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Daily Motivator - October
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Be glad you did Before you do anything, ask yourself a quick, simple question. A week from now, or a year from now, will you be glad you did it? It may right now seem to be a lot of trouble and expense and inconvenience. And yet it may also be a one-time opportunity that you’ll always be thankful you acted upon. Will you later be glad you did it? Then go ahead and do whatever it takes to make it happen. Or, by the same measure, will you soon come to regret what you are about to do? If that’s the case, then find something more productive, more creative, more life enhancing. You have the ability right now to determine exactly how you will feel when you look back on this day. So now, while you have the chance, make this day one that you can look back upon with great fondness and gratitude. Live this day fully in the beautiful present moment, while also keeping the future in mind. And you will indeed be glad you did. — Ralph Marston Read more: http://greatday.com/#ixzz2gT7F8XSv Read more at http://greatday.com/#YMybwvePMuleFl7q.99 |
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Often enough Persistence is really quite simple, and extremely powerful. If you don’t get it right the first time, see it not as a failure but as an opportunity for another more informed and experienced attempt. The best response to a disappointing result is more effort. Feel the disappointment, let it make you more determined, and then move quickly to a highly effective state of taking action. Do what must be done, then do it again and again, and again. Even the smallest action can have enormous impact when repeated often enough. But how can you get back up when you’ve just fallen down? You do it by reminding yourself it’s clearly the best choice, and then making the choice to act in your own best interest. Persistence is not always easy, yet it’s not particularly complicated either. You’ve made the effort before, so it’s really not such a big deal to go ahead and make it again. Do that often enough, and your actions take on great power and effectiveness. Do that often enough, and achievement is yours. — Ralph Marston Read more: http://greatday.com/#ixzz2gYvUdfJr Read more at http://greatday.com/#KdFcKfTijgasHAd2.99 |
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Let in the possibilities When you can let go of the need for something, you are much closer to attaining it. Move beyond the need, and you move into the reality of whatever you desire. By very definition, as long as you need it, you don’t have it. More to the point, as long as you see yourself as needing it, you’re not seeing yourself as having it. Choose instead to see yourself as already living the reality of whatever you wish to have in your life. Then, choose to more fully implement and express that reality each day with your thoughts, feelings, words and actions. Realize that whatever you desire is already yours in many important ways. Understand that you do not have to need it because you can already begin to live it whenever you choose. To the extent that you feel need, you fill your mind with thoughts of lack and limitation. A much more empowering choice is to lovingly and gratefully accept each day as it is, and to open yourself to the countless possibilities for fulfilling your highest desires. Let go of the needs and let in those possibilities. Let go of the needs and let your life be filled with richness and joy. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#5ylctwPT5pyQHXWu.99 |
Friday, October 4, 2013
Find the good It’s just as easy to choose joy as it is to choose despair. It’s just as easy to imagine the best that can happen as it is to imagine the worst. It’s really not so difficult to find the good in any situation. You simply have to make the decision to look with positive expectations. It is just as realistic to respond to life with positive enthusiasm as it is to respond with negativity. And it puts you in a whole lot better, more powerful place. Take a step back away from your ego. Look objectively and carefully at the way you live each moment. See that you always have a choice when it comes to your attitude, your actions, your assumptions and expectations. Then imagine arranging all those things into a highly effective positive perspective. Rather than living by habit and reaction, make the choice to live by intention. Decide that it will be a great day, a great year, a great experience, a great life, and then make it so. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#KsI1Tq7dsuyqxP5Z.99 |
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Offer peace Take what the world gives you and in return, offer peace. Let go of the wish that this moment could be different, and live it as it is, in your own sense of peace. Make the effort, but don’t make it a fight. Achieve all kinds of great, wonderful and ambitious things, and achieve them with a peaceful heart. What good is success if you must go against your own best nature to reach it? Work to succeed not through conflict, but through a peaceful, useful, helpful, loving presence. When you find yourself thinking angry, anxious, judgmental or fearful thoughts, make the choice to make a change. Challenge yourself to think from a more peaceful perspective. Offer peace to those around you, and most certainly to yourself. Experience the positive, highly effective power that comes from rising above the conflicts. In the big things, and in the small matters, offer peace to life. Experience the power that authentic peace can bring to every part of your world. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#BuTcdEuPDCV9i0xJ.99 |
