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bluidkiti
09-01-2015, 07:28 AM
September 1

Ahead of the demands

You cannot avoid the fact that life demands much of you. What you can do, is demand even more of yourself.

Expect more of yourself than others expect of you. Then, instead of being pressured by the expectations and demands of others, you’ll already be way ahead of those expectations.

Set your standards higher than anyone else you know, and live each moment true to those high standards. You’ll never have to be concerned about failing to meet anyone else’s standards.

Set your own deadlines, far in advance of those deadlines you know you will have to meet. Then, instead of rushing to catch up, you’ll already be able to move forward to whatever is next.

Life is demanding, yet you can choose to be even more demanding of yourself. That enables you to meet the demands of life on your own terms.

Choose to see life’s demands not as a burden, but as an opportunity. Get out ahead of those demands, where you can work on your own terms to create achievement, satisfaction and fulfillment.

— Ralph Marston

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bluidkiti
09-02-2015, 06:43 AM
September 2

Feel your new strength

Over the last few weeks and months, you have grown stronger. Today, feel your new strength.

In living your life, in meeting the challenges, you have learned and experienced, become more capable and effective. Step back, look at yourself objectively, and see how those new capabilities can be put to good use.

The future is bright because of the effort you’ve put forth to work through the past. Every challenge you’ve encountered has left you with new, positive possibilities.

Feel your new strength, and feel the urge that grows within you to put that strength into action. Remind yourself of what matters to you, and see new, creative ways to expand life’s goodness.

Once, you had great dreams, goals and ambitions, and you still do. Now, you are stronger and more capable of reaching them than ever before.

Feel your new strength, and feel the fresh new desire it gives birth to, the desire to make a difference. With purpose, passion, and an inspired love for life, put that desire into action.

— Ralph Marston

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bluidkiti
09-03-2015, 06:42 AM
September 3

Now add some action

You’ve got a big, exciting dream. Now add some action to it.

You’ve considered, planned and prepared. Now add some action.

You’re full of hope, and have worked yourself into a positive attitude. Now bring it all home with some good, solid action.

Are you wondering whether your idea has any merit? Put it into action and find out.

There’s a time for planning, for thinking, for talking and for preparing a detailed strategy. Then comes the time to put that strategy into action.

The possibilities of now are great, and they’re calling to you. Now, add some action.

— Ralph Marston

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bluidkiti
09-04-2015, 06:22 AM
September 4

You are needed

Because you’ve achieved, you now have the chance to do it again. Because you’ve persisted, you now can gain great value from continuing to persist.

Did you think this would be easy? Did you think you would be able to make one leap and then never have to make any effort again?

That’s not the way it works, and you wouldn’t want it to anyway. What gives richness to your life is the opportunity to participate, again and again, in making good things happen.

You are needed, you are necessary, you are in demand as someone who can make a difference. Consider what a blessing that is, and then think of what you can do about it.

All your effort has bought for you the opportunity to make even greater effort. That’s a very good and desirable thing.

You are needed to make a difference in life, today and every day. Feel how great it feels to be so needed, and enjoy fulfilling your beautiful obligation.

— Ralph Marston

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bluidkiti
09-05-2015, 05:53 AM
September 5

Embrace the miracle

Give life a reason to be good today. Allow yourself the space, the energy and the will to make it so.

Remind yourself that the future is always open to the way you choose to bend it. Give love, kindness, goodness and focused effort, making much more hope than there was before.

Offer yourself all kinds of chances to be yourself, true, joyful, curious, even adventurous. Take yourself up on those offers.

Think of the things that make you smile, and see if you can discover new ways to support, encourage and share them. Think of the things that challenge you, and decide to find new strength in stepping up to them.

Let your positive spirit fill your every action. Let yourself see how good life is, whatever conditions the moment may hold.

Here is your day to live like you love it. Embrace the miracle, and give it all your best.

— Ralph Marston

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bluidkiti
09-05-2015, 05:53 AM
September 6

Unhindered by the past

What if you woke up each day clearly remembering everything in your past without being emotionally hindered by any of it? What if you could treat each new moment as a fresh opportunity, free of outdated assumptions, resentment, anger, regret or doubt?

