April 27

What you do best

Possibilities fill your world today. Grab a few and go with them.

Allow the possibilities to energize you out of your weariness. Let them inspire you out of your complacency.

It’s great to develop capabilities and resources. What’s even better is when you put them to meaningful use.

Every moment that passes will never come again. Spend them all in ways that recognize and celebrate the precious value of the life that’s yours.

Transform potential value into realized, enduring value. Experience the satisfaction of reshaping opportunities into achievements.

Plenty of possibilities currently await your competence, your action, and your commitment. Do what you do best, and bring them fully to life.

— Ralph Marston

April 28

Best face forward

Think beyond the moment. Consider beyond the immediate transaction.

It may require a little more of your time, effort and resources to be reliable, friendly, helpful. Yet by doing so you’re investing in the long term, working to build relationships that can be of great value.

Be polite when you don’t need to be, and honest when no one is looking. In every encounter, in every choice, encourage habits within yourself that gain you the trust and genuine respect of others.

Not everyone will respond positively to your kindness and integrity, but don’t let that discourage you. Because the people who do resonate with such behavior have the potential to bring great value into your life.

For better or for worse, your reputation matters, and your reputation is not based on what you want it to be. Your reputation comes from what you do, again and again, consistently, year after year.

Even the smallest interactions make a big difference in the way the world sees you. Put your best, most authentically helpful face forward every chance you get.

— Ralph Marston

My secret is simple:
I Pray.

If you have a family that loves you, a few good friends, food on your table and a roof over your head. You are Richer than you think.

The Truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose, it will defend itself.

Silence and a Smile are two Powerful tools. Smiling is the way to solve many problems and Silence is the way to Avoid many problems.

April 29

Make it happen

You can actually get this done. Start where you are, and keep going.

Don’t be too concerned with whether it’s easy or hard, complicated or simple. Just determine what the next step is, and take it.

Challenges are sure to arise, and you can find a way to get through each one. Distractions will tempt you to wander from the path, yet you have the power to resist them.

Keep reminding yourself how good and right it feels when you know you’re making a difference. Offer yourself the reality of that feeling, again and again.

As each hour passes by, make it count for something. Let the completion of each task inspire you to start right in on the next one.

All of this is well within your ability. So go ahead, keep pushing forward, and make it happen.

— Ralph Marston

April 30

Quality of attention

Notice what enters your awareness from moment to moment. Does it merely promote and support some worn-out agenda, or is it a genuine experience of life?

The quality of what you pay attention to has much to do with the quality of your life and the lives around you. Beauty exists where you choose to see it, and expands when you invest effort to create more of it.

You continually select much of the energy that flows into you, and decide on pretty much all the energy flowing out from you. The more love and generosity you can put into those choices, the better for all involved.

You will never be perfect and you never have to be. For every day you have the extraordinary opportunity to be real.

Remain fully present, eager to know the truth of what is. Generously pass along what you gain from that truth through your actions.

You cannot un-live a single moment. So give each one your honest best as soon as it arrives.

— Ralph Marston

Big time Amen to that reading.