Daily Motivator - November

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November 16

Perspective of goodness

You’ve done many worthy and valuable things. Let yourself feel good about yourself.

You can see the possibilities, and act on them to make a positive difference. Let yourself feel good about the future.

No one is perfect, yet each person you encounter has something unique and valuable to offer. Let yourself feel good about the people around you.

Life has its ups and downs, with each experience bringing new learning and growth. Let yourself feel good about the direction events are moving.

Let yourself feel good. Then find some new way to express your positive feeling with your life, with your actions.

Feel good about where you are, what you’re doing, and the world you’re in. Live life with a perspective of goodness, and you’ll create real value in every moment.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 17

Choose challenge

Do the things that challenge you, not just the easy, automatic, mindless things. Do the things that challenge you, and get maximum results from the time you spend.

Challenges give you the opportunity to grow smarter, more capable, more effective. Challenges can even make you kinder, more generous and understanding.

When you have a choice, choose the challenging task. When you don’t have a choice, challenge yourself to find a way.

Choose challenge, and make it a meaningful challenge. That’s the kind that results in achievement.

Challenge will stimulate, energize, wake up your passion. Challenge pushes you to discover how much better you can be.

There’s some challenge right now that can change your life, your world for the better. Choose challenge, and choose to live at your highest level.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 18

Add new value

There is much value in this life, in this existence. You can add much more.

If all you ever do is consume value, you’re cheating yourself. Because as you understand at the deepest level, making a difference is what makes life rich and meaningful.

It can be tempting to give in to complacency, to just coast, and live off the value that’s already there. Sure, take a break, relax, do nothing for a while, but not so long that it drains the meaning out of life.

Every person wants to matter, and the way to do that is to make a difference. You are hard wired to create value in some way or another.

So acknowledge that impulse and nourish it. Express in your own special way what it means to be alive by adding new value as the days go by.

See the beauty, feel the substance, experience the wonder. And add your own new value to it all.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 19

Immensity of substance

The most effective you’ve ever been, is still within you. The greatest joy you’ve ever known, is still within you.

You carry with you every passion, every purposeful feeling, every act of kindness and compassion. Take a moment, let your awareness sink into your very center, and feel it all.

You’ve been up, down, delighted, disappointed, joyous, fearful, focused and peaceful. Consider the immensity of your life substance, and think of what you can now do with it all.

See that you are a dynamic bundle of energy and possibility driven by purpose and love. To any situation, you bring a unique and valuable expression of life.

Today, find strength and confidence in how far you’ve come. Right now, find new ways of adding to the rich substance that is already yours.

Rise above the concerns, frustrations, distractions of the moment. Feel the substance, the goodness, the momentum, and carry it forward.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 20

Do what is difficult

Achievement is the result of doing what is difficult. If you're not willing to do what is difficult, you won't get very far.

Doing what is difficult is not really as bad as it might seem, when you simply go ahead and do it. Stop avoiding, quit procrastinating, and you actually make it easier to do what is difficult and necessary.

Many times you've seen how working through challenges can strengthen you. You've felt your confidence grow by choosing to face life's difficulties rather than hide from them.

In difficulty is great opportunity. Be the person who seizes that opportunity.

Jump in and take on the tough assignments. Be willing to do what is difficult, and you bring success, satisfaction, new value and fulfillment into your life.

Show life how much you love it by having the courage to do what is necessary, even when it is difficult, uncomfortable and inconvenient. Do what is difficult, and leave a positive trail wherever you go.

Ralph S. Marston

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November 21

Every choice matters

Reality is what it is, and wishing or pretending for it to be different accomplishes nothing. Yet what you do with reality is up to you, and can make all the difference in the world.

Your perspective, the way you see things, does not itself change anything. However it is that very perspective that inspires and enables you to make valuable, significant changes.

No matter how the situation is, you can be optimistic about it. Because you have the opportunity to do something good with it.

Past experiences and trends can provide valuable guidance for the future. Yet the future depends much more on what gets done than on what has already happened.

Every day, every action, every thought determines how the future unfolds. From the reality of what is, you can create an even better, more fulfilling reality.

Every choice matters. Today, make the choices that make your future bright.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 22

Fresh new moment

Failure persists only when you continue to allow it. Success remains only when you continue to support it.

What happened yesterday, last week, ten years ago is not what matters. What you do today, right now, where you are, with what you have, is what counts.

Let previous achievements inspire you, not make you complacent. Let past disappointments fuel your determination rather than your doubt.

This is a fresh new moment with a whole new set of possibilities. Feel the positive power of now, and make it yours.

Build new achievements on top of the old ones. Build new value on top of the desirable as well as the undesirable outcomes of the past.

What matters now is what you’re doing now, for yourself, your world, and all your treasures. Give care, energy, purpose to each fresh new moment, making more and more richness as time goes on.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 23

Let optimism be the reason

A successful day begins with successful thoughts and expectations. When you sincerely expect to get it done, you’re well on your way.

The reality of this moment is what it is. What truly matters, though, is your interpretation of reality, and that depends on you.

The way you see the world determines the way you respond to it. See this day as an opportunity, and you’ll act to capitalize on the opportunity.

Your thoughts and expectations alone do not influence the situation. They do influence you, and will push you to do great things in any situation.

