always utilize that energy to do great things. Give yourself a positive energy boost now, and again and again, and delight in the rewards of a life well lived.

-- Ralph Marston

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Persist

The only way to fail is to give up. Whatever comes, whatever happens, keep going.

Fix your eyes on the goal, and persist. Your vision, your commitment, and your actions will take you there.

When you can make great big strides, make them. When you can take only small steps, take them.

See every moment as the opportunity that it is. When the wind is at your back, keep going, and when the wind is blowing against you, keep going.

Make good and effective use of whatever you encounter. Tap into the positive value that is always there.

Know precisely where you wish to go and why. Keep going, and you are there.

-- Ralph Marston

Monday, August 17, 2009

Transform

Step back from the pain and transform it into compassion. Step back from the stress and strengthen your purpose.

Take the anger and turn it into healing. Drop the resentment and allow the remaining energy to blossom into enthusiasm.

Rise above anxiety, so that you come to experience peace. From the negative frustrations, draw positive inspiration.

Where there is sadness, offer genuine and unconditional love. In times of despair, find tiny morsels of joy and hope, and let them grow to magnificent proportions as they flow out from you.

When you are weary, be truly thankful for how far you have already come. Let your gratitude transform what is, into the very best of what you know can be.

Life's energy is what you make it. Make it purposeful, positive, fulfilling, and great.

-- Ralph Marston

Sunday, August 16, 2009

In good time

Give yourself the time necessary to succeed. Patience and persistent effort will make any possibility come to life.

Value is created over time. With focused action, the goals you seek will surely come in good time.

Your efforts will not fail to bring results. And the most powerful results are the ones that come over time.

Plant the seeds of success. And even before those first seeds begin to sprout, keep planting even more seeds.

In good time, those tiny seeds, diligently and persistently planted, will yield a bountiful harvest of achievement. In good time, every effort will be rewarded.

Find joy in every moment of the journey, knowing that you are indeed making a difference. In good time, you'll savor the sweet fruits of all those efforts.

-- Ralph Marston

Friday, August 14, 2009

Beyond what is comfortable

Progress is made by doing what you have not done before. To truly grow stronger, you must step beyond what is comfortable and familiar.

Just outside your door is a whole wonderful world of new possibilities. And with those new possibilities come new and difficult challenges.

Go ahead, and have the courage to open that door and to step outside your comfort zone. For though the challenges are many, the rewards are more valuable than you can imagine.

You are designed and equipped and intended for great things. You are flexible and adaptable and creative and intelligent enough to successfully handle whatever you encounter.

Beyond the comfort of what you already know, you'll find the wonder and magnificence of all you can become. Go explore and fulfill the very best possibilities.

-- Ralph Marston

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Set to begin

Where you are, is a great place to start. In fact, where you are is the only place from which you can ever start.

The path that leads to your most treasured dreams, also leads to where you are right now. Experience how good it feels to take the first step forward on that path.

This is the right moment. All you need to get started is what you already have.

The special joy of accomplishment begins the moment you begin. That joy is as close as your next breath.

Starting with whatever you have, you can reach whatever you dare to imagine. From this very place, your journey is set to begin.

Open your eyes to the possibilities. Taste the sweet fulfillment that is yours now to create.

-- Ralph Marston

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Future consequences

One action, taken now, can have powerful consequences far into the future. That fact can be a blessing or a curse, depending of course on what the action is.

Time will magnify whatever you do. So even in the smallest matters, do what is right.

The direction and purpose of each effort are much more important than the size of the effort. For over time, all your efforts will add together to exert great influence on your life and your world.

Your future consequences are being born right now. This is a moment of great opportunity.

Point all your actions, large and small, important and seemingly insignificant, in the direction you wish to see your life move. Time will combine all those actions into an increasingly powerful set of results, and now is when you can choose those results.

With your efforts, choose to put time on your side. Make the future your friend by making the most of right now.

-- Ralph Marston

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Find your enthusiasm

What is it that excites you, and gets you fired up in a positive way, and makes it impossible for you to sit still? Whatever it is, fill your awareness with it.

Bright, sparkling, delicious enthusiasm will get you going in a powerful, purposeful direction. Enthusiasm will keep you going strong even when nothing seems to be going your way.

There's something, some goal, some dream, some intrinsic purpose that will put you in a state of irrepressible enthusiasm. Get busy, find it and connect with it because when you do your effectiveness will skyrocket.

Let yourself dream your biggest, most wonderful and fulfilling dreams. Then reach in, grab the very essence of those dreams and you'll have a handful of priceless enthusiasm.

The best that you can imagine is already within you. So bring it to the surface and let it positively infect your whole world.

Find your own unique, joyful and powerful enthusiasm. And let it carry you to magnificent places.

-- Ralph Marston

Monday, August 10, 2009

The time is right

The time is right, right now. Stop waiting and start doing.

When you have the thought to make a difference, act on it. Live out your dreams by putting your ideas quickly into action.

When you are truly and fully committed to a specific outcome, it will happen. Taking action is what authenticates and locks in your commitment.

Once you begin to take action, you've made an investment. The more of your time and energy and focus you invest, the more you'll be motivated to see it through no matter what.

Momentum is essential to any achievement. Taking action is your way to create that momentum.

As soon as you decide to do it, begin to do it. Take the first step now, and you're well on your way to whatever destination you choose.

-- Ralph Marston

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Beyond distraction

Distractions only have the power that you give them. To avoid being overpowered by distractions, see them for what they are.

What is it that resonates with your passion and fires up your positive enthusiasm? Whatever it is, that's the thing to focus upon.

