Daily Motivator - March

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March 1

You can take it

You can take disappointment and channel it into determination. You can take criticism and use it to change weakness into strength.

You can take a difficult problem and find the positive opportunities in it. You can take an idea and develop it into a valuable advantage.

You can take what doesn’t work and figure out how to improve it so it works well. You can take what does work on a small scale and expand it into new and larger endeavors.

You can take confusion, disorder, noise, and craft it into structure, focus and harmony. You can take a dreary situation and inject fresh energy and enthusiasm into it.

You can do all this by engaging your intention, driven by the power of positive purpose. Every moment is subject to change, and you can choose to make those changes beneficial for yourself and those around you.

Whatever life sends your way, you can take it. And with it you can make something great.

— Ralph Marston

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March 2

Do the good work

You don’t have as much time as you’d like, yet with the time you do have there’s much you can accomplish. Go ahead and get started.

It won’t be perfect, yet it can be very good. Go ahead and get it done.

You’ll run into some complications, setbacks, inconveniences, yet you’re fully capable of dealing with all those things and more. You’ll be interrupted, distracted, challenged, maybe even made fun of, but even so, you can persist and prevail.

Your initial decision to move forward is a good one. So stop second-guessing yourself and start getting the work done.

The excuses are many, yet your intention is stronger than any of them. Exercise that strength, and with confidence in your choice to do so, keep going.

Rise above the struggle with your own reluctance and doubt. Do the good work you know you can do.

— Ralph Marston

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March 3

Respond with love

Let love be your first response, for your sake, and for everyone’s sake. Advance goodness in the world, not pain or outrage.

Love always has a place. Love frees you from the burdens of judgment, retribution, and the downward spirals they engender.

When love is your first response, you won’t waste energy on anger, blame, or conflict. Love can soothe the stress of the situation and melt away anxiety.

No matter where others are coming from, you can operate from a perspective of love. Seek to act from genuine love, and you’ll uncover the most beneficial options.

Love will not magically solve all the problems. Love will challenge you to work on truly making the situation better without creating new problems.

Let love be your first response. And give yourself an advantage that’s in everyone’s best interest.

— Ralph Marston

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March 4

The value inside

Encourage, honor, support and add to the value inside. Strengthen that inner value with new experience, love, learning, peaceful and joyful moments.

The value inside can never be diminished or taken away by anyone else. The value inside propels quality and substance into every experience.

The value inside makes you more articulate, more interesting, more understanding and effective. The value inside is grounded in truth, in authenticity, in the unique beauty of the real you.

The quality of your inner life directly drives the quality of your entire life. Although the value inside is not everything, it touches and positively affects everything that matters to you.

Take good care of the value inside. Respect and appreciate it, and share it freely, for the more you express it, the more powerful and beneficial it becomes.

Make frequent use of the value inside. Let it give wisdom, purpose and energy to all you do.

-Ralph S. Marston

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March 5

Keep going strong

Leave no room in this day for what might have been. Make no place for regret to hide.

Fill the hours with action that’s true to your purpose. Adorn each moment with thankfulness, wonder, and joy.

You have a great chance and you have it right now. You have time, energy, life, and love, and the good sense to know what to do with them.

Though it would be easy to waste this bright moment, you’re much too smart for that. You know from each choice flows a cascade of results, and you’re determined to create the best ones.

This day is now yours, yet it won’t be for long. So you’ve already started to fill it with life.

Keep going strong, for you’re doing great. You have much to accomplish, and you’re well on your way.

— Ralph Marston

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March 6

Stay with now

Don’t postpone your joy while working toward or waiting for some arbitrary milestone. Delight in the process as you move through it, long before the completion.

Remember to enjoy life when you are living it, which is now. Allow yourself, your world, your experience to be enough for the moment, in the moment.

Seeking to get more later, to do something different later, will not fulfill you. When that anticipated moment arrives, you lose out on the enjoyment because you’re already yearning for the next one.

Jump free of the never-ending cycle that has you striving and striving, only so you can strive some more. Open yourself to the beauty, fulfillment, and joy that is already here, now.

What you have now, what you are now, what you do now, expresses the magnificent sum of life’s goodness. Stay with now as it carries you along, rather than trying in vain to rush ahead of it or clinging to what it once was.

All existence, all possibilities, are now. Stay with now, and live the immense value as it steadily unfolds.

— Ralph Marston

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March 7

Decide exactly

Whether it is easy or difficult is not the issue. What matters is whether you choose to do it or not.

Is the intended result important enough to earn your commitment? Then you’ll carve a path through all the difficulties and complexities.

There is no question you can achieve whatever matters most to you. The question you must answer is, what exactly does matter most to you?

What are you willing to invest the powerful substance of your effort, your time, your resources, to create? Specifically, and in rich detail, what is it?

You are capable of more things than you could ever name. What you must do is precisely name those objectives upon which you wish to expend your amazing and versatile capability.

You’ve successfully lived every day of your life, and now it’s time to do more. Decide exactly what you will achieve, and experience the extraordinary thrill of making it happen.

— Ralph Marston

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March 8

Positive perspective

Time you spend being resentful is time you’ll never spend being joyful. Energy you consume by worrying is energy you cannot use to move forward.

You decide what gets to you and you decide what doesn’t. You decide what merits a response and what that response will be.

