Daily Motivator - July

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July 1

Choose the next step

Just because you’ve been disappointed once, or twice, or a hundred times, is no reason to give up. On the contrary, it is a reason to give more to the effort.

Just because you’ve been criticized is no reason to think that the whole world is against you. Actually, it is a valuable opportunity to improve.

Life can throw a lot of discouraging things your way. What’s really beautiful, though, is that you don’t have to be discouraged.

You have a choice, no matter what has happened, no matter where you’ve been or where you are. You can choose the next step, and you can choose to make it a positive one.

You can choose to make the next step the most effective, loving, meaningful thing you’ve ever done. Nothing outside you has the power to stop you from making this your best moment yet.

Throw off the disappointment, breeze cheerfully past the naysayers, and exercise your power to choose. The next step is yours to choose, and you can choose to make it great.

— Ralph Marston

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July 2

Give it a chance

How do you transform something you don’t feel like doing into something you are happily doing? Get started, and give it a chance.

Once you’re immersed in making the effort, it doesn’t seem that bad. In fact, with just a little additional nudge to your attitude, you can actually be enjoying it.

Remind yourself, when there’s something you’ve been putting off, that once you get started it won’t be bad at all. Remind yourself, and then get started.

Don’t view focus as something you have to strive to attain. Just get started, and give your focus a chance to take hold.

It’s really more enjoyable to make progress than it is to avoid effort. And it’s a whole lot more fulfilling.

So next time you find yourself procrastinating, stop and realize what a great opportunity you have. Go ahead, get started, give the effort a chance, and you’ll soon be thanking yourself for doing so.

— Ralph Marston

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July 3

Move on

You’re going along great, making progress, enjoying the effort, and then an unexpected interruption crashes your efforts to the ground. So, deal with the interruption, then let it go, and move on.

You’ve worked long and hard to achieve the results you desire, but the results you end up getting are not what you wanted. Accept the disappointment, learn all you can from it, and move on.

Out of the blue, something new and wonderful suddenly comes into your life. So enjoy the moment fully, and then move on.

Whether it’s pleasant or unpleasant, expected or unexpected, fulfilling or disappointing, life brings new substance every day. Live it fully, making the most of what comes, and then get moving along.

Don’t keep fighting against the bad stuff that’s already occurred, or continue clinging to the good stuff that’s already over. Let what has happened be what has happened, and move on.

Whether it’s been wonderful or disappointing or a mixture of both, be thankful for whatever you’ve just experienced. Feel your renewed inspiration, activate your new strength, and move positively on.

— Ralph Marston

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July 4

Celebrate your freedom

Celebrate your freedom to choose by choosing wisely. Celebrate your freedom to act by acting on your highest values and best intentions.

Celebrate your freedom to speak your mind by speaking the truth, with compassion, understanding and genuine love. Celebrate the freedom to follow your dreams by following those dreams that are worthy of the unique, valuable person you are.

Celebrate and live your freedom, and realize that with freedom comes a serious obligation. Because you are free to choose the direction of your life, you are also responsible for all that happens as a result.

Freedom is a powerful and wonderful thing, and makes the best possibilities possible. Freedom’s power comes from the willingness to accept responsibility, and without that responsibility there is no freedom.

Celebrate your freedom, and give to life all the great things that come from living in freedom. Celebrate your freedom by appreciating how precious it is and by perpetuating it with your responsible choices.

In freedom there are endless promises. Celebrate your freedom by making it your business to fulfill its greatest promises in your own special way.

— Ralph Marston

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July 5

Let the thoughts flow

When you try too hard to be creative, all you get is trying and not much creating. Let go of the trying, let go of the striving, and let the creative thoughts flow.

You are filled with spectacular thoughts and ideas for making life more beautiful and fulfilling. The problem is, most of those ideas never reach the surface because you’re trying so hard to think of other things.

So just ease off the trying and enjoy watching and listening as your thoughts naturally come into your awareness. Instead of getting all uptight with the goal of a particular thought in mind, just pay attention to what your authentic self is telling you.

Before long, if you simply let your thoughts flow, something very useful and appropriate will come along. It will have the added benefit of being elegant and original.