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Ease your burdens Don’t make life’s difficulties even more difficult by filling your mind with resentment. Instead, ease your burdens by choosing to be truly thankful for them. If you feel resentment starting to take hold, stop and consider this. There’s nothing to be gained by bringing yourself down over what has already happened. Use the occasion to remember all the things for which you can be thankful. Rise to the challenge of seeing the positive aspects that are surely there within any troubling situation. Holding on to resentment will drain valuable energy away from you. Gratitude, on the other hand, can fill you with fresh, new positive energy. Choose to see the value in your situation. Choose to look forward with confidence instead of looking backward with resentment. Right now, there is much for which to be thankful. Focus on the positive possibilities, and find real joy in steadily bringing them to life. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/motivate/081006....iEY5TcB53ff.99 |
Monday, October 7, 2013
Love this day Love this day and it will be good to you. Treasure this opportunity to experience life, and the experience will be beautiful. The progress you seek does not always come in the ways you thought it would. Yet when you seek, and persist, and expect it, that progress does always come. Don’t let yourself become too troubled by the troubles. Remind yourself to take it all in stride, and you will find great value and richness along the way. Go forward with clear and positive intentions, seeking to make a beneficial difference for all. In whatever may happen, you will discover new ways to further your authentic purpose. In its every aspect, life is predominately the way you consider it to be. Consider it to be unique, precious, miraculous, filled with opportunity and abundance, and give each moment of your reality a positive flavor. Make the decision to love this day, this place, this moment, this special experience of life with the people around you. And there will be so very much to love. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#mLvtv0zHsJml3kZR.99 |
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Looking happy and being happy Happiness is not based on the way you appear. Happiness is an authentic state of being that you can choose. When you are truly happy, people around you will no doubt see it. Yet there’s so much more to being happy than merely looking happy. If you’re striving to impress others with how happy you are, you’re not happy at all. Let go of the striving and the needs, and allow happiness. You can be happy doing nothing. You can be happy doing anything. Happiness does not come from the situation the person is in. Happiness comes from the person who is in the situation. Be the person to allow happiness. And you can experience it at any and every time and place. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#UgesTd1PEqperpC2.99 |
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Richer and richer The way to be rich is to realize how rich you are. The way to be rich is to express and to live the unique abundance that is yours. It’s not what you get that makes you rich. It’s what you do with all you have. The way to be truly rich is to make good, meaningful use of what you have. The way to be exceptionally rich is to be generous with all that you are. The abundance of the universe is literally everywhere. What transforms that abundance into real richness is your choice to make purposeful, loving use of it. Each day is overflowing with possibilities for new richness. See the best possibilities, act on them, and find true delight in making life richer and richer. Make joyful use of each moment, and sincerely give the best of who you are. Live a life that is rich indeed. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#eLd2tOBmkj5Q49SA.99 |
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Energy of intention Life can often leave you feeling stuck or trapped in an undesirable position. Yet no matter how confining your situation may be, there is always a positive way forward. Even though your options may be very limited, you do still have some powerful choices. Even in a difficult, highly challenging situation, there are real and present possibilities for great improvement. The first thing to do is to refuse to see yourself as a victim. By taking full responsibility for your situation, you give yourself the power to change it for the better. Next, instead of fretting about the way things are, develop a clear and compelling vision of how you want your life to be. Somewhere within the realm of possibility is a realistic goal that will make things much better for you. Find that goal, focus on it, refine it, and make it so desirable that you cannot help but move toward it. Fill your awareness with your vision of a positive outcome, working enthusiastically and relentlessly to find and follow the way. You’ve spent your entire life making things happen. Take control of the energy of your intention, and get yourself where you choose to be. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#9yA38h5WEqjggw6H.99 |
