Daily Motivator - August
 

August 1

It’s your choice

Right now, or three hours from now, or fourteen days from now, you have a choice. At any point in time, you can continue the way you’re going or you can choose a different path.

When you’re bound by seemingly endless obligations and limitations, you can choose how to think of them and how you will handle them. No matter how others treat you, or how outside events unfold, you can choose your next thought, your next move.

In what specific direction are your current choices leading you? Ask yourself and be honest, is that really where you wish to go?

You’ve spent a lifetime experiencing what works and what doesn’t, and in every moment going forward you have a choice. That’s an increasingly powerful combination.

Continue making the choices that serve you well. Quickly change the ones that don’t.

How is this day, this year, this life going to be? It’s your choice.

— Ralph Marston

August 2

Give now a chance

Don’t wait for something better. Allow this present moment to be the better experience you desire.

Right now is perfectly capable of holding all the joy, beauty, and fulfillment you can imagine. Rather than longing for the past or wishing for the future, give now a chance.

Let go of judgments about what should and shouldn’t be. Choose to see the great value in front of you, and enlarge it.

Every feeling you can dream of experiencing, is possible now. All the love you can possibly give, you can give now.

Let love and gratitude push doubt and dismay out of your awareness. Every possibility that exists, is now.

Give now a chance, now. And give yourself the rich life you deserve.

— Ralph Marston

All we are saying, is give now a chance:170:

When we are in the moment,in the now,we are connected to our God. i know He is with me.

August 3

Buy in

Don’t be half-hearted about what you do. If you’re going to take on the job, make sure you buy in to the job.

Before you start, fully accept that the work must be done and that you’re the person who will do it. Then you won’t waste time fighting against yourself.

Convince yourself of the necessity, of your desire, of your choice to make the commitment. Then put all your focus and energy into honoring that commitment.

Spend your time making progress rather than making excuses. Fill your awareness with ideas and strategies rather than resentment and doubt.

You don’t have to like everything you do, or even completely agree with what it is or how it’s done. What’s important is that you accept responsibility, within yourself, to do it.

Do yourself and everyone else a favor. If you’re going to take on the task, then choose to do it wholeheartedly.

— Ralph Marston

Big time amen...

Smiling, reminds me of my NA friend who said to me about 23 years ago, ''It doesn''t sound like you have a lot of acceptance.'' I replied, "If I had acceptance, I wouldn't be sitting here b*tchin' at you." :(

August 4

Prepared for opportunity

You cannot run and catch up to an opportunity you’ve already missed. Yet you can prepare yourself for the next one that is sure to come along.

The reason you missed that last opportunity is because you didn’t recognize it soon enough. The time to seize an opportunity is before it has paid off.

Opportunity is not a free ride that’s available only to those who are lucky or well connected. Opportunity is a fertile situation where value can be created, available to those who are willing to take the risk and do the work.

You see what you look for. To see opportunity, look for ways to help others, to create value, to make life more fulfilling and enjoyable, to solve problems, to learn and grow.

Prepare yourself by choosing to be generous, optimistic, enthusiastic, and willing to see the best possibilities. Opportunity emerges from a positive-facing perspective, so get yourself there.

The next opportunity is on the way. Get yourself in its path, ready to give your best.

— Ralph Marston

August 5

Cheerful about it

When you don’t get your way, be cheerful about it. There’s no good reason to be any other way.

Being angry, spiteful, resentful, despondent, destroys you’re effectiveness and repels other people. That’s not going to accomplish anything good.

You can’t change the past by being angry about it. What you can do is dramatically improve the present and the future by being cheerful.

Be cheerful and you do better work, attract positive people, improve your relationships and interactions. Be cheerful, and see opportunities that you’d otherwise never notice.

Be cheerful, and escape being sizzled by stress and paralyzed by anxiety. Be cheerful, and reap all the benefits of truly enjoying the moment you’re in.