In fact, you can. You can choose what to think, and even how to feel.

In this moment, and every moment, you can think of your highest goals as achievable. You can feel passionate about living with positive purpose, and feel fully empowered to do so.

You can view the problems not as permanent barriers but rather as pathways for meaningful achievement. You can see the disappointments not as excuses to give up, but as reasons to push forward.

Your past can inform you, inspire you, and help you to understand who you are. Yet it never has to hold you back.

Right now is your opportunity to move decisively toward what you know is right. Now is when you create the future, unhindered by the past.

— Ralph Marston

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bluidkiti
09-07-2015, 07:29 AM
September 7

Seeing life in a new light

Your perspective is valuable. Changing it can be even more so.

Looking at the world from where you are, you see many useful things. Looking at it from somewhere else, you can see many more.

Habits, assumptions, and expectations support you and can serve you well. Sometimes, though, they can hide your best possibilities from you.

Every so often, choose to get away from the comfortable and expected. Give yourself a better idea of how life can be when it is not what you think it is.

Step away from what you always do and discover some things you never knew. Decide to take a different path, and even to venture down some of its side roads.

Give yourself the experience of seeing life in a new light. And you will illuminate a whole new set of great ideas.

— Ralph Marston

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bluidkiti
09-08-2015, 07:12 AM
September 8

Know you can do it

The only way to know you can do it is to do it. Have faith, and take the first step.

The only way to get beyond failure is to give it another shot, and another. Get back up, look in the direction of where you’re going and not where you’ve been, and go.

Remember why you started in the first place. And keep going.

You are always amazing when you choose to persist and when the work really means something to you. Latch on to the strong sense of purpose that will push you back up every time you fall, and keep going.

It will be harder than you thought and you’ll be stronger than you realized. That’s precisely why nothing else equals the feeling of achievement.

Create a lot more of that grand feeling for yourself. Share it far and wide.

— Ralph Marston

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bluidkiti
09-09-2015, 07:06 AM
September 9

Good things to be done

In this moment, on this day, is a whole world of possibilities. Grab on to the good ones, the ones that enrich all of life, and let them unfold through your efforts.

The energy of life surrounds you and flows through you. Give it a positive, purposeful direction.

There is beauty to be seen, to be loved, and more beauty to be created from it. There are ideas to be explored, experiences to be lived, lives to be lifted up, and value to be created.

Fly right on past all the petty, superficial concerns. You have important, fulfilling work to do.

You can learn, you can teach, you can love, encourage, build and improve. You can generously and respectfully offer your own perspective and your own efforts to a world that is rich in its potential.

There are lots of good things to be done, and today is your day to do them. Filled with love for life and its great possibilities, give it your best.

— Ralph Marston

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bluidkiti
09-10-2015, 07:44 AM
September 10

Bring positive energy

At times, other people will disappoint you. But that doesn’t mean you have to be disappointing in return.

In some cases, people will frustrate you with their recklessness and irritate you with their thoughtlessness. Yet the best response is not to be even more reckless or thoughtless yourself.

On the contrary, you have the opportunity to lead life and to lead others in a more positive direction. Yes, it takes strength and maturity, and yes you have it and can do it.

Imagine transforming a confrontational situation into an experience of cooperation and mutual respect. Imagine being the person to do that, and how quietly satisfying it feels.

Sure, it is naive to think you can resolve every conflict. But it is foolish to neglect the very real opportunities to work through differences in a peaceful and productive way.

See if you can swallow your disappointment and irritation, and look instead for ways to bring positive energy to negative situations. Chances are, you’ll make the difference that will make things better.

— Ralph Marston

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bluidkiti
09-11-2015, 06:12 AM
September 11

Big deal

Most of the things you make a big deal about won’t be a big deal for long. Many of the things that consume your attention, you won’t even remember in a couple of weeks.

Life sends a whole lot of seemingly urgent matters your way. The majority of those matters don’t really matter.

Before you get all caught up in the crisis of the moment, step back. Look at it from the perspective of your entire life.

If it really does matter in the big picture of things, then plunge yourself fully into doing something positive and useful about it. If it really doesn’t matter, then move yourself on to whatever does.

Make all the time you spend with life, quality time. Invest that time in the service of what you care about.

