Daily Motivator - May

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May 15

Feeling overwhelmed

Do you feel overwhelmed by all that must be done? Let that feeling go right now, and start actually making progress.

Yes, absolutely, there is much to do. But you won’t get any of it done by complaining, bragging, wondering, fretting, worrying about being overwhelmed.

Achievement does not come from feeling overwhelmed. Achievement comes from action.

Two minutes of action accomplishes infinitely more than ninety minutes, or a day, or a month of feeling overwhelmed. Start with just those two minutes and go from there.

Action immediately changes your focus. Action takes you from feeling overwhelmed to being in charge.

You won’t get it perfect and you won’t get it all done right away. What your action will do, is make progress, and that’s a great feeling you can continue as long as you wish.

-Ralph S. Marston

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May 16

Decide, and do

Life demands decisions. If you don’t decide, someone, something, some event beyond your control will decide for you.

Decisions can be terribly difficult to make. But not making a decision is much worse.

Even a decision that’s less than ideal gives you the ability to move forward. Even when a decision does not work out well, it keeps you in control and enables you to adjust.

It’s easy and understandable to put off making a decision. It’s much better, though, to decide.

The more decisions you make and follow through on, the better your decisions become. Make the decision, put it into action, learn, adjust, repeat.

You can do great, amazing things when you have a well-defined path to follow. So go ahead, decide, and do.

-Ralph S. Marston

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May 17

Make life the best

Progress doesn’t just happen because you wish for it. Progress comes about when you work to create it.

To improve the output, improve the input. To improve what you get, improve what you do.

Make positive, empowering changes to your environment. Stay away from people who drag you down, and get yourself around those who challenge, inspire, motivate, fascinate you.

Raise your expectations of yourself, and of others, then exceed those expectations. Raise your level of engagement, your discipline, your commitment, focus, awareness.

When effort is called for, make extra effort. When something must be done, or can be done, find a way to get it done, then go beyond it.

The beauty in each moment begs you to create new greatness. Answer the call, and invest yourself fully in making life the best you know it can be.

-Ralph S. Marston

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May 18

Peaceful presence

Be a peaceful presence in the world. Be a peaceful presence in your own life.

A peaceful presence gives you power without draining your effectiveness. A peaceful presence is purposeful without being obsessive.

Let go of worry and let in acceptance. Let go of anxiety and let in positive effort.

Peacefully transform frustration into energy and inspiration. If anger gets you going let it be peaceful purpose that keeps you moving.

Be at peace with what has happened before, and you can direct all your resources to what will happen next. Rise above the envy, resentment, retribution that would steal your power.

Frame each response, each action with a peaceful presence. Let peace give maximum power to all you do.

-Ralph S. Marston

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May 19

Stop and consider

When you feel yourself struggling to get what you don’t really want, stop. And consider what an exquisite miracle you already are.

If you catch yourself complaining that things are not going your way, think for a moment. And see that everything that is, can be put to positive purpose.

If you’re consumed with worrying that you might lose it all, gently and lovingly calm your thoughts. Realize that what truly has value can never be taken away.

When you’re tempted to blame others for all of your troubles, take a step back. And understand that the way to control your own destiny is to take full responsibility for your life.

Before you let fear hold you prisoner, remember this. You can learn from the fear, you can use it to more fully prepare, and you can then move confidently ahead.

Before you allow any person, thought, feeling, event or situation to get you down, take a deep breath and consider. This moment is still unfolding, and you can choose right now to make life better than it has ever been.

-Ralph S. Marston

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May 20

Small changes

Small changes can make a big difference when applied over time. Make a small positive change, then stay with it, and time works in your favor.

Small changes are easy to implement, and just as easy to abandon. So when you make a small change, you must also make a big commitment.

Most of life’s progress is not made in big, highly consequential leaps. Achievement most often comes from taking one small positive step, then another and another.

There is some small change you can make today that can make your life significantly better a year from now. Make it, and most importantly, stick with it.

Stick with it by constantly reminding yourself why. Stick with it by staying focused on your purpose.

You have the ability right now to make a small change that will eventually lift your whole world. Make a positive change, stick with it and stay focused, reaping more and more benefits as life unfolds.

-Ralph S. Marston

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May 21

Make yourself stronger

It doesn’t take much time to become stronger than you are. What it takes is embracing challenge, and making effort, and you can do that.

Improvement is one decision, one action away. The improvement will continue as long as you choose.

No matter how much or how little strength you already have, you can make yourself stronger beginning now. You can become more capable, experienced, resilient, effective, from right where you are, using what you have.

Don’t let yourself fall into the old, tired excuses. Make the commitment to make yourself stronger.

You deserve a life of expanding richness and fulfillment. You owe it to yourself, every day, to build on whatever you already have, to create unique, meaningful value out of each experience.

New strength is yours to build in every moment. Take action, grow stronger, and use your strength to continue adding new goodness to life.

Ralph Marston

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May 22

Deal with life

You’ll often be tempted to take the easy way out. Do your future self a big favor, and remember that the easy way is almost never the best way.

Even when you feel like quitting, you have the strength to keep going. Even when the work is difficult and demanding, you can get it done.

Cutting corners now creates even bigger problems later. Being less than honest with yourself or others only magnifies the power of a difficult truth that will eventually be unavoidable.

