Daily Motivator - August

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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Make yourself persist

If you see that you’re making a difference, keep going, and add to your positive influence. If it seems you’re not making a difference, make some adjustments, keep going, and you’re sure to find an effective way forward.

The key is to keep going. Whether you’re encouraged, discouraged, jubilant or disappointed, the next step is to go ahead and decisively take the next step.

To find, you must seek. To achieve, you must act, no matter what.

You know you have it in you to live the best life you can imagine. Express that value and beauty within you by keeping yourself in motion.

When the going is good, it’s easy to keep going, so do. When things are not going well, it’s more important than ever to keep going, so by all means do.

Persistence wins. Make yourself persist and you’ll transform your world in meaningful, positive, wonderful ways.

— Ralph Marston


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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Uncover the richness

Your life is inherently rich on many levels, and yet your own negative thoughts and feelings can cover up that richness. The more negativity you let go of, the more goodness you allow into your experience of life.

Let go of your need to judge, your habit of fear, and your desire to take offense, and uncover the richness. Choose to forgive, to act with courage, and to understand, and feel that richness as it fills your life.

Stop struggling to justify and express your negative impulses. Instead, enjoy floating freely and peacefully in your own sense of goodness.

Delight in your own richness by giving of it to your world. Experience the extent of your good fortune by living it with love and generosity.

Instead of obsessing over the moment’s shortcomings, celebrate life’s richness. Look beyond your minor concerns and see your major positive possibilities.

The immense richness of your life is always within your reach. Let go of the little negative things and experience that richness in big and wonderful ways.

— Ralph Marston


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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Somewhere special

You don’t have to go somewhere special to be somewhere special. Wherever you happen to be has a unique and valuable beauty all its own.

You don’t have to do anything special to experience how truly great and special life is. Even in the ordinary things there is always extraordinary richness to be found.

Just the sensation of the warm sun on your skin is amazing. And that’s something you can feel anywhere on the face of the Earth.

There’s no need to wait until some special moment to experience life in all its glory. The fact is, you can make any moment special just by giving your love and authenticity to it.

Look around you, wherever you are, and you’ll see plenty of opportunities for fulfillment. What makes life special is your choice to live it fully.

Allow yourself to feel the wonder, to drink in the beauty and to experience the special time and place where you are. Life is always special, so live it accordingly.

— Ralph Marston


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Friday, August 23, 2013

Your awareness

Life can wear you down, or life can lift you up. It all depends on how you choose to see it and live it.

The primary component of weariness is not age or infirmity or circumstance. It is attitude.

The main ingredient of enthusiasm is not youth or comfort or good fortune. It is your attitude, based on your awareness.

What do you look for, think about, focus on and expect? That is what you will experience.

Focus the bulk of your awareness not on transient trivialities, but on what truly matters to you, to your dreams, and to your values. Pay much less attention to the fears and frustrations, and much more attention to the positive possibilities and opportunities.

Sincerely see life as beautiful and fulfilling, and you will make life beautiful and fulfilling. Your awareness has awesome power, so use it wisely and lovingly.

— Ralph Marston


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Saturday, August 24, 2013

How good you have it

Remind yourself today how good you have it. Then allow yourself to make it even better.

Step back from the immediate challenges and frustrations, and look at the big picture. In the big picture of your life and your world, see the positive possibilities.

Let your awareness be filled with gratitude for all that is, and for your unique perspective within it. Treasure what you are thankful for, and be thankful for what you treasure.

The daily pains and setbacks are indeed real, and can certainly be very serious. Yet above and beyond all that, is your profoundly amazing existence, and every good possibility you can imagine.

There is much that must be done, and there is even more that you are able to do. Experience for a moment how good it feels to have the opportunity to make a difference.

Then act on that opportunity, make a real and beneficial difference in life, and feel even better. Remember how good you have it, and celebrate your good fortune by making even more.

— Ralph Marston


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Sunday, August 25, 2013

You are valuable

You are valuable. Others may not treat you as such, but that in no way diminishes the fact that you are truly and undeniably valuable. You are valuable, and nothing that anyone else can do or say will ever take that value away. The value of your life is yours to hide from or to ignore if you choose, or to live with magnificent fulfillment.

Your thoughts and opinions are valuable. The more they are challenged, tested and refined, the more valuable they become. Your interests, passions and experiences are valuable. Even your disappointments and limitations have much positive value because of the learning and perspective they provide.

You are valuable, and it is your unique challenge in every moment to fulfill that value. Though it is much easier to pretend that you have no value, what is easiest is not what is best.