There is plenty of time to do what matters, if you will simply stay away from what doesn’t. Give your moments the respect they deserve, and from them you’ll create rich fulfillment.

— Ralph Marston

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bluidkiti
09-12-2015, 06:54 AM
September 12

Opportunity to create love

Today is an opportunity to create love. Today is an opportunity to care, and to put your caring into action.

You do not need permission, or any special skills or resources, to make a loving difference. All you have to be, is to be yourself, and to be willing.

Life is good for you to the extent you choose to give of yourself to it. Enjoy the opportunity that today gives you to give your best, to give your love.

Life is good, and you can add to the goodness in your own special ways. Right now, enjoy the experience of being a positive influence.

You will never regret the love you create. Even when the love you give is not recognized or appreciated by others, your life will be richer for having given it.

This day brings moments you can fill with whatever you choose. Fill them with love, and you’ll fill them as full as they can possibly be.

— Ralph Marston

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bluidkiti
09-12-2015, 06:56 AM
September 13

Live true

The way to care is not to find fault with others for failing to care. The way to truly, effectively care is to show, with your actions and your life, how you care.

The way to communicate a truth is not to insist on it, but to demonstrate it, to live it. The way to convince is not to argue, but to understand.

Being of assistance to others does not mean making them indebted to you. Give, not to boost your ego or influence, but to express the beauty of being alive.

To truly enjoy life, let go of any limitations you have placed on joy. Instead of setting up elaborate situations and expecting joy to come from them, simply choose to give joy to any situation.

Rather than striving to deny or hide from or fight against the truth, embrace it. Accept what is true, and put the power of truth on your side.

Though the universe is delightfully complex, life, at its heart, is not particularly complicated. Live true to who you are and though it won’t always be easy, you’ll live well.

— Ralph Marston

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bluidkiti
09-14-2015, 07:13 AM
September 14

Great things you can do

Feel your power today by putting it to use. Instead of wishing, worrying or wondering, discover how much you can accomplish by actually doing.

The problems that burden you will be less of a burden when you go to work on them. The challenges will loose their power to intimidate you once you experience yourself making progress.

This day is packed full of opportunity. The way to seize that opportunity is to take decisive action.

Find out what works and what doesn’t. Provide yourself with a whole new daily dose of real life, practical experience.

Grow stronger and more capable by making use of your capabilities. Stretch them to the limit, and then figure out new ways to go beyond those limits.

Today, there is a whole day full of great things you can do. Get busy, and enjoy discovering what they are.

— Ralph Marston

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bluidkiti
09-15-2015, 06:51 AM
September 15

Put excellence into it

Wherever you go, leave excellence in your wake. Whatever you do, discover ways to put excellence into it.

Excellence may not be perfection, yet excellence is certainly headed in that direction. Excellence happens when you live and act with the highest respect for the life of which you are fortunate to be a part.

Excellence is a mix of profound gratitude, uncompromisingly high expectations, persistent action, unyielding focus, love, respect and compassion. Excellence is fueled by a sincere appreciation for the opportunity you have to make a difference.

The point of excellence is not to gain advantage over others. The point of excellence is to make maximum and meaningful use of the abundance in which you’re immersed.

Excellence is a vision of the best life can offer. Excellence is the act of following through with that vision, in every moment, in every situation, every day.

Your life deserves all the excellence you’re willing to put into it. Live with an attitude of excellence, and use every opportunity to push the whole world forward.

— Ralph Marston

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bluidkiti
09-16-2015, 06:25 AM
September 16

Passion and energy

If you want more passion and energy in your life, act like it. Instead of depending on passion to push you into action, take action, and that action will create passion.

Passion doesn’t just come out of nowhere. It comes from being involved and invested in life.

If you’re not passionate about doing something, that’s completely normal and understandable. Get yourself involved in doing it anyway, and suddenly the passion is there.

If you’ve been searching endlessly for things you can be passionate about, search no more. Simply do something useful, then do another thing useful, and soon you’ll feel that passion you seek.

When you can’t think of a good reason to take action, here’s a great reason. Once you begin to act, plenty of reasons, along with passion and energy, will appear.

Put effort into what you care about, even if you only care a little. Your effort will bring your caring and your passion to a whole new level.