There is so much value in your authentic thoughts that you don’t ever have to settle for contrived thoughts. Be grateful and joyful about who you are, and you will easily come to understand what you seek to know.

You have an immensely deep and largely untapped reservoir of brilliant creativity within you. Let your thoughts freely flow, and let that creativity come forth.

— Ralph Marston

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July 6

Beyond satisfaction

It’s great to be satisfied with what you’ve done. Be careful that your satisfaction doesn’t turn into complacency.

Satisfaction with what you’ve done builds confidence in what you can do. Yet that confidence will do you no good unless it is put to use.

See your satisfaction as a challenge and an opportunity rather than as a refuge. When you’re satisfied with what you’ve done, let it inspire you to do even more.

When you’ve created a valuable result, you’ve also established some powerful momentum. What a shame it would be to waste that momentum.

Seize the opportunity to exceed yourself, to build on what you’ve already accomplished. Extend the great feeling of satisfaction by going above and beyond the effort that originally brought that satisfaction.

Enjoy your satisfaction after a job well done. Then quickly challenge yourself to create a whole lot more.

— Ralph Marston

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July 7

Need keeps you stuck

As long as you need something, you will not have it. The energy of your need pushes away the reality of whatever you seek.

Instead of focusing on what you need, focus on what you have. Because somewhere in whatever you have is the pathway to whatever you desire.

That’s why gratitude is so empowering. Gratitude shines a bright light on your resources and possibilities, and enables you to make good use of them.

Focus on what you have, and on what you can do. No matter what you seek, no matter how far away it may seem, there is something you can do right now to move yourself closer.

Need keeps you stuck. Gratitude, and the willingness to do whatever you can, gets you moving on the path to fulfillment.

Let go of need, and feel the possibilities that are already with you. Step forward, move decisively away from need, and toward the reality of whatever you choose to create.

— Ralph Marston

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July 8

Do it

Don’t just say it. Do it.

Don’t just think about it or plan for it, wish or hope or imagine. Make the effort, do the work, solve the problems, meet the challenges, and get it done.

Thinking, strategizing and having aspirations are all important and necessary, but not enough. You have to get yourself going, get your hands dirty, sort through the complexity and make it happen.

You might fool yourself into thinking that good intentions are enough, but you won’t fool anyone else. It takes effort to transform those good intentions into real value.

You’re fully capable of that effort, and exercising that capability will bring you great satisfaction. So do it.

Dream great dreams, set high goals, then do yourself and the whole world a favor and take action. The time is now, life is yours, and you can do it.

— Ralph Marston

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July 9

Earning it

Is there something you want in life, and yet you never put forth any effort to make it happen? You probably don’t really want it.

If you borrow someone else’s goal, and fail to reach that goal, you haven’t really failed. You’ve given yourself the opportunity to re-evaluate your choices and your direction.

When you don’t really have the desire to do the work, then you don’t really have the desire to reach the goal. Because the value of the reward is created by you, in the process of earning it.

What things can you get excited about working toward? Those are the things that will bring true fulfillment to your life.

What do you consider to be worth your time, effort, and resources? What would you willingly make sacrifices and endure difficulties to create?

How do you know what’s really, truly important to you? It is whatever you are willing to earn.

— Ralph Marston

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July 10

Good to be honest

It feels good to be honest, even when that honesty is difficult. It feels powerful to be on the side of truth, even when there is pain in the truth.

Admitting who you are, refreshes your spirit. Stop struggling to hide your desires, insecurities, ambitions, fears, likes and dislikes, and feel how good it feels to be genuine.

Let yourself be yourself. You’ll find it is much easier than pretending to be someone or something you are not, and a whole lot more fulfilling.

Admit what you love, and then put your energy into doing something about it. You were born to be you, and your greatest success will come from doing what you were born to do.

There is greatness within you that can only be reached by being honest about who you are. Let go of the pretenses, and let that greatness shine through.

You have a unique and valuable perspective to offer the world. Be honest, without compromise, about what matters to you, and bring your own special treasure to life.

