Continue to imagine

Imagine once, and you have a glimpse. Imagine continuously, again and again with the power of your passion, and what you imagine becomes real.

Reality is imagination that has persisted through every doubt. Imagination focuses energy and substance into the expression of its specific vision.

What can you imagine? What will you continue to imagine until it becomes a part of your world?

Imagination has no limits. The future is as bright as you sincerely imagine it to be.

It takes courage and integrity to hold on to what you imagine. For imagination takes you places you've never been.

Choose to go to places truly meaningful and magnificent in your imagination. And you'll surely make the world a more beautiful place.

-- Ralph Marston

Copyright (c) 2009 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 3,000 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.

Success is happening

Success is not the absence of failure. Success is what happens when you choose to move on beyond failure.

Learning what not to do is an important part of knowing what is most effective to do. Every mistake can spotlight a way to improve.

Frustration and disappointment are painful for a very positive reason. The pain pushes you in the direction of achievement.

What does not work gives you a realistic understanding of what will work. Whatever stops you can no longer stop you when you see it clearly enough to work your way around it.

Make your first instinct to celebrate rather than to judge. Celebrate and quickly find a useful outlet for whatever you've just been given.

Every up, every down, every moment makes you more able and creative and effective. See all the ways that success is happening, and allow achievement to flow freely into your world.

-- Ralph Marston

Copyright (c) 2009 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 3,000 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.

From overwhelmed to empowered

Do you feel overwhelmed? The way out is to focus on now.

Whatever you failed to do in the past does not matter now. Let go of any thoughts that could draw you into anxiety about the future.

Give your attention to the progress you can make in this moment. Focus your energy on the valuable contributions you can make from where you are, with what you have.

Instead of feeling overwhelmed, you can easily and realistically choose to feel empowered. After all, this moment with all its rich possibilities is open and available to you.

What you can do right now is enough. Confidently take action and see for yourself.

Take a clear, positive, decisive step forward. Choose now to be fully engaged in making progress, and nothing will have the power to overwhelm you.

-- Ralph Marston

Copyright (c) 2009 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 3,000 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.

In this moment

Do not wait to be beautiful. Be your beautiful, authentic self right now.

If the world offers up negativity and despair, surprise the world by giving back love and kindness. Send out the energy that you wish to experience, and you are certain to experience it.

Happiness and fulfillment are alive in this moment. Allow them to flow freely and creatively through your life.

Fall in love all over again with the miracle of being. Your imagination is great and magnificent, yet it cannot hold even a fraction of the possibilities.

You'll do, say and act your best when you feel your best. Feel the limitless wonder of this very moment.

Be beautiful, alive, aware and filled with the energy of the possible. In this moment, is every dream made and fulfilled.

-- Ralph Marston

Copyright (c) 2009 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 3,000 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.

Opportunity in anything

Sometimes you can exercise a great deal of control over where life is going, and other times you get caught up in forces beyond your control. However, you can always control the way you think and feel and respond.

Learn to appreciate the enormous power that comes from being able to frame anything that happens in an empowering light. Experience how it frees you from the grip of fear and anxiety.

It's great when you can cause events to go your way. And yet even when things don't go as you wish, that can be just as great.

Because you have the profound and powerful ability to uncover opportunity in anything that happens. Every day, every situation, every twist and turn of life's road gives you something valuable with which to work.

Imagine what would happen if instead of being upset by the disappointments, you could choose to be encouraged by them. The absolutely wonderful fact is, you can.

This is a day, this is a moment in which you can move forward no matter what. It's a very powerful place to be.

-- Ralph Marston

Copyright (c) 2009 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 3,000 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.

Leave limitations behind

Whatever you think is holding you back is not what is truly holding you back. What's holding you back is your thought that something is holding you back.

Your limitations have precisely the power that you choose to give them. Ignore them and they become irrelevant.

The obstacles do not limit you. Rather, they compel you to be creative and resourceful.

The challenges you face do not limit you. They provide you with an arena in which to create meaningful value.

Is there something you desire that seems impossible? Then you still have work to do in framing and clarifying and connecting with the truth of that desire.

Nothing separates you from your authentic purpose other than your refusal to see it. See it, be it, and leave the limitations behind.

-- Ralph Marston

Copyright (c) 2009 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 3,000 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.

Effort is a blessing

Difficult is nothing more than an arbitrary judgment. Effort is effort, and you can do it if you choose.

A great achievement requires much effort. Yet that effort is difficult only when you see it as such.

Instead of obsessing over how difficult or easy it is, just do it. Focus on the result and, what's even more important, your reason for making it happen.

Every effort is a blessing. For effort enables you to live the life you choose to live.

You have the priceless opportunity of being able to do what it takes. Put joy in the effort, whatever it may be, and reap the rewards of making a difference.

Welcome the effort and all the value it gives you the opportunity to create.

-- Ralph Marston

Copyright (c) 2009 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. From The Daily Motivator at http://greatday.com where you will find an archive of more than 3,000 positive messages plus books, CDs, motivational videos and more. Permission is given to post online only if this entire notice is included.