The world around you may often seem angry and divisive. But that in no way forces you to be angry and divisive too.

It’s in your best interest to consider your best interest before doing whatever you do. Almost always, your interest is better served by positive intention than by negative reaction.

Kindness, compassion, and understanding toward others is also great kindness toward yourself. Ease away from the burdens of blame and retribution, and reward your spirit with forgiveness and love.

Resolve to be a source of goodness rather than a receptacle of negativity. Live with a positive perspective, and live at your highest level.

— Ralph Marston

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March 9

Bigger

Connect to a purpose that’s bigger than your fear. Latch on to a goal that’s bigger than your hesitation.

Do something right that’s bigger than what’s wrong. Rev up your current enthusiasm to be bigger than your past disappointment.

Don’t get sucked into fighting against negativity. Be smart, be effective, and overwhelm it with your positive presence.

The possibilities are already big. Engage them, work to fulfill them, and make them even bigger.

Make your intentions bigger than the distractions. Choose your actions so they’re bigger than the challenges.

On any day, in every situation, life has real value. See that value, appreciate it, and with all you do, make it bigger.

— Ralph Marston

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March 10

Your intention

Achieve by taking action when it is necessary, not just when it is convenient. Forge new value from the situation as it is, not by waiting until circumstances are ideal.

Create not just when the mood strikes you, but on a regular, consistent schedule. Get into a creative, productive state with your own efforts, not by yearning for perfect conditions.

The distractions are too powerful and widespread already. Don’t add to their distracting, destructive power by being flimsy or equivocal with your intentions.

Decide what you will do, and stick to your decision. Remain aware of and informed by what’s going on, but refuse to be knocked off track by the turbulence around you.

You can’t control weather, politics, markets, culture, traffic, and such. Still, you can decide precisely what you will achieve each day and then do the work to make it happen.

You have great things to do. Don’t let a little discomfort, inconvenience, or distraction stand in your way.

— Ralph Marston

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March 11

Real world action

Not sure what to do? Don’t let that stop you.

The only way you can be sure of what will happen is after it happens. Take action, see where it leads, and use that experience to improve your next action.

Of course, consider what you’re doing, and think through the possible consequences. Just don’t think so long and hard that you fail to make a move.

Don’t take foolish risks, but do be willing to experiment. Do step forward into unknown territory, for that’s where you’ll encounter rich new possibilities.

Put thought into what you do, and remember this. You’ll discover much more by doing than you will by thinking.

Allow real world action to solidify your direction. Go ahead, get going, and soon you’ll be doing something great.

-Ralph S. Marston

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March 12

Mode of achievement

A small improvement is enough. Because a small improvement sets your direction, upgrades your attitude, raises your perspective.

Look around, become aware, ask yourself. What small improvement can you make right now?

Notice what troubles you and think of what you can do about it. Then act on it.

If you’re not presently willing or able to do anything about it, look again, keep looking. There’s something you can improve, right here, right now.

Doing so will alter your entire outlook for the better. Doing so will put you in the mode of achievement, and open up vast new expanses of possibility.

Today, embrace your responsibility to make the world a better place. Make a small improvement, put yourself in the mode of achievement, and keep at it.

— Ralph Marston

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March 13

All the good you have

There are so many things to be thankful for, you cannot ever know what they all are. Though you face difficult problems, and life is not perfect, you have potential beyond anything you can comprehend.

Just in the last sixty seconds, processes you’ll never understand occurred within your body to keep you alive. You can see, think, hear, speak, take action, move from place to place, make choices and then act on those choices.

For thousands of years, people have acquired knowledge through unimaginable toil, pain, patience, inspiration, ingenuity, and heartbreak. Most of that priceless recorded knowledge is now immediately available to you with a few mouse clicks.

What you have is amazing. What will you do with it today, to live up to the limitless potential that’s right in front of you?

Gratitude is good, but woefully insufficient. Your own immense good fortune obligates you to so much more.

Be thankful that you have more to be thankful for than you can ever know. So put your gratitude into action, and discover how much more good you can do with all the great things you have.

— Ralph Marston

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March 14

Do it now

Putting off a difficult task until later makes it more difficult, more burdensome. Instead, do it now.

Act now, and you’ll act with maximum effectiveness. Act now, and the work will be done.

Sure, it’s more fun to do what you want to do instead of what you have to do. Yet doing what you want is even more fun when you’ve already done what you have to do.

Exercise your own discipline to do it now, when you have a choice. Or you’ll be disciplined by factors outside your control to do it later, when you don’t have a choice.

The more difficult and undesirable the task, the more reason you have to go ahead and do it. You’ll spend much less time having to do it, and much more time having it done.

Do your present self and your future self a big favor. Do it now.

— Ralph Marston

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March 15

Take action

Don’t let your doubts stop you from taking action. Don’t let your hopes become a substitute for action.

There’s one sure strategy to determine the best way forward. Take action.

Take action, and you’ll find out soon enough what works and what doesn’t. Take action, and with each experience you get better at it.

You can guess, plan, speculate, and argue over what’s the best approach. Or you can take action and find out for sure.

Your doubts may be valid or they may be completely unfounded. Your hopes may be pure fantasy or they may point you toward the best thing you’ve ever done.

You owe it to yourself to find out once and for all. You owe it to yourself, to the world, to take action.

— Ralph Marston