— Ralph Marston

bluidkiti
09-17-2015, 07:29 AM
September 17

Accept the challenge

Don’t fight your problems, because they will fight back even more fiercely. Allow them, accept them, and you gain the power to move beyond them.

Don’t pretend or wish or hope that the difficult situations are nonexistent. They are real, and it is by acknowledging the reality of their challenges that you begin to successfully address those challenges.

You are so powerful, so resourceful, so very determined and effective, when you allow yourself to be. Stop running, stop hiding, stop fighting, and let yourself start creating.

Start creating your life from a perspective of love. Instead of being fearful, anxious, angry or in denial about what is, be filled with joy about what you can now do.

Life is difficult, and in that difficulty you can experience your great, positive power. Accept what is, and feel the power rise within you.

You have done many great things, and you have much more to offer. Accept the challenge, and let it bring forth the best you’ve ever been.

— Ralph Marston

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bluidkiti
09-18-2015, 06:28 AM
September 18

Turn it into a good thing

If you’re disappointed with yourself, with someone else, with a particular situation or just with life in general, you’re at a powerful starting point. You can channel that energy of disappointment in a positive direction and do great things with it.

Feel the disappointment, and then let it pick you up, push you forward and get you going. Suddenly you’re fifty miles down the road, well on your way to meaningful achievement.

Don’t concern yourself with what went wrong, or with whatever things you dislike. Focus your attention on a great, shining vision of how you want life to be.

Give the power of your attention to your positive goals, to your dreams and highest aspirations. Give your time and energy to making all those great things happen.

Doing something positive with your disappointment takes a lot more effort than just sulking and brooding. And yet, very quickly, it feels a whole lot better to be doing something than to just stay mired in negativity.

When life disappoints you, the best choice you have is to turn it into a good thing. In fact, decide to make it into the best thing that ever happened, and leave your disappointment far behind.

— Ralph Marston

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bluidkiti
09-19-2015, 06:39 AM
September 19

Embrace the bigger picture

Use this moment for more than this moment. Use your energy for more than yourself.

Put some new value in your future. Put some new value in the world beyond you.

If you expect to be rewarded the instant you make the effort, you’ll severely limit what you can achieve. If you live only to meet your own narrow needs, you’ll miss out on life’s biggest opportunities.

Look beyond this moment and beyond yourself. The possibilities are endless, so don’t exclude yourself from the best ones.

You deserve more than merely what’s in it for you right now. You deserve to experience the joy that can be found far beyond your own concerns in this moment.

Embrace the bigger picture that stretches out beyond this time and beyond this situation. Think and act as if you live in a universe of limitless abundance and possibilities, for you do.

— Ralph Marston

bluidkiti
09-19-2015, 06:39 AM
September 20

New learning

You’re never too old, too knowledgeable or too experienced to learn something new. It can be positively energizing to learn a new skill or to improve significantly on an existing one.

One big hindrance to new learning is the assumption that you already know enough. In a world where knowledge is increasing at an unimaginable and accelerating pace, that’s an assumption that can get you in trouble.

Be truly thankful for what you know. Then make even better use of that knowledge by building on it.

Your mind benefits from challenging mental exercise just as your body benefits from rigorous physical activity. Keep your mind in great shape by opening it up to new and invigorating challenges.

Make your valuable life experience even more valuable by adding new skills and knowledge to it. With each new thing you learn come great new opportunities.

Open your mind to new learning. And enrich every area of your life.

— Ralph Marston

bluidkiti
09-21-2015, 06:28 AM
September 21

Reward yourself

Reward yourself when you follow through and do what you've told yourself you'll do. Reward yourself when you've been disciplined, focused and purposeful.

Behavior that is well-rewarded is behavior that is repeated. So encourage yourself to engage in more positive behavior by being good to yourself when you do.

Offer yourself a small, desirable reward for some specific task you must do, and then work to earn that reward. Give yourself the satisfaction of doing what must be done, and a little something extra.

When you're doing something difficult, you can be tempted to abandon the work and to do something more appealing. However, you can take that tempting activity and promise it to yourself as a reward rather than giving in to it as an escape.