When something interrupts your focus, don't fight it. Simply notice it, quickly decide whether it is worth any more of your precious attention, and if not, peacefully let it go.

Don't get angry or resentful that the distraction happened, and don't become obsessed with something that really doesn't matter. Just take a deep breath, smile as you remember your purpose, and move on.

You don't have to be dragged this way and that by random events and circumstances. You can easily stay clearly focused on your dreams, your goals and your intentions.

Your thoughts are yours to choose, and your attention is yours to allocate. Decide to give your attention to those things that matter most, and move purposefully ahead no matter what.

-- Ralph Marston

Friday, August 7, 2009

Options

Sometimes, the best approach is the willingness to make another approach. Give yourself some options.

Don't become so focused on the process that you fail to reach the goal. If what you're doing is not working, have the honesty and confidence to re-evaluate and adjust your approach.

A ship sailing across the sea is constantly getting pushed off course by the winds and the currents. To successfully reach the desired destination, the captain must continually adjust the ship's direction.

You cannot know in advance all the circumstances you'll encounter. Plan carefully, and then be ready to adjust your tactics as you move forward.

Remind yourself often exactly where you've decided to go. Commit to doing whatever it takes, and to adjust your efforts so they continue to align with your goal.

Be effectively persistent by being flexible and always mindful of what you've chosen to achieve. Though the path is not straight, you'll surely find a way to get there.

-- Ralph Marston

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Get ahead

Do you want to get ahead? Then think ahead, plan ahead, prepare ahead and work ahead.

If you always wait until the last minute to get things done, it will soon catch up with you. Something unexpected will come along, and that last minute you were counting on will be unavailable.

Instead, when you get a few extra minutes, invest them in getting ahead. Work to do what must be done, well before it must be finished.

Then, when new opportunities appear you'll have the time to make the most of them. Instead of being burdened by playing catch up, you'll be free to move ahead.

Don't be a slave to your own procrastination. Be the master of your own time and success and achievement.

The earlier you take action, the more effective your actions will be. Look ahead, act ahead, and enjoy the powerful benefits of truly getting ahead.

-- Ralph Marston

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Respect and kindness

Being rude doesn't feel very good even while you're doing it. Being genuinely considerate, on the other hand, can leave you feeling more positive and empowered for a long time afterward.

Rudeness and arrogance are unmistakable signs of weakness and insecurity. Kindness and polite consideration are reliable indicators of rock-solid confidence and strength.

How do you treat those whom you have no reason to impress, from whom you have nothing to gain? It says a lot about you, and people do indeed notice.

Those who are truly in a position of responsibility have no need for arrogance. Any positive impression you seek to make through arrogance or rudeness is immediately contradicted by the arrogance itself.

Don't let your own arrogance waste your energy and set you back. Use each encounter as an opportunity to offer genuine respect and kindness.

Lift up the lives of those around you. And you lift up your whole world.

-- Ralph Marston

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

All the goodness

All the goodness you've ever known is still with you. Feel it and carry it forward.

This is the best day yet. For now you are here and able to add more joy to what you've already experienced.

Allow the beauty and value of this moment to flow fully into your awareness. There are so many good and wonderful things you can do right now.

Give your love and you create more. Offer genuine kindness and make a positive difference that goes far beyond you.

Give power and endurance to the goodness you encounter by experiencing and truly appreciating it all. Let the best of life continue to flow by letting it flow through you.

This is a beautiful day and you are in a beautiful place. Feel the goodness and pass it on.

-- Ralph Marston

Create opportunity

Opportunity is greatest when it seems to be gone. In times of difficulty, there is much room for achievement.

This is a time to create great value. This is a moment ripe with new opportunities for moving ahead.

Just when you feel you have no more to give, that's when you can rise to a whole new level of effectiveness. When previously reliable actions bring disappointing results, outstanding new possibilities are already taking shape.

When all hope is gone, new hope asserts itself more strongly than ever. Along with every obstacle comes the energy to transcend that obstacle.

Your very nature is to create new value. Out of difficulty and challenge, you can create achievement and prosperity.

When there appears to be no opportunity, that in itself is a great opportunity. It's a great opportunity for you to create an opportunity of your own.

-- Ralph Marston

Monday, August 3, 2009

Make your own way

Others can point the way, but you must make the journey. Others can give you their assistance and advice, but you must choose the direction of your life.

If you set out to live someone else's dream, you'll end up frustrated and disappointed. For you have your own special purpose, a purpose that would be deeply painful to deny.

That purpose is eager to face the greatest challenges and to grow intensely more meaningful in the process. Your purpose has a whole wonderful set of achievements that will bring great fulfillment to your life.

No one, no matter how generous or well-intentioned, can give you everything you seek. For much of what you seek is to make your own way in life.

No pleasure can compare to the pleasures you earn through your own efforts. No reward can equal the reward of creating your own achievements.

Make the commitment, make the effort, and make your own beautiful way in life.

-- Ralph Marston

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Give yourself a goal

Do yourself a favor and give yourself a goal. Make it meaningful, make it exciting, make it challenging and then make it happen.

Set your goal a little bit beyond what you already know you can do. Then when you reach it you'll not only have the achievement, you'll also have an increased level of confidence.

As long as you're making the effort to live this day, give it a purpose. Give yourself a goal, and transform fleeting time into lasting accomplishment.

From where you are, you can go anywhere. One by one, the goals you set will get you there.

Working steadily and persistently toward a goal will energize all aspects of your life and bring the awesome power of focus to your efforts. There's truly no feeling quite like it.

Challenge yourself forward with a great and meaningful goal. Give yourself a goal, and make yourself some real treasure.

-- Ralph Marston

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