For ultimately, life is considerably more rich and more rewarding, more filled with joy and real meaning, when you live true to the value that is you. Know that you are indeed valuable, and let that value shine.

— Ralph Marston


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Monday, August 26, 2013

The less you need

Much of what you think you need, you may not need at all. Challenge your assumptions, and free yourself of needless needs.

The less you need, the more you can enjoy. The less you need, the richer you are.

Certainly there are very real necessities and obligations in your life. But there’s nothing to be gained by piling your own invented needs on top of them.

Life might in fact be much better if you made the choice to do without some of the things you think you can’t do without. Letting go of self-imposed burdens can open many doors to new experiences and joys.

Although being needy may feel comfortable, living with positive purpose and intention feels much better. Look for opportunities to get away from your needs and into your possibilities.

Live by choice, not merely by habit. Let go of the needless needs, and feel the exquisite, empowering freedom.

— Ralph Marston


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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Positively purposeful

Don’t waste your energy on being annoyed and resentful. Put your energy into doing something positive about your situation.

To the degree that you’re filled with annoyance or frustration or anger, you’re ineffective. And that just leads to more annoyance, frustration and anger.

However, you can choose to break the cycle. You can choose to be positively purposeful.

If someone acts in a rude and disrespectful way, let it be that person’s problem and not yours. Let it go, and move on ahead with what you’ve chosen to do.

Though there are plenty of things to be angry about, there are almost no good things your anger can accomplish. Rather than reacting with anger, redirect your energy into intentional, positive purpose.

Don’t let rude, annoying people choose your attitude. Choose your own positively purposeful attitude, and reward yourself with a rich and fulfilling life.

— Ralph Marston


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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Little bits

If all you can do right now is a little bit, do it. Those little bits will quickly add up.

Value that is built over time, in small increments, tends to be value that also lasts for a long time. Use each opportunity, each day, to build more.

Doing something, even if it is just a little bit, is infinitely more productive than doing nothing. So do something, where you are, with what you have, using the time that’s available to you.

By doing something now, you increase the value of what you’re able to do later. By doing something useful with this moment, you preserve the moment’s value long after the moment has passed.

By all means, do as much as you can. And if all you can do right now is just a little bit, that’s a whole lot more than nothing.

Do a little bit now, a little bit later, and as much as you can each chance you get. Soon you’ll have a whole lot of good things to show for your efforts.

— Ralph Marston


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Thursday, August 29, 2013

No apologies

If you have hurt someone, then apologies are most certainly in order. If you haven’t, then you have no need to apologize to anyone.

Be who you are, loving who you love, admiring what you admire, and valuing what you value. Instead of worrying about what other people might think, focus on what will bring you authentic fulfillment.

Be kind and helpful and loving toward others, but don’t be a slave to their opinions. Live with richness, with originality, and with no apologies.

Make your own way through each day, taking responsibility for your actions and for your life. Be true to your highest, authentic values, doing what you know is right and good, creative and valuable.

Your life is unique and precious, so give it the respect and commitment it deserves. Your possibilities are amazing, so use your full efforts to bring the best of them unashamedly to life.

Live with true purpose and rock solid integrity. And you won’t be wasting your time or energy on apologies.

— Ralph Marston


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Friday, August 30, 2013

Think your best

Right now, you have the opportunity to choose your thoughts. And the thoughts you choose will have a direct impact on the life you live.

Your thoughts focus your awareness. The direction of your awareness determines which of life’s possibilities you see, explore, and fulfill.

The things you think about over and over again become crucial components of your reality. Take positive, purposeful, persistent control of your thoughts, and you can point your life in whatever direction you choose.

Your mind has great power. Use that power to bring more meaningful goodness into your life and your world.

Choose not to waste your valuable thoughts on meaningless and negative things. Instead, invest your thoughts each day so that they will lift life higher.

It’s amazing what you can think, and even more amazing where your thoughts can lead. Think of life at its very best, and you’re on your way to making it so.

— Ralph Marston


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Saturday, August 31, 2013

Grand adventure

Don’t just sit there. Make a richer, more beautiful, more meaningful, more fulfilled life out of every moment you have.

Don’t complain that things are bad. Accept that things are as they are, and make new goodness and value from them.

This is your life, your moment, your opportunity to make a difference. This is your day, filled with abundance that’s ready to be transformed into unique greatness.

Instead of avoiding the challenges, embrace them. Instead of being intimidated by the limitations, be inspired to find new ways around them.

You don’t have to settle for just getting by or merely making it through the day. You are capable of so very much more, so go for it.

Realize what a magnificent opportunity you have, right here and now. And fully live the grand adventure that is your life.

— Ralph Marston


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