Offer yourself a reward, and appeal to your own sense of propriety and honor by reminding yourself not to cheat. Honestly work your way to the reward, and then you can feel great about what you've earned.

Motivate yourself in a positive way by giving yourself small rewards for your most positive, effective behavior. Those small rewards will lead to the big reward of a more disciplined and productive you.

Ralph S. Marston

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bluidkiti
09-22-2015, 07:19 AM
September 22

Your best day
Decide that today will be your best day yet, and stick with that decision. Whatever comes along, find a way for it to fit into your characterization of today as the best day yet.

The quality of this day depends far more on your attitude and approach than on the situations you encounter. With a positive, empowered perspective, you can create value out of any situation.

So go ahead, and decide you will. Go ahead, and make the commitment to make this your best day yet.

As long as you're going to put your time and energy into living this day, it makes sense to get the very most out of it. So promise yourself that you will get the most, in a positive, loving way, for your world, for yourself and those you care about, and for all you value.

You don't need anyone else's permission or support to make this the best day ever. All you need is your own choice, plus a bit of resolve and persistence.

Wouldn't it be great to make this very day your best day so far? Go right ahead, right now, and make it so.

Ralph S. Marston

bluidkiti
09-23-2015, 06:39 AM
September 23

Powerful to be positive
In the space of a single moment, your life can dramatically change for the better. Without any visible change in your surroundings, without a sound or a look or even as much as a twitch from you, suddenly you can be a whole different person.

Choose to change your attitude, and you can immediately be living in a new world. Choose a positive attitude and suddenly you have placed yourself in a world filled with positive possibilities.

Your attitude determines what you see and how you see it. Your attitude determines what you are willing to do with whatever is available to you.

Certainly there are plenty of valid reasons to go through this day with a negative, despondent attitude. But even if there are a million compelling reasons to be negative, there's a reason to be positive that outweighs them all.

The fact is, a positive attitude empowers you in the way that nothing else can. The more reasons there are to be negative, the more powerful it is to be positive.

So, you can make excuses or you can make your way forward. Instantly change your life for the better, be positive, and get the power that enables you to do great things.

Ralph S. Marston

bluidkiti
09-24-2015, 06:43 AM
September 24

Missed opportunities
There is no limit to the number of ways you can experience joy. So there is no reason to ever stay disappointed about missed opportunities for joy.

Take that disappointment and let it push you forward to express and experience new joy. It could very well be that you discover a joy even more profound than what you missed out on.

Life's good possibilities keep on coming. Don't miss the next one because you're too wrapped up in disappointment over the last one.

Instead, take it upon yourself to be a conduit for life's best joys and possibilities. Let go of the past and give yourself plenty of space to experience a positive and fulfilling moment right now.

Enjoy the big, momentous events, the small, intimate moments, and everything in between. Decide that you can experience joy in the most unlikeliest of places, and you will.

Though you may have missed out on a few good things, they are far outnumbered by the whole world of positive possibilities in which you're now immersed. Step joyfully forward and delight in bringing the best of those possibilities to life.

Ralph S. Marston

bluidkiti
09-25-2015, 06:41 AM
September 25

Everyday creativity

Sometimes creativity starts with a flash of inspiration, but that is actually pretty rare. Most good and valuable creations are made by people who simply get started and stick with it.

Certainly it is romantic to think you have a special muse who bestows her creative brilliance upon you from time to time. In between those scarce celestial moments, though, it's good to have a more practical plan.

In fact, all sorts of magnificent, soaring fruits of creativity come about through plain old hard work. From rocket ships to business plans, musical compositions to golf lessons, magnificent paintings to website forms, creativity is an everyday affair.

You don't have to be a celebrated artist or film director to be meaningfully creative. You just have to take the time, do the work, and put your care and attention into it.

Life itself is a continuing creative process, and you have an opportunity to participate in it every day. Decide to make a positive difference, follow through on your decision, and you're being creative in a valuable way.

Gather inspiration from all the creativity you experience around you, and then do the work to make even more goodness in life. Whether your muse is calling to you or not, create something wonderful out of every day.

Ralph S. Marston

bluidkiti
09-26-2015, 06:38 AM
September 26

The brightest part

Make it your purpose to be the brightest part of someone's day today. Make it your business to be in the business of spreading good cheer to anyone you come in contact with.