Friday, October 11, 2013
Relaxing peace Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is relax. Constantly worrying about being more effective is not what makes you more effective. What makes you more effective is living with authenticity. What makes you more effective is staying focused on a meaningful purpose. Give yourself the time and space to remember the best of who you are and what you truly care about. Give yourself the benefit of a peaceful, relaxed perspective. Much of what is urgent is not particularly important. Step back from the noisy, breathless confusion and fall gently into a feeling of real peace. Take time to breathe deeply and calmly, to experience, to wonder, to love, and to live. Take time to see the goodness, and to make a little more of it. Within you is the potential for healing, relaxing peace. Let it come and let it be. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#34BTZrB7TZDZdC5o.99 |
Saturday, October 12, 2013
See the goodness What if you could eagerly look forward to the things you now resent and avoid? What if you could find genuine enjoyment in the things that now frustrate you? The fact is, you can do all that and more. Because you are in control of the way you see each and every part of your life. Just imagine the power and freedom of not being intimidated by those things that now intimidate you. Just imagine not being blinded by fear, frustration, resentment or envy. Such a powerful, effective state is well within your reach, right now. It’s just a matter of making the choice to see each thing in life from a more positive perspective. Instead of fighting against what you must do, you can be enjoying and benefiting from it. Instead of living in a world that resists you, you can be living in a world that supports you. The quality of your life is driven by the quality of your perspective. See the goodness, and that goodness will most certainly fill your world. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#ST38rbtEuf8TU1QM.99 |
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Treasure the effort Effort can be painful or it can be joyful. Which would you prefer? You can resent the tasks that you must do, and fight against them with all that you have. But what would that really accomplish, except to make you miserable? Or, you can be thankful for the opportunity to make a difference. You can put your best into whatever effort may be asked of you, and thereby enjoy a kind of satisfaction that cannot be obtained in any other way. You can choose to find real fulfillment in meeting the challenges. You can choose to experience true joy in making a worthwhile effort. The task is what it is. Your attitude is what you decide it is going to be. Treasure the effort and you’ll move effectively through it. Treasure the effort, and you’ll joyfully create solid, lasting value. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/motivate/061013....kJvCxU8YSVI.99 |
Monday, October 14, 2013
Your best day yet You are here, on this day, with dreams, desires, challenges, opportunities, and the ability to successfully deal with it all. So give this day a solid, meaningful, positive purpose and claim the great value it offers. Make the choice to make some progress in a direction of your choosing. Instead of merely letting the time pass, put life and love, substance and experience into that time. Think of what a great opportunity you have with each day that comes your way. You have the opportunity to make a difference, to truly change the world, and to live your precious life in new and joyful ways. Look back and recall the best day you’ve ever experienced, and make the choice to make this one even better. The quality of each day depends on what you put into it, so start right now to put your best into this day that you have. Instead of merely wishing for what could be or complaining about what has been, you can do something much more powerful. You can act, right here and now, to significantly raise the quality of your life experience. Today is happening, so take an active and positively supportive role. Feel your authentic purpose, live this day with that purpose, and make it the best day yet. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#MsYyY2XlGYOogO41.99 |
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Good things you deserve Living richly isn’t just for someone else. You deserve a life that’s filled with richness and joy, and you deserve to be the person who makes it happen. Good fortune isn’t just for someone else. You deserve to have good fortune, and you deserve the experience of creating that good fortune with your attitude and your efforts. You deserve to have a lucky break. So get busy and do what it takes to give yourself one. Let today be the day you stop waiting for something good to come along. Get up, get going, and make something good, valuable and meaningful out of what you already have. Go ahead and give yourself all the good things you deserve. Feel how great it feels to be positive, focused, helpful, compassionate, caring, productive and joyful. You deserve the best in life precisely because you’re fully capable of making it happen. Your opportunity to live richly is here and now, so put it to outstanding use without another moment’s delay. — Ralph Marston Read more at http://greatday.com/#7i4wUjxl7Gj5VyFu.99 |
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