Success, achievement, fulfillment, and satisfaction are never reached by avoiding life’s demands. Instead, call upon yourself to fully deal with life as it unfolds.

Much of the work of living is not fun or glamorous or convenient. Yet what makes life good at its deepest level is when you rise to the challenges as they appear.

Use your strength, deal with life, and add to its rich and magnificent substance. Make yourself always thankful for the way you’ve lived each moment.

0Ralph S. Marston

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May 23

Away from the frenzy

Just because it is possible to live day after day at a blistering pace, doesn’t mean it is preferable. You don’t always have to get more, do more, have more, to live richly.

Fulfillment is about quality and meaning, not simple quantity. Fill your life, but don’t pack it so tightly you can’t breathe.

Effort, industriousness and achievement bring great value to life. Yet quiet, thoughtful times can be just as enriching as busy, productive periods.

There’s no point in having everything if you do not take the time to enjoy anything. Take the time, breathe, savor, give goodness a chance to sink in.

Don’t delay, don’t procrastinate, but don’t make everything into a race. If you miss the green light there will be another, and time before it to catch your breath.

Life is much too magnificent to rush through it. Step away from the frenzy, and truly get ahead.

-Ralph S. Marston

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May 24

Choose challenge

If there is no sacrifice, there is no achievement. If there is no pain, discomfort, inconvenience, challenge, there is no progress.

If you can do it by merely pushing a button, without thinking, without investing yourself, it has negligible value. Every day, you have the opportunity to do so much more.

You have the opportunity to reach deep within yourself and pull out unique goodness. It can be messy, frustrating, complicated, and crazy fulfilling.

Stride right up to the challenge. Use your wits, figure out a way to rip a hole in that challenge, step into it, work your way to the other side.

Learn to do what you’ve never done before, to think what you’ve never thought before. Let your fear teach you, and prepare you to do what you fear.

Choose challenge as your path forward. Work through your greatest challenges and they will lead you to your greatest achievements.

-Ralph S. Marston

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May 25

Constant improvement

Don’t depend on what you’ve already done to sustain you. Embrace the opportunity to exceed your past achievements.

Give yourself the satisfaction of persistence, of growth, of constant improvement. You’ve done good work, and now you can do even better.

Keep going, keep growing, keep improving, and see yourself go far beyond limits you once thought were impenetrable. Don’t stop, or complacency will quickly catch you.

You’re alive, aware, able, purposeful, so continue to act like it. Your life right now is too full of potential to waste it reliving past glories.

You have more experience, more knowledge, more wisdom than ever before. Just imagine what you can now do with it all.

Whatever the past has been, now can be better. Put your love, joy, purpose, effort, experience and creativity into making it so.

-Ralph S. Marston

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May 26

Seamless connection

The moment you have the intention is the moment to start acting on it. Give power, commitment, persistence to your intention by giving it immediate effort.

As soon as you decide to achieve, set that achievement in motion. Prove to yourself you’re serious, and earn yourself some serious momentum, right away.

That moment when you set your intention, your passion is running at full throttle. Your sense of purpose is focused as sharp as a laser beam on the goal.

Make the most of that moment. Use it to lock yourself into action, to empower that action with deep, sustained meaning.

Achievement happens because you make it happen. Avoid delay, avoid regret, jump right into the effort, then keep it going.

Create a seamless connection between the decision and the action. That’s what transforms intention into achievement.

-Ralph S. Marston

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May 27

What would you like to see?

Imagine it is tomorrow and you’re looking back on today. What would you like to see?

Whatever it is, now is your chance to make it happen. You have one opportunity to determine how you’ll live this day, and that opportunity is right here, right now.

Every moment is a choice. When making each choice, consider how it will play out tomorrow, or a week from now, or next year.

The actions you take, and the actions you fail to take, have real and continuing consequences. Today, you can choose what those consequences will be going forward.

The way you live today determines how your life will be when you arrive at tomorrow. Make the choices that will make you thankful for your good sense.

Though this day will be over soon, what you do with its moments will echo far into your future. Realize what a powerful opportunity that is, and make something grand out of it now, while it’s here.

— Ralph Marston

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May 28

New moments

New moments are constantly arriving in your life. The only way to get value from them is to use each one as it comes.

You can transform your time into amazing achievements and experiences. Yet you cannot store up time to use it later, or borrow it from the distant future.

Always, the moment to act is the moment you are in. A wasted hour is a regrettable waste of your life’s potential.

Fortunately, instead of creating regret you can create value. Instead of letting time go unused, you can transform it into every kind of good thing imaginable.

Now is when you are alive and now is when you are able to put your life into useful action. Treasure each new moment, live it accordingly, and with that moment you will create new life treasure.

Enthusiastically embrace each bit of time as it comes. And make full, worthwhile use of it before it goes.

-Ralph Marston

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May 29

Where you belong

This is where you are, this is where you belong. And now is when you can make life richer, more fulfilling than ever before.

Shift awareness away from all the superficial trivia and into matters of your heart. Feel the abundance in which you’re already right now immersed.

What your spirit longs for is here for you to claim. In this moment is everything in the universe, and all the goodness that matters to you.

Open yourself lovingly to all you have. Give yourself fully to all you can do, now, here.

Blissfully ignore the howling complaints of ego. You have so many more meaningful things to tend to.

Whatever else you have or not, you have this moment. And within it is every possibility.

— Ralph Marston