Stop looking for reasons to be optimistic, and let your own optimism be the reason. Choose positive expectations, a positive frame of mind, and let yourself be driven to create positive results.

Today, live the great day you deserve by first envisioning it in your mind. Then follow that vision and enjoy the satisfaction of working to make it all come true.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 24

Allow gratitude

Gratitude empowers, energizes, opens you to new possibilities. Allow gratitude to flow, now, into every part of your awareness.

You already know how good you feel when you feel thankful. Allow that feeling to put all your other feelings in a positive perspective.

Gratitude connects you, calms frustration, eases anxiety, promotes understanding. Allow your gratitude to spread out to the world that surrounds you.

Allow gratitude to create a positive space within you. Fill that space with joy, achievement, peace and love.

Allow gratitude to inform your thinking, to color your words, to guide your actions. Allow gratitude to shine its light on the endless abundance in which you’re always immersed.

This day, this moment, this situation is a culmination of all the good and valuable things that are your life. Allow gratitude, and allow yourself to make the very best of all that is.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 25

At peace with life

Today, the frustrations do not have to frustrate you. The worries have no power to worry you.

Today, the most annoying things will not annoy you. For you have chosen to live at peace with life.

Today you have no need to prove yourself, plus many opportunities to improve yourself and your world. You can live with a true sense of purpose, and rise above what previously would have kept you down.

You can peacefully accept what is, where you are, and what has happened. Guided by your highest values and most treasured dreams, today you can make best use of all you have.

Today, you can relate to others and respond to events from a perspective of positive purpose. Setting aside differences and disagreements, you can understand and cooperate to do what’s in everyone’s best interest.

Today you can remind yourself how precious and valuable your life, and all of life, is. Today, you can live accordingly, with peaceful, purposeful power.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 26

Live your value

Do all you can to be capable and competent, decisive, effective, successful. But don’t let your whole identity get wrapped up in those things.

You are more than your capabilities, more than your achievements. Those things are great, and important, yet they are things you do, not who you are.

No loss, no failure, no reversal of fortune can diminish the true and unique value of you. You can do impressive things as well as humiliating things, and still your beautiful essence remains.

Achievements large and small are concrete expressions of the value that is your life. Yet that value is always there, with and without the achievements.

From deep inside, you feel driven to share the value of your life and to build upon it. You do so with your efforts, your words, your presence.

And no matter what you do, or fail to do, or how you appear in the eyes of others, the value is ever there. Know this always, and feel the confidence to live your value with authenticity, kindness, love and joy.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 27

Let go of what you're not

Let go of what you're not. Your life, your time and your energy are too important to waste.

Let go of what you're not, and make more room for all you love. Drop the pretenses and embrace authentic goodness.

You can make the biggest positive difference by being you. You can change the world for the better by being your authentic best.

Let go of what you're not and celebrate all you are. Wrap your awareness around what really matters.

You'll never be satisfied following anyone else's dream. Real fulfillment comes from achieving what is most meaningful to you.

Let go of what you're not, and give yourself the space to fully live as the unique, beautiful person you are. Let go of what you're not, and free yourself to give your best to all of life.

Ralph S. Marston

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November 28

Actual priorities

Your priorities are not what you say they are, or what you merely think they should be. Your priorities are what you actually do.

There are only so many hours in each day. Your priorities are demonstrated by the way you invest that time.

Are your actual priorities in line with your imagined or desired priorities? If not, you have the power, the opportunity, and a compelling reason to make a change.

Be relentlessly honest with yourself and ask yourself this question. Are you spending the moments of this day, of every day, supporting and expanding what’s most important to you?

Fulfillment is more than just giving lip service to what you care about. You have the chance, with each decision, with each moment, to create meaningful, lasting substance.

This is your life, and this is your day to focus strengths, skills and resources on all you love. Make it your actual, living priority to do so.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 29

Embrace responsibility

Stop hoping that someone or something or some lucky event will rescue you from responsibility. Instead, embrace responsibility.

Embrace responsibility, and feel the power of your own potential as it is deployed. Discover how strong you are and how your strength grows with every exertion.

Effort spent running, hiding from responsibility is wasted effort. Responsibility always will catch up to you.

So don’t let responsibility grab you from behind. Run eagerly toward responsibility, ready to take hold of it, doing the work to make it work for you.

Put yourself in the most advantageous position by aligning yourself with responsibility. Respect and appreciate the power of responsibility, and you’ll be able to handle it well.

Feel your purpose by putting it into action. Embrace responsibility, and live up to your highest potential.

-Ralph S. Marston

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November 30

Keep up the good work

Each kindness you offer makes the world a better place. Every word of encouragement lifts life a little higher.

All the times you choose to do what’s right, and good, and valuable, you create new goodness. By speaking the truth, and living authentically, you make truth itself more powerful and present.

You’re making a difference, making life positive and meaningful. Today is another opportunity to keep up the good work.

Your efforts create value, and that value grows. Your love and generosity inspire new richness, and that richness expands.

You know how good it feels when you leave people, places, situations better off than when you found them. It feels so good because it is so good, and you’ll have many more chances to do it again.

You are at your best when you’re enabling love, hope, goodness and joy. And every day is a day to be your best.

-Ralph S. Marston