Every person's life in this fast-paced world is filled with too many passionless transactions and not enough genuine interactions. So take each opportunity to be truly human to other humans.

Life is more than some bland spreadsheet where success is defined as just more of the same standard stuff. Life is the chance to be joyful in a million more ways than anyone has yet thought of.

Discover again and again how good a smile feels to give. You'll probably even experience how nice a smile feels to receive.

Make someone's day and it will make your day in a way that cannot be denied. Let go of the silly pretenses and let yourself be actually silly, in a way that is good and fun.

The world desperately needs what you can find real delight in giving. Shine a bright and positive light, and enjoy in the warm feeling as it reflects back on you.

Ralph S. Marston

bluidkiti
09-26-2015, 06:40 AM
September 27

Make it your choice

Let go of the thoughts that you need to do, that you need to have, and that you need to be this or that. Embrace the opportunities to choose to do, choose to have, and choose to be.

If you’re constantly catching up with your needs, you’re operating from a perspective of weakness. Instead, see the tasks, commitments and responsibilities as things you have chosen, and give your life the positive power it deserves.

From all the available possibilities, your choices have brought you to where you are today. Going forward, your choices can take you where you wish to go.

Don’t discourage or frustrate yourself by seeing yourself as burdened with needs. Make it your intentional choice to do what you do, and discover your true power and effectiveness.

Put energy, joy and satisfaction into your work by choosing to get it done. Add great value to your relationships, your commitments and responsibilities by choosing to honor them with the way you live.

Don’t let the perception of need enslave you. Allow the reality of your positive choices to give the power of purpose to all you do.

— Ralph Marston

bluidkiti
09-28-2015, 06:25 AM
September 28

Every choice you make

When faced with a choice, you don't have to make the easiest choice, or the most popular choice, or the most comfortable choice. You can make the best choice.

Choices matter, and what you do with your choices will determine what you do with your life. Put strength and intention in your choices, and that strength will ripple through all your moments and circumstances.

Every choice is an opportunity to make your future a more positive place. Every choice is your chance to move your life in the direction you most desire.

The best choices are not easy, but you're capable of much more than just taking the easiest path. You are destined for greatness, and your choices, large and small, are what will take you there.

Make choices that the strongest, most positive and successful person you can imagine would make. Make those choices consistently, and you will be that person.

Life unfolds in accordance with the choices you make in every moment. Now is your moment, this is your choice, and with it you can do great things.

Ralph S. Marston

bluidkiti
09-29-2015, 06:58 AM
September 29

Be at peace

Quiet your mind. You don't have to think through every moment before you live it.

Certainly it is good to think and to live intentionally. It is also good to sink into peaceful awareness.

Just be. Stand and simply experience what is in front of you, not what you worry about or imagine.

Refresh your memory of what it feels like to live a while with no agenda other than to be. Amaze yourself at the sheer beauty of life in an utterly ordinary place and time.

Allow yourself to fully experience what is here, what is now, and what is real. Yes, imagination is powerful, and action is essential, but not all the time.

Let your thoughts, your feelings and your whole self be at peace. Then take from that peace the strength to move forward with a renewed sense of purpose and vigor.

Ralph S. Marston

bluidkiti
09-30-2015, 06:04 AM
September 30

Slight improvement
There's a way you can make a slight improvement to something today. Then tomorrow, you can make a further slight improvement to the improvement you've already made.

A slight improvement is easy to make, so easy you can do it every day. And that's where its great power comes from.

When you build just a little bit each day on top of what you've already built, you can build truly great and valuable things. By disciplining yourself to consistently make slight improvements, you end up with major, life-changing achievements.

Too often we strive for sudden, dramatic changes, and almost as often are disappointed when they are beyond our reach. Yet the little improvements, the ones no one notices, are the most reliable and consistent way to move ahead.

To reach the big dreams, find ways each day to take small steps. A slight improvement here, a little progress there, a little more progress on top of that, and soon you have achieved a great deal.

Today is filled with opportunities to make those slight improvements, so seize those opportunities. And have fun knowing that you're headed steadily and reliably in the direction of your dreams.

Ralph S. Marston