— Ralph Marston

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July 11

Let happiness light the way

Happiness is a choice, not an achievement. Nothing will make you happy until you decide to be happy.

Happiness is not found in a particular set of conditions. Happiness is a powerful and positive way to deal with the conditions, whatever they may be.

How can you be happy when the world seems to be crashing down around you? Even though you may not be happy about what’s going on, you can be happy for the opportunity to make a difference.

If you wait until some specific thing happens before being happy, you’ll have a long, unhappy wait. Choose instead to live your happiness no matter what, and your happiness will light the way to those good things you desire.

Being happy is not naive. When you put no conditions on your happiness, and simply let it flow, it is empowering, and life-changing.

Forget about how easy or hard it might seem, and find it within yourself to be happy. Let your happiness push you forward into a life you can be very happy about.

— Ralph Marston

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July 12

Now is what you have

The best of life is not out of your reach. It is here in this moment.

It is outstanding to dream, to plan, to work toward a meaningful goal and to achieve great and valuable things. But you don’t have to wait for later to get the most out of life.

Everything you need to enjoy the richness of life is here now, today, where you are. With what you have, with what you know, with what you feel and with what’s available to you, you can experience life at its best.

The key for doing so is to live with purpose, with authentic passion, with enthusiasm and genuine gratitude. In whatever situation you may find yourself, with whatever else you may have, you have the privilege of experiencing life from your own unique perspective.

Let go of the illusion that something else, something out there, something apart from you will make you happy. Let happiness and real, true joy flow from whatever you’re doing, wherever you are.

This day is too precious to waste it waiting or hoping for things to be different. Now is what you have, and it has beautiful possibilities, so delight in it fully while it is here.

— Ralph Marston

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July 13

Rise above the pettiness

Your time, energy, awareness and attention are precious and powerful. Spend them on the things that matter.

Don’t let yourself get all riled up about life’s minor inconveniences and interruptions. Quickly let them go and free yourself to focus on what’s really important.

Was someone rude or inconsiderate to you? Let it be that other person’s problem, and forget about it.

Did something not work out the way you wanted? Instead of building it up into a major life tragedy, accept the disappointment and get it quickly behind you.

Spend your time, thoughts and actions where they matter. Spend them on those things in your life that matter.

Step back and observe yourself as you let go of the trivial stuff and become a master of the important things. Enjoy yourself as you rise above the pettiness and bring your own special greatness to life.

— Ralph Marston

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July 14

Succeed in any situation

Ideal conditions for doing your work are, well, ideal. But they are not absolutely necessary.

It’s great to have all the tools and resources close at hand, and to have a supportive environment in which to use them. While such a scenario is quite desirable, it is not always possible.

Just because conditions are less than perfect does not mean you have to be less than your best. Just because conditions are not ideal, is not an excuse to put off your work until another time.

In fact, there can be hidden value in those challenging, less-than-ideal conditions. You might actually find a way to do the job even better than if things had been perfect.

So if you catch yourself making excuses, quickly remind yourself of how capable and adaptable you are. Instead of seeing the situation as a reason to procrastinate, see it as a challenge to grow stronger and more resilient.

Give new power and effectiveness to your work by resolving to do it no matter what. Give yourself the ability to succeed in any situation.

— Ralph Marston

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July 15

Feel the feelings

Do more than just longing for the good feelings you’ve known in the past or the ones you hope to feel in the future. Feel those feelings now, where you are.

Allow yourself to love the life you have and the moment you’re in. Let yourself enjoy the beauty in every detail.

Put away any temptation you have to make judgments, or to worry, or to fear. Feel the joy in your good fortune of living life as it is and being able to make a difference.

Instead of just wishing you could feel a certain way, remind yourself that the feeling you seek is yours to choose right now. Instead of depending on circumstances for your feelings, turn it around and let your circumstances flow from your good feelings.

You have power over the way you see life and feel about it. That power makes amazing things possible, for when you are sufficiently motivated you can make amazing things happen.

Go ahead and feel the best you’ve ever felt. Then feel the power, and use it to create new goodness that expresses those good feelings.

— Ralph Marston

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