Daily Motivator - January

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January 29

Aim far and focus near

When the details of the moment confound and frustrate you, draw inspiration from the goal, the purpose, the vision you seek to fulfill. When that vision seems hopelessly far away, find solace in your ability to take small yet meaningful steps toward it from right where you are.

Set your aim high, and set your focus on the moment. Keep yourself aligned with your most treasured dreams, and keep yourself busy with the practical, useful, effective efforts that will bring those dreams to fruition.

Keep your aim far ahead and keep your focus upon all you can do right now. Let your work benefit from and be inspired by your purpose, and enable your purpose to be fulfilled by your work.

The big picture will motivate you to keep going. The small details will create the pathway for you to get there.

Many people dream but never fulfill those dreams, and too many others stay busy but never really are headed anywhere. By aiming far and focusing near, you can be both a dreamer and a doer, someone who follows a dream and actually reaches it.

Give purpose to your actions and actions to your purpose. Aim far, focus near, and work your way to exactly where you want to be.

— Ralph Marston

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January 30

Energy of achievement

Allow peace to fill you. Allow purpose to return to your awareness.

Discomfort and frustration have faded away. Now is your time to care, to focus on what matters, to love, to experience real things.

Feel the desire to make a difference, that burns brightly within. Ride upon the energy of that desire as it expands and sustains your positive, effective actions.

Now, the distractions cannot distract you. Now, your thoughts and efforts are aimed in a consistent, beneficial direction.

Now, you are in the zone where great achievement is brought forth. Now, you experience the extraordinary satisfaction of making good and meaningful progress.

Creativity is unleashed, efforts feel effortless, and the energy of achievement flows freely. Now, get some great and valuable work done.

— Ralph Marston

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January 31

Much good to do

You cannot have life without some adversity. What you can have is strength in the face of adversity, and that’s a much better bargain.

You cannot make progress without encountering challenges. What you can have, though, are the courage, determination, and persistence to push through those challenges.

Do not wish for life to be easy, because that is a wish for life to be empty. Seek instead the strength and fortitude to live a life filled with meaning and substance.

Awaken again each day to the wondrous reality of your problems, your possibilities, your limitations, courage, gratitude, disappointment, generosity, and love. Life is a rich bundle of powerful forces and varied directions, with so many great options for living it well.

Find solid confidence in knowing that whatever you encounter, you can encounter with grace, with integrity, with a commitment to add more goodness to life. Though you cannot choose the strength or direction of the wind, you can decide precisely where it propels you.

Welcome that wind as it teases, as it shifts, as it howls, and revel in the awesome energy that is life. You have much good to do, and here is your day, your opportunity, to do it.

— Ralph Marston