Yes, by all means be realistic. At the same time, be cheerful, and position yourself to make the very best of reality.

— Ralph Marston

To be 100% truthful, sometimes it's easy to hold on to negative feelings, that's when you know the lower power is attacking, this is the time to put on the full armor of God, we must always remember The Higher Power Has Our Backs. So we must always keep our heads up high. Amen.

August 6

Start doing

What have you been waiting to do, wishing you would start, hoping you could complete? Today is your opportunity to make it happen.

Any hesitation or doubt you’ve experienced in the past is now gone. Confidently breathe in the fresh, energizing air of this new moment, and get to work.

You don’t have to be stopped by your fear of potential problems. Just be willing to deal with whatever issues arise, when they arise.

You’ve held yourself back long enough. Give yourself the maximum amount of time to live the life you wish to live, by acting on it now.

Your best goals and dreams deserve to be transformed into reality. You deserve the incomparable experience of making that happen.

Today is your day to stop waiting and start doing. Go ahead, and allow yourself to give your best.

— Ralph Marston

August 7

Challenges in front of you

Don’t drag old troubles along from yesterday. Don’t borrow imagined troubles from tomorrow.

Focus on the challenges in front of you. Work on the affairs in which you can make a positive difference.

Cleanse your awareness of the things you can’t do anything about. Enable yourself to direct all your energy toward making meaningful progress.

Rise above any disappointments you may be holding on to. What matter most now are the good things you can do to move life forward.

Let go of the need to impress, of any worries about what others will think. Replace them with confidence that your actions are good, valuable and productive, right for you and your world.

Offer full attention and persistent action to the challenges in front of you, and to the opportunities they represent. Reap the rewards of focusing your power where it matters most.

— Ralph Marston

August 8

All of it is magic

Green leaves dance with violet flowers in a gentle breeze. Cool water sings without ceasing as it cascades through the rocky riverbed.

Delicate white clouds glide across a dome of brilliant blue. Everywhere, all the time, the genuine magic of life emerges into awareness.

There are things you can never know, and yet you know them so well. There are places you’ve never been, where you always long to return.

The silent shadow of a hawk floats across the afternoon. If you let it, life will amaze you, even when it doesn’t.

The silence, the commotion, brilliance and darkness, all have their parts to play. A baby is born, a galaxy explodes, some things we understand, some we don’t, and all of it is magic.

Let the magic fill you so much it spills out from you all the time. It is at the very heart of who you truly are.

— Ralph Marston

August 9

Endless abundance

Live this day in awe. Live this day with love, gratitude, respect, and kindness.

Point your awareness toward all that is good and right about the people and situations you encounter. Open your mind, your heart, your spirit to the highest possibilities in each moment.

Let go of whatever separates you from the peace that lives within. Remember always to make good use of your power to learn, to think, to choose, to act.

Invest your energy in thoughts, feelings, and actions that enrich the lives around you. Take time to fully experience how good it is to be.

Invite serenity into each moment, each thought, encounter, and activity. Live with intention, confidence, and loving purpose.

Go beyond limitations that seem so real but that exist only on the surface. Dive deeply into the endless abundance that flows from the truth of who you are.

— Ralph Marston

August 10

Avoid regret

The best way to deal with regret is to avoid creating it in the first place. If you know you’ll regret it, don’t do it.

In fact, a great way to make choices is to ask yourself whether or not you will regret it later. Words that have been spoken cannot be unspoken, and actions that have been taken cannot be taken back.

Yet you can always contemplate those words and actions before you commit to them. You can envision the long-term effects they will have.

Regret, once created, never completely goes away. Choose, as often as possible, not to create it to begin with.

Rather than being burdened with regret, you can be filled with satisfaction for the life you’re living. Rather than facing difficult consequences for the choices you’ve made, you can be enjoying magnificent rewards.

Make regret your friend by making it preventative rather than punitive. Think long into the future before you act, and live a life with no regrets.